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advocates, providing medical treatments prescribed by physicians, and keeping accurate records of changes in patient status (Nurse...
which a person demonstrates fundamental functioning in their life environment (Jones and Kilpatrick, 1996). In other words, the c...
of a unified health care organization that included both Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH...
recognition of cultural and social influences on health care outcomes. As a result, advanced practice nurses have also become int...
In fourteen pages this research paper considers how a nursing intervention can be designed to assist adults with PTSD resulting fr...
1999). Elderly patients who are alert, and not declared incompetent, have the right to refuse treatment, which includes turning or...
individuals personal integrity, which is defined as a "sense of worth which can be conserved through consideration of cultural, et...
showing that they graduated from a nursing education program approved by the Georgia Board of Nursing or from a nursing education ...
issue of regulatory interest when attached to direct patient care (Nursing, 2004). As few nurses with no patient responsibilities...
education for nurses in the US followed the model established by modern nursings founder Florence Nightingale (Fitzpatrick 63). Th...
the very act of following the "law" (i.e., supply and demand) of economics now has exacerbated the shortage of nurses who also are...
regards to lung function. If patients cannot breath on their own, RTs are trained on how to intubate patients and connect them to ...
or chronic illness; however, nurse practitioners also have additional intensive education that involves risk reduction and prevent...
runs $127 on average (Cummings, 2002). The goal of the ALF is to help senior citizens maintain as much independence as possible wi...
is a very important consideration in nursing. Indeed, some four thousand of so documents were published annually about pain in th...
for the precise coding of medication in order to avoid the errors listed above (Woods and Doan-Johnson, 2002). Cohen, Robinson and...
the risk of medical errors, such as dispensing the wrong medication or the wrong dose (Nursing overtime, 2004). The study, which w...
in scientific reasoning that she changed the face of nursing. She made use of statistical analysis in order to demonstrate the way...
In three pages this research paper discusses how humor can be a modality that assists nurses in patient care as well as self care....
considered one of a number of high stress jobs, and stress is problematic, causing inefficiencies, high staffing turnover rates an...
when he cannot feel a pulse. A new nurse, a first year graduate, Sally enters the room, sees Long and runs out. She encounters Nur...
is simply to require that their nursing staff make up for understaffing by working mandatory overtime on a more or less permanent ...
1999). Lee and his family owned a small business and had no health or medical insurance. The family was urged to begin the process...
her, per se, but rather with her expectations of Madeline, which are not age appropriate. The scenario says that Madeline knows be...
considering this economic downturn, the numbers of undergraduates pursuing nursing careers began to also decline. In 1991, Canada ...
reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...
The metaparadigms of nursing represent common concepts that are accepted throughout the profession and across international bounda...
In five pages this research paper takes a nursing perspecitve regarding the elderly's physical changes and increased dependence th...
that the doctrine of informed consent is "hopelessly flawed--or at least misguided," as it is often not possible to truly inform ...
Sharon Bernier, RN, PhD and President of the National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing, points out that Aikens study also...