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field of nursing and in particular for nursing home facilities. Valid data could put pressure on nursing homes to hire an adequate...
unethical, or illegal practice of any person" (Erlen 67). But while it is a nurses duty to be a patient advocate, Beth should real...
chemistry and another in biochemistry. I recognized the wonder of chemistry, but what I failed to recognize at the time was the s...
rheumatoid arthritis with the need to fortify ones mental and emotional status in order to deal with the chronic systemic illness....
Replicatability is one hallmark of valid quantitative research. In past years, qualitative research in nursing has been ass...
and two other men beside her patient, she becomes drawn to the patient, though not in a romantic way. She devotes nearly her entir...
least useful in nursing. The purpose here is to review the state of performance evaluation in nursing. Literature Review A...
various formal, stated ethics codes of nursing associations; nurse education programs; health care organizations; and certainly he...
in her favorite chair alone with her memories is something that those remaining behind will never know. Chosen Issue: Reminiscenc...
to examine whether womens social roles mediate the impact of heart surgery on their psychological well-being" (Plach and Heidrich,...
Irelands influence in reflective practice is now beginning to be felt around the country. Among other developments, the English N...
provided. A nurse who has back pain will likely reduce the care he or she could otherwise administer. When people have back or m...
is wheelchair bound, but nevertheless cooks for herself and shops for herself in a nearby grocery store, using her motorized wheel...
objective in conducting their study was to "describe the experience of men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer and their wives,...
experience, particularly that immigrant experience as it occurs within the modern medical environment, revolves around cultural un...
should all be considered (OConnor and Walker, 2003). Traditionally, societys influence on educational planning has meant that the...
care system. Middaugh (2003) asserts that nursing management should provide emergency planning that spells out "what people should...
states, "The nurse promotes, advocates for, and strives to protect the health, safety and rights of the patient" (Code of Ethics f...
improve it, then nursing can truly be an invaluable profession to choose. This leads us to the reality of helping people. Perha...
military personnel and other non-combatants. While McConnell was seeing her charges safely to Japan, General Douglas MacArthur was...
a little less than a third of them were under the age of 40 (Meadows, 2002, p. 46). This offered conclusive proof that number of ...
and statistics. This approach works well for in physics and math, but less well when applied to people. Moloney (2002) offers thre...
Conroy and Nottoli (1999) report the case of Henry, an irascible octogenarian who easily was the most difficult patient in the ski...
At the heart of nursing is the nurse-patient relationship, which provides the foundation for nursing care (Patusky, 2003). This r...
achieved that the critical care nurse may address the bio-psycho-social implications of the event (Alfafara and Hedges, 1996). Fur...
risk factor, but is of less consequence among those diabetics who pay close attention to their blood sugar levels, test often and ...
already has been diagnosed as having some form of heart disease. In that sense, primary prevention is not possible. The goals of...
undergoes surgery for a hip arthroplasty 24 hours after admission. Twenty-four hours after surgery the nurses note that Mrs. Gale...
Bell (2000) reports that when an Australian hospital instituted shared governance, nurse managers responded "by developing a teamw...
cross to bear and they would be shamed to bring it to someone else. The healthcare worker must not attempt to alter the patients r...