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for the precise coding of medication and, thereby, helps nurses avoid the common errors listed above (Woods and Doan-Johnson, 2002...
in those nursing homes that maintained adequate staffing, but beyond that, the administrative climate of the nursing home facility...
take to the streets rather than cope with abuse, violence or parental drug addiction. Also, as indicated above in regards to alcoh...
currently has 9 major nursing schools, which include the University of Pennsylvania (one of the most renowned facilities in the Un...
legal errors (Fackelmann, 2002). Furthermore, the AMA study demonstrated that there is a direct statistical connection between th...
with "depression, sleep disturbance, fatigue, and decreased overall physical and mental functioning" (Hearn, 2001). Problem Stat...
the educational setting, and considers the role of school nurses. At a time when an increasing number of students are receiving s...
have "little or no training in fundamental management skills" (Baer, 2006, p. 60). As well as absenteeism, problems with managemen...
Roughly 50 percent of the current working nursing population will retire within the next 15 years (Mee and Robinson, 2003). Adding...
Not only are the direct health impacts to the nurse deleterious, impaired nurses cannot meet their responsibility to provide top q...
due to a number of reasons. First of all, the average age of the population is getting progressive older. As a people. America, an...
Social Services they have complained that that funding is insufficient to provide for even their most basic dietary needs. Part o...
accomplish beneficial behavioral change. As Kurt Lewins pioneering work with change theory points out, any change initiative ent...
make a real difference. In helping professions, such leadership is desirable. The health care industry today is fraught with probl...
their own condition. Judkins and Ingram (2002) designed a self-paced learning module in order to determine whether knowledge relat...
the risk of medical errors, such as dispensing the wrong medication or the wrong dose (Nursing overtime, 2004). The study, which w...
if the individual discovers that he or she has thoughts and feelings that are "very basic and very strong" with regard to others o...
for registered nurses by 2010 (Feeg 8). While statistics such as these have received a great deal of press, what is less well kno...
have access to a range of drugs. Bennett (et al, 2000) argues that the overall rate of substance abuse in the nursing popualtion r...
In a paper of six pages, the author writes about research on the problem of workplace violence against nurses. The studies used i...
essential to being able to maintain the necessary nursing workforce and ensuring the delivery of care. These researchers maintain...
The same results were not seen for boys. Shaya and colleagues conducted a similar study in 2008. The results of the empirical re...
percent of that total population lose their ability to walk (Tonarelli, 2010). Hip injuries and falls of any kind can reduce the ...
provided. A nurse who has back pain will likely reduce the care he or she could otherwise administer. When people have back or m...
Medical Center, 2002). It is estimated that 13 to 18 million adults suffer from incontinence at some time or other (Mercy Medical...
that nurse is guilty of doing something unethical. Nurses must impose a high standard of care in the office, hospital or home sett...
or state agencies may seek and implement studies. II. Nursing Home Care for the Elderly Whenever nursing home care is an...
How governments accomplish this purpose, of course, varies considerably. In Great Britain, the government via the National Health...
(2002). The purpose of this investigation is to provide an overview of the concept of immobility in medicine, with an emphasis on...
is not being replaced by individuals wishing to go into nursing or the health care environment. This has been shown by a slow decr...