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many contemporary societies still reflect incredible amounts of poverty, disease and homelessness in spite of the fact that their ...
In eight pages this paper discusses Canada's nursing shortage problems as they pertain to the hospital environment. Eight sources...
In eight pages this research paper discusses the serious problem of controlling senior citizen infection in a nursing home setting...
In five pages this paper examines the nursing implications of IV infiltration and proposes some solutions to this problem. Six so...
has left the facility and has gone home to the comforts of home in order to spend the last days, weeks or months of their life in ...
In five pages this paper discusses the problem Philadelphia registered nurses deal with regarding sleep deprivation resulting from...
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 those nursing homes that maintained adequate staffing, but beyond that, the administrative climate of the nursing home facility...
legal errors (Fackelmann, 2002). Furthermore, the AMA study demonstrated that there is a direct statistical connection between th...
that nurse is guilty of doing something unethical. Nurses must impose a high standard of care in the office, hospital or home sett...
the educational setting, and considers the role of school nurses. At a time when an increasing number of students are receiving s...
with "depression, sleep disturbance, fatigue, and decreased overall physical and mental functioning" (Hearn, 2001). Problem Stat...
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...
currently has 9 major nursing schools, which include the University of Pennsylvania (one of the most renowned facilities in the Un...
take to the streets rather than cope with abuse, violence or parental drug addiction. Also, as indicated above in regards to alcoh...
for the precise coding of medication and, thereby, helps nurses avoid the common errors listed above (Woods and Doan-Johnson, 2002...
budget restraints. Nurses leave the profession because they are "distressed by being unable to provide quality nursing care, disgr...
support for the concept that effective leadership style is directly related to nursing job satisfaction (Kleinman, 2004a). These s...
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...
US shortage has caused many healthcare institutions to look for nurses outside their countrys borders and many nurses are leaving ...
1999). Elderly patients who are alert, and not declared incompetent, have the right to refuse treatment, which includes turning or...
Not only are the direct health impacts to the nurse deleterious, impaired nurses cannot meet their responsibility to provide top q...
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...
period of restructuring in many industries, including healthcare. Managed care organizations and changes in reimbursement rates f...