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to a patient over the phone and trying to convey the urgency of that patient coming in for a consultation. The patient resists, so...

(Webber). This does sound extremely similar to the way in which the AACN defines the CNL role. In some hospitals, nurse practiti...

"chronic, heavy drinking" (Enoch and Goldman, 2002, p. 192). According to government standards, a woman is at-risk for heavy drink...

discuss and name the various methods for preventing the transmissions of STIs; and also, they will demonstrate ability to resist p...

(CNY, 2007). Talk to an informant; problems and strengths : Naturally this writer/tutor was not in a position to find an inform...

this condition. If the student does not have asthma, the student may feel motivated to help this population because of he/she rea...

caring; 2. every human culture has lay (generic, folk or indigenous) care knowledge and practices and usually some professional ca...

assisting registered nurses (RNs) in order to meet legislated requirements (Schaefer 9). This means that while RNs have fewer pati...

is in charge of all domestic affairs. Younger newly wed couples will often live with one set of parents, even if they are going to...

(2005), in which samples of patients or patients families were enrolled. In a study in which the sample participants had lost a lo...

change and its rationale (which was based on the results of empirical research), implemented the change and then "supported the c...

the effect of music on preoperative anxiety and postoperative pain with a participant group that listened to "peaceful pan flute m...

more on intuition and to "a hidden knowledge that is not so open to cognitive description" (Bradshaw, 1995, p. 83). In other words...

the fever? Was it related to an infection in the surgical wound? Was the patient developing atelectasis and pneumonia? Or, was the...

meals to all Orthodox Jewish patients should be investigated by hospital administrators if they are not already in place. Furtherm...

diabetic education that uses the Neuman Systems Model, which supports and facilitates taking a "holistic view of people with diabe...

safeguard and monitor the public health, which means that it formulates prevention initiatives, investigates health problems and a...

many other disorders. Given the prevalence of both ADD/ADHD and Depression, this user linked to each of these disorders. The ADD/A...

hospitals. Under her wings, she took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to hea...

once again examines how nurses can be empowered, and learn those values in college. Finally, Ann Gallagher discusses dignity with ...

results are reliable and representative (Curwin and Slater, 1996). The first is the profiling of the samples to show that they are...

Nursing (Webber, 2007). However, this is not a long-term solution. The long-term solution to achieving an adequate nursing force f...

events (Owen, 2007). This action includes "presentation of antigen by dendritic cells" as well as the "degranulation of mast cells...

2004). As errors are inevitable, in order to significantly reduce the rate at which they occur, it is imperative that mistakes sho...

arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways and all other products of human work and thought..." (Purnell, 2005, p. 7). It is the eth...

cardiac monitor, a seizure, drug reaction or other sign of a critical condition...(They) are expected to fill out reports" that we...

system," since the institution of mandated nursing ratios, and also that data shows California hospitals have not only been able t...

the prevalence of UI was high in this region of the country and particularly high among African Americans in two of the states, wh...

factors" (Hader and Guy, 2004, p. 21). The international Association for the Study of Pain and the American Pain Society define pa...

to the medications needed to ensure their health. Beginning in 2004, Medicare began to offer aid, $600 a year, for covering the co...