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achieved that the critical care nurse may address the bio-psycho-social implications of the event (Alfafara and Hedges, 1996). Fur...

caused by the illnesses the may then have a negative physiological backlash on the patient. For other condition it may be the ro...

experience, particularly that immigrant experience as it occurs within the modern medical environment, revolves around cultural un...

is wheelchair bound, but nevertheless cooks for herself and shops for herself in a nearby grocery store, using her motorized wheel...

the medical team with which these patients have surrounded themselves. It is the patients responsibility to cooperate and do ever...

the same sort of indirect methods that they have advocated will aid the economy. For example, the Republicans are pursuing putting...

undergoes surgery for a hip arthroplasty 24 hours after admission. Twenty-four hours after surgery the nurses note that Mrs. Gale...

and two other men beside her patient, she becomes drawn to the patient, though not in a romantic way. She devotes nearly her entir...

industry and primary care access; homecare access; and the new legislation proposed in regards to the entire health human resource...

and more nurses are standing at the front lines of managed care, acting somewhat as liaison between the patient and managed care o...

health of the individual and to their success in recuperation. The Association for Spirit at Work is comprised of medical profess...

that make use of color, but even these efforts have not typically met with good response by patients or hospital administrators (S...

grounds that it is not caring at all but rather reduces the patient to a process component that needs medical attention. While tr...

The non-technical interpretation of the results of a study is presented and assessed in the Discussion section. The Introduction ...

indwelling foley and compression boot. Her dressing is dry and intact. She was discharged with Percocet 5mg q6. Analysis and Out...

in the heart and nervous system, or in some cases, death (WHO, 1996). While health promotion relating to STDs may be a global mis...

This is significant to nursing because nurses have to learn to insert and remove the catheter from the patient which is sometimes ...

the problem and to eliminate it where possible. Nester (1998) quantifies the extent of the problem relating that an estimated 1,2...

cosmic forces: they comprise the primal and universal psychic energy yet are overlooked * We have to treat our "self" with gentlen...

goes way beyond the paradigm of nursing as simply a "handmaiden" to physicians. The nursing professional is required to know virtu...

that caring is good. Some nurses might object to allowing themselves the luxury because it makes them vulnerable, but in some prof...

Hendersons definition of the Orem model as being the "practice of activities that individuals initiate and perform on their own be...

How governments accomplish this purpose, of course, varies considerably. In Great Britain, the government via the National Health...

In seven pages this paper presents a case scenario featuring a nursing care situation and possible change of employment environmen...

prevention. Today, researchers are not disregarding the genetic component, but see this component as working in conjunction with o...

making a critical separation between their medical and social responsibilities within the short time allowed in an office visit. ...

issues along a continuum of health and good health is defined as a "state of complete physical, mental and social well-being" (Ada...

By addressing this need, which includes rehabilitation designed to aid her mobility, nursing intervention can also have a positive...

prompts nurses to cultivate the "conscious intent to preserve wholeness; potentiate healing; and preserve dignity, integrity and l...

between a patient and a doctor in a community practice setting" (Manias, 2010, p. 934). However, this scenario is no longer the mo...