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reality of the profession. It needs a makeover much as it had in the 19th century in Brittan when nursing reformers struggled to h...
to individuals connected by a blood tie. However, to be a "family," members must "live in close contact, care for one another, an...
is not an expectation based on fact or knowledge, it is based on hope. 2. Clinicians personal and professional values Personal ...
for my patients. Personal philosophy of nursing: Tourville and Ingalls (2003) offer a fascinating and very apt analogy to descri...
influences can be broken down into political, economic, social and technological. Political influences are one of the most importa...
between cases at the time of diagnosis (Newmark and Anhalt, 2007). Type 1 diabetes is typically due to a "lack of insulin producti...
had pushed through legislation mandating mandatory medical error reporting (Hosford, 2008). Additionally, and perhaps more importa...
care system. In 2004, Dr. David Brailer, pursuant to an presidential executive order, announced the Strategic Plan for Health Inf...
to take expensive prescription medications as prescribed. This acerbates medical conditions and results in increases in acuity lev...
recognized categories for APNs within this state (TBoN, 2006). The scope of practice for Tennessee APNs includes the legal abili...
are told what they should do by their physicians. For example, if a patient visits a doctor and due to age parameters, he or she w...
often impacts the health and well-being of other members in a family (Miami Valley Hospital, 2004). As a result, the Womens Healt...
Have you had any experience in helping a friend or family member manage diabetes? The patient replied that she was not aware of...
to nonadherence to medication in the mentally ill elderly is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connot...
result in septic shock. Of that 200,000, approximately half result in death due to the onset of sepsis and the subsequent septic ...
"many emotional, medical, and practical needs. These needs change over time, depending on the trajectory of...
preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...
care model is highly useful with the elderly and those recovering from surgery or illness. Self care is not an issue that enters ...
affect patient outcomes (Finley, 2004). The degree to which Mr. Smith will be affected by the stroke, and, indeed, his very survi...
ensuring that a significant proportion of stroke victims survive and retain their independence. This is important not only from th...
by practicing nurses in this area. Both of the authors also hold advanced degrees: one holds a Masters degree and teaches at a co...
student--in respect to hospitalization. One question that also arises is whether the culture of the non-English speaking patient p...
Over twice as many people have been infected with HIV than was initially projected; over 42 million people have been infected sinc...
the mid-1990s and later. The hospitals purpose in implementing the PCDM was to decrease costs of both operation and labor, while ...
practitioner surgeries are run by practice nurses, only making referrals to other members of the healthcare team when required, Th...
a total of more than $4,000 for every citizen of the country (Grumbach and Bodenheimer, 1994). Plagued by overspending for years,...
there was a problem of infections in long-term care facilities and in hospitals (Dimond, 1994). These are called nosocomial infect...
protection. It seems that the purpose of the old system was typical as the facility needed communications. However, in health care...
not want his father informed), presenting a rationale for signing a health care proxy becomes extremely problematic. Guidelines us...
sense that it is actively intended to cause harm, but negligence occurs when it is established that any reasonable person would ha...