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

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

be immensely helpful in gaining insight into the specific issues involved and subsequent perspective on what course of action to t...

and one must wonder - Why? This article suggested the reasons have to do with physician fears of having a malpractice lawsuit file...

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

were contributing to the "toxic" work environment, which characterized this CSDU, as there was "evidence of a lack of meaningful c...

McAndrew, 2006). With communication skills there are includes skills of listening as well as tact as essential to facilitate effec...

harms the healthcare systems of the home countries of these nurses, which ethically and morally limits its use. Another method t...

with sudden flashbacks intruding on thoughts (Fagan and Freme, 2004). Other symptoms include: an exaggerated startle reflex, sleep...

of this decision. Ecological theory is an attempt to bring in many different influences in order to understand how a society ...

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...

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

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...

official entity until 1993. Today it addresses an array of nursing issues. The goals of the program are: * "Promoting quality in...

As described by Araich (2001), four nursing strategies effectively summarize how a critical care nurse can use the RAM to aid a ca...

have access to a range of drugs. Bennett (et al, 2000) argues that the overall rate of substance abuse in the nursing popualtion r...

There are numerous nursing scholars who utilizing ethnographic techniques in their research; university courses that address both ...

that I wanted to make a difference in peoples lives as well. But while my people skills are excellent and I am sure that I can e...

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...

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

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

minority groups. They are frequently poor and have little education. Scrandis, Fauchald and Radsma describe a "Charlottes Web of C...

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

a video that presents the patients symptoms and are presented with the question "What is the most likely differential diagnosis ba...

their profession to be their career and it definitely requires career-long continuous professional development. Why then, does a...