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that the doctrine of informed consent is "hopelessly flawed--or at least misguided," as it is often not possible to truly inform ...
Sharon Bernier, RN, PhD and President of the National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing, points out that Aikens study also...
the basic paradigms of nursing professional theory are considered within a social context. For example, health is defined as a "dy...
runs $127 on average (Cummings, 2002). The goal of the ALF is to help senior citizens maintain as much independence as possible wi...
in 2000, allowing a long comment period before the final rule was issued in February 2003. Five rules were published in 199...
or chronic illness; however, nurse practitioners also have additional intensive education that involves risk reduction and prevent...
help each other by merely listening and offering words of encouragement. My psychologist friend firmly believed that lifestyle ch...
In three pages this research paper discusses how humor can be a modality that assists nurses in patient care as well as self care....
is a very important consideration in nursing. Indeed, some four thousand of so documents were published annually about pain in th...
be more enlightening and convey a more precise meaning than an extended descriptive passage. At this point, the student researchin...
their own condition. Judkins and Ingram (2002) designed a self-paced learning module in order to determine whether knowledge relat...
on diabetes into categories and addresses these topics on separate web pages, as does the first site. The homepage explains that t...
"significant anxiety, particularly before they discover the most effective symptom management" (Moloney, et al, 2001, p. 19). In o...
define what other mechanisms are brought into the healing process. For example, Gordon et al (2002) argue that depending on the v...
are often called upon to provide comfort where there seems to be none, patience in the face of adversity, and grace under fire. Th...
is understandable given that MRSA is one of the primary threats in terms of diseases encountered in ICUs in the US. Over fifty pe...
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...
At the heart of nursing is the nurse-patient relationship, which provides the foundation for nursing care (Patusky, 2003). This r...
objective in conducting their study was to "describe the experience of men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer and their wives,...
is wheelchair bound, but nevertheless cooks for herself and shops for herself in a nearby grocery store, using her motorized wheel...
should all be considered (OConnor and Walker, 2003). Traditionally, societys influence on educational planning has meant that the...
the elderly. The Nurse Practitioner announced in its July 2000 issue that reports of the AMAs petition had been received as...
caused by the illnesses the may then have a negative physiological backlash on the patient. For other condition it may be the ro...
experience, particularly that immigrant experience as it occurs within the modern medical environment, revolves around cultural un...
the educational setting, and considers the role of school nurses. At a time when an increasing number of students are receiving s...
in terms of the diagnosis and the aggregate. Discussion of Nursing Diagnosis The nursing diagnosis for this study, kno...