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nursing is based significantly more within the psychological components of the patient/caregiver relationship than most people rea...
fairly positive towards the 12-hour shift, but the nursing educators were extremely negative. The teaching staff opposed the use o...
from pain that began after radiation therapy that caused nerve damage (Fischman, 2000). After receiving therapy at a pain clinic, ...
gives the appearance of increased attention to theory and evidenced-based nursing in an atmosphere of caring for the individual. ...
2002 and allowed for a National Nurse Service Corps program to provide funding for tuition, expenses and a stipend to those nursin...
the realization of the "dehumanizing" of patients that led to them being referred to as "Bed x," "Case x" or some other nameless, ...
in the 19th and early 20th century, the fact is even more remarkable. "Well and Strong and Young" Updike writes that in 1854 Bar...
expressing his or her misery. Such caregivers may have experienced patients who are as likely to cry out, thrash around, or simply...
of the patients in a single unit will be assigned to one RN; the other half will be assigned to another. Another will be availabl...
or understanding when the staff or the doctors have to move on to the next client. Many patients complain that their healthcare pr...
techniques or theories as they pertain to the medical world, and it is as if the prison setting is the last place where these tech...
Today, the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that it is no longer only added stress and long hours for those...
most often have a great deal of training and, in most mainstream settings, are also nurses or nurse-midwife practitioners. Many ar...
have more opportunity to encounter difficulties involved in nursing the critically ill. "How frequently a given stressor occurs d...
individual, regardless of that individuals station in or stage of life. Todays nurse has many duties and answers to people and ad...
they are working in the field now indicates that they understand the concepts and were successful in completing the ranges of stud...
different that needs attention, but many have been able to prepare for the changes that are happening to them. Geriatric patients...
relationships, in terms of power dynamics and the initiation and resolution of conflicts. Communication theory is, therefore, impo...
In six pages this paper examines nursing care from the perspectives of nurses and patients as reported by this Australian study. ...
or other special attention to the wounds caused by burns. Each day s/he spends in the hospital is creating another reason for the...
the chaos," she said (Serafini 1490). This nurse further stated that sometimes ER nurses are called to the intensive care unit for...
This involves intensive, one-on-one teaching, which enables autistic children to learn the intricacies of behaviors or skills via ...
many of the findings of nursing research have little or no relevance to their daily practice. Im and Meleis (1999) cite several re...
information. These guidelines are also based on this researchers finding that self-care promotes the pediatric patients spiritual ...
with their illness decreases and their partners ability to help them with the process is impeded as well. Decreased communication...
ability to empower and grow people" (Gokenbach, 2003, p. 8). Over the past decade, there have been numerous studies that have fou...
interests and values considered and respected in the decision-making process" (Fly and Johnstone, 2002). This rationale is undoubt...
is a term that refers to "a formal way of thinking (i.e. conceptualizing) about a process/system under study" (Conceptual Framewor...
Aesthetic, the need for beauty, order and symmetry (Huitt, 2004). 7. Self-actualization is a plateau not all people reach. At this...
verifies old knowledge (Wilkerson, 1998). As this suggests, the continuation of scholarly advances in the development of nursing t...