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also a former student of Vivians is now in the rather awkward position of also being one of her doctors, as he is an intern and re...

indicates, restraint places health practitioners between the proverbial rock and a hard place. However, there are practice standar...

for patient survival" (Kelley, 2005, p. 2). When the blood volume in the body is too low, it activates "compensatory mechanisms" t...

this aspect. Before 1939, the Canadian military women would serve as nurses during the Northwest Rebellion in 1885 as well as in t...

feel lethargic, further disinclining the individual to exercise, which escalates the problem. In regards to population, all age gr...

In 2001, health care spending as a percentage of GDP was 14.1 percent, or $5,035 per capita (Levit, Smith, Cowan, Lazenby, Senseni...

nurse seeks to preserve any culture-specific aspect of the patients life everywhere possible. When some culturally-linked aspect ...

dehydrated? Has literature simply made you aware of this potential problem? You might say something like: "Considering the dire co...

for the birth" (MacKinnon, McIntyre and Quance, 2005, p. 29). As this suggests, intrapartum nurses spend the most time with labor...

article, "Mother-Infant Skin-to-Skin Contact (Kangaroo Care)," kangaroo care offers the parents the only opportunity to engage in ...

and antibiotics" (Ersek, 2005, p. 48). Upon first glance, it would appear that euthanasia is an application that is in direct con...

degree (CBS News). Where 4.1 percent of new female nurses leave the profession after four years, 7.5 percent of new male nurses lo...

of every single employee. If youre not thinking all the time about making every person more valuable, you dont have a chance. Wh...

In five pages this research paper discusses quality care standard maintenance and the role played by nurse managers in sustaining ...

for the precise coding of medication and, thereby, helps nurses avoid the common errors listed above (Woods and Doan-Johnson, 2002...

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...

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

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

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...

parents of children with cancer regarding the needs of siblings and on the support that was offered by hospital staff. The results...

often a factor in nurse/doctor communication. Nurses can bring power to nurse/doctor interchange by harnessing the power of lang...

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

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