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Beginning in the early 1990s, managed care targeted nursing as an expenditure where hospitals could cut costs. Managed care consul...

absence of disease and infirmity" ("Definitions of Health and Fitness," 2006). Health promotion, on the other hand, " is the combi...

ventilation. This included placing hip pads with egg crate foam under the patients iliac crest to prevent hyperextension of the lo...

much closer look at the unwise choice to allow HIV-positive nurses to continue their practice. Britain provides statistics that i...

which means that the homeless population in Vancouver encompasses roughly 1800 people (The Americas, 2004). They are virtually all...

characteristics of metal disorders may include abnormalities in cognition, mood or emotions; it may include abnormalities in integ...

the nGMS as an assessment instrument. This computer program provides a check list that the nurse can use to cover all pertinent in...

and in 2001 unofficially took over daily operations of Johnson & Johnson as he was being trained to succeed Ralph Larsen upon his ...

The reason is that the hospital has been unsuccessful in recruiting an adequate number of qualified nurses. Ultimately, the blame...

Partially as a result of improved heath care practices which result in longer life and partially as the result of the movement aw...

is defined as the needs of that individual to meet "Universal self-care requisites associated with life processes and maintenance ...

the KA familys ability to utilize US healthcare systems (Donnelly, 2005). KA parents experience with schizophrenia in their chil...

discipline of nursing (Wilkerson, 1998). Examination of nursing theory shows that, on a fundamental level, nursing theories provid...

In ten pages this research paper presents a literature review on team nursing as a way of increasing patient satisfaction. Thirte...

regards to lung function. If patients cannot breath on their own, RTs are trained on how to intubate patients and connect them to ...

but fully 60 percent of charts of reporting skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) make no mention of any behavioral interventions prio...

ability has improved considerably, inasmuch as the decisions I now make are more analytical and based upon a broader and more dive...

education for nurses in the US followed the model established by modern nursings founder Florence Nightingale (Fitzpatrick 63). Th...

all areas of professional nursing. Provisions 1 through 3 address the principal obligations of nursing, which are to the patient/c...

does not address the topic of specific competencies. In other words, the most recent literature that is even remotely related to t...

methods with measurable outcomes, creating a link between existing research and nursing process, define the role of nurse educator...

is designed to ensure that "Patients have access to needed care" and that healthcare providers are "free to practice medicine with...

period of restructuring in many industries, including healthcare. Managed care organizations and changes in reimbursement rates f...

and how discharge instructions should cover these contingencies. "Health" has historically been used to describe the "absence of d...

This PowerPoint presentation includes 9 slides plus a bibliography. The topic is the nursing shortage. Bibliography lists 1 sourc...

increase; third-party payers strive to keep payments as low as possible; individuals seek to enhance performance or gain the great...

and the spirit says, "Ahhh, everything feels much better now" (Wooten, 2005, p. 510). Another factor in her relationships with c...

to current medicines, or to increase their ability to be spread into the environment" (Miller-Boyle, 2006, p. 6). Miller-Boyle wri...

now regarded as a crucial and defining component of nursing, as caring defines "nursings unique area of practice and provides dire...

any incident that requires an increased level of response beyond the routine operating procedures" (NASN, 2006). Natural disasters...