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services. It was a clear presumption that womens contributions -- no matter how physically or mentally trying -- did not carry an...

is on a morphine drip to which there is attached only one instruction: decrease the drip when respirations reach four per minute....

as the "Angel of Mercy" during the late 19th century; the "Gal Friday" during the 1920s and the "Heroine" during World War II (Bro...

a deleterious impact to patient welfare. With appropriate conflict resolution skills, however, most conflict can be either avoide...

brief excursion into heterosexuality twenty years earlier, who Armand and Albert raised. Son Val (Dan Futterman) does not share A...

Rhoads essay on the life and experiences of a nurse in Vietnam gives a chilling clarity of the realities with which medical person...

surgery. Preventing such intense pain often requires less drug use than does alleviating the pain once it has begun (Siwek, 2001)...

(LPNs) and aides all worked together. The RNs traditionally were delegated to decide upon the division of labor between members of...

well as to demonstrate projections for use in future planning for nursing paradigms to address depression in elderly populations. ...

Frank seems reluctant to leave. Realizing that Frank needs to be met on a different level, Susan switches back to the "Be-with" mo...

In seven pages this paper presents a case scenario featuring a nursing care situation and possible change of employment environmen...

underlying the formulation of the nurse-patient relationship. According to Mallik (1998) a great deal of the literature on this to...

York University School of Nursing and became an advocate of the practice through her teaching of therapeutic touch techniques and ...

expenses, the learning contract is a device used by those involved - the student, the school and any other interested parties - to...

...purpose of this study was to describe the process of bearing illness and injuries among individuals with catastrophic illnesses...

new heart patient may need to learn to radically alter its diet, or the family of a new cancer patient may have to learn to cope w...

or state agencies may seek and implement studies. II. Nursing Home Care for the Elderly Whenever nursing home care is an...

abuse despite interpersonal problems or social caused brought about by drinking (Dawson, 2000). Repeated drinking of alcohol on da...

physical restraints. The authors own views combined with the findings of current literature reveal that the use of physical restr...

are ideally suited to assist patient and their families in clarifying their needs and desires, enhancing patient autonomy (Breier-...

every 30 minutes for protection, safety and placement. This was a two-part citation in that there is no evidence that staff...

For different reasons, each profession believes that the morning routine of washing and dressing is essential. Both the nurse and...

help. Many of these people have the same basic preparatory training for their work, thus, there is a great deal of duplication, i....

importance in the immediate nature of the patients problems, however. In critical care, theory can wait. Nurses need to be focus...

does not receive (or seek) health care outside of prison. The literal captive audience allows health care professionals to offer ...

Today, the theories of Orem, Roy, Neuman, Rogers, King, and others seem to be more popular than older theories such as those of Fl...

on education and prevention, and on how individual and social systems work together in the "society" of the health care industry. ...

both for nurses and their patients, meaning that nurses experience and deal with stress in a variety of directions and settings. ...

by any number of characteristics used for grouping individuals. These characteristics can include geography, relationships, cultu...

many contemporary societies still reflect incredible amounts of poverty, disease and homelessness in spite of the fact that their ...