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Essays 1981 - 2010
their roles. As a result, there is a need to temper the actions of the nurse in the carative environment with a recognition of th...
and the directives of the medical environment. For over two decades, for example, the health care industry has recognized a decli...
Emergency rooms are, at least in many cases, the primary health care provider to the underinsured and uninsured patient (Isenstein...
and empowerment must be mutually exclusive. Falk (1995) describes empowerment as a more contemporary concept than advocacy, and...
In nine pages this paper examines causes, symptoms, and results of patient stress in a nursing overview that includes the servant ...
"Many changes in health care yesterday, have major unforeseen consequences today. While it is easy to predict results with the be...
governor should strive to at least make a dent in the problem in the next four years. It seems that the most pertinent problems ar...
on a global scale. Therefore, for nurses to succeed in the complex world of the twenty-first century, many authorities feel th...
That freedom and responsibility can improve the nursing home experience for all involved. Definition and Clarification...
deal of pain likely will occur during the first 24 hours after surgery (Drakeford, Pettine, Brookshire and Ebert, 1991). Preventi...
be in agreement with a working definition of autonomy. Thus, the following attributes should be seen: self-determination, in...
that time. What might be needed, then, would be some plan of action that the staff could follow, or possibly some type of polite s...
patient care" (p. 438). Prior to 1970, nursing training in the UK could be described as rigid and highly structured. After...
Primary Care Act, a feature of both practices is that the patients have the option of seeing a GP or a NP as their first point of ...
their wishes for the patients care. Every nursing home resident has a right to such a plan by law (Stern), and it does not only p...
call for compliance with standardized procedures, health codes, and licensing requirements, all of which have been initiated to su...
Issues pertinent to these five elements include conceptual framework, scope of practice, policy implications and support of social...
of happiness, contentment or relief, or something above ordinary existence. The patient should do more than subsist. 4. Care shoul...
who choose to use qualitative methods tend to seek a deeper reality, inasmuch as their aim is to "study things in their natural se...
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)...
had even been stalked by patients (Global Forum for Health Research, 2000). A major study in Australia found that there is a sign...
blatant display of irreverence, with some of the worst infractions found within the health care industry. The cramped, dark and u...
(Hodges, Satkowski, and Ganchorre, 1998). Despite the hospital closings and the restructuring of our national health care system ...
domestic violence is to, first of all, screen for domestic violence with all injured patients. When screening for abuse, Flitcraft...
view of medicine in order to better help the indigenous population on which she is called to serve. Before launching any p...
to health care. Many of the same questions that can apply to assessing the validity of qualitative research can be used to ...
practitioners that do not hold an MSN degree, and the resulting population would be too homogeneous to be of any real benefit. ...
and other health care workers cope with musculoskeletal problems even in the primary care setting. A Wausau Insurance Company rep...