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are often called upon to provide comfort where there seems to be none, patience in the face of adversity, and grace under fire. Th...
objective in conducting their study was to "describe the experience of men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer and their wives,...
the elderly. The Nurse Practitioner announced in its July 2000 issue that reports of the AMAs petition had been received as...
states, "The nurse promotes, advocates for, and strives to protect the health, safety and rights of the patient" (Code of Ethics f...
improve it, then nursing can truly be an invaluable profession to choose. This leads us to the reality of helping people. Perha...
military personnel and other non-combatants. While McConnell was seeing her charges safely to Japan, General Douglas MacArthur was...
a little less than a third of them were under the age of 40 (Meadows, 2002, p. 46). This offered conclusive proof that number of ...
and statistics. This approach works well for in physics and math, but less well when applied to people. Moloney (2002) offers thre...
Conroy and Nottoli (1999) report the case of Henry, an irascible octogenarian who easily was the most difficult patient in the ski...
MEDMARX is thought to be the most comprehensive reporting of medication error information in the nation (Morantz & Torrey, 2003). ...
At the heart of nursing is the nurse-patient relationship, which provides the foundation for nursing care (Patusky, 2003). This r...
reveal a steady growth in the number of nurses joining unions due to discontent" (Blankenheim 2001, p. 13). They are doing so to l...
risk factor, but is of less consequence among those diabetics who pay close attention to their blood sugar levels, test often and ...
already has been diagnosed as having some form of heart disease. In that sense, primary prevention is not possible. The goals of...
and their insurers by operating under two distinct fee schedules. Medicare requires that care providers fees be "normal and custo...
between states and federal regulation. The purpose here is to determine whether the USAF advanced nurse practitioners are "functi...
been in operation for some time, and it currently is building a retirement community of duplexes for those over 55 who do not yet ...
to a nursing facility, it should also be understood that each situation is unique. When both the family members and the staff of t...
with "depression, sleep disturbance, fatigue, and decreased overall physical and mental functioning" (Hearn, 2001). Problem Stat...
in terms of the diagnosis and the aggregate. Discussion of Nursing Diagnosis The nursing diagnosis for this study, kno...
etiology of the disease is not well understood, but substantive research suggests that individuals who suffer from ALS have mutati...
the educational setting, and considers the role of school nurses. At a time when an increasing number of students are receiving s...
my divorce are better understood in relation the traditional concept of a nuclear family. The term "nuclear family" brings to min...
to produce better outcomes for patients and improve the conduct and performance of nurses and other health care employees on a dai...
as sadness. My Dad quickly smiled and patted me on the back, but in my heart I knew that my decision would forever change the cou...
efforts and prevention methods (Erickson, 1997). Ericksons (1997) study considered the impacts of psychology and specific attit...
and empowerment must be mutually exclusive. Falk (1995) describes empowerment as a more contemporary concept than advocacy, and...
their roles. As a result, there is a need to temper the actions of the nurse in the carative environment with a recognition of th...
and the directives of the medical environment. For over two decades, for example, the health care industry has recognized a decli...
quality of a patients life, (4) implementing managed care policies that threaten quality of care, and (5) working with unethical/i...