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make a real difference. In helping professions, such leadership is desirable. The health care industry today is fraught with probl...

condition, her lack of awareness of her own limitations or lack of limitations in activity, and her response to various types of p...

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...

appears a simple enough way in which to establish the particular approach toward pain management for a given patient. However, re...

positive effect in preventing future incidence of violence (Willson, McFarlane, Lemmey and Malecha, 2001), even when other referra...

and more nurses are standing at the front lines of managed care, acting somewhat as liaison between the patient and managed care o...

In four pages a hypothetical situation is considered in which a conflict commences in an ICU between a healthcare assistant and a ...

the near future, however. This presents potentially severe consequences for the economics of elder care. The stakeholders in this...

Medical Center, 2002). It is estimated that 13 to 18 million adults suffer from incontinence at some time or other (Mercy Medical...

to believe that his strategy for paying the hospitals bill for treatment to be a sound one. He had sued the local trolley line (a...

The funding agency chosen for this program is the Childrens Aid Society, a nonprofit organization that has been dedicated to impro...

had to have gone through surgery (orthopedic, gynecological, urological, vascular) of at least twenty minutes in duration. They ha...

addressing specific phenomena or concepts and reflecting practice (Liehr and Smith, 1999). The grand theories of nursing, that is,...

All of these studies reflect empirical studies of hospital populations in an effort to determine how changes in the healthcare env...

and certainly health care facilities. In essence, the minimum requirements of nursing dictate that: * the nurse remain cognizant ...

the educational setting, and considers the role of school nurses. At a time when an increasing number of students are receiving s...

MEDMARX is thought to be the most comprehensive reporting of medication error information in the nation (Morantz & Torrey, 2003). ...

surgery. Preventing such intense pain often requires less drug use than does alleviating the pain once it has begun (Siwek, 2001)...

domestic violence is to, first of all, screen for domestic violence with all injured patients. When screening for abuse, Flitcraft...

on a global scale. Therefore, for nurses to succeed in the complex world of the twenty-first century, many authorities feel th...

of pregnancies, pending on the population and the definitions used (Walker, 2000). Hypertension in pregnancy is typically classi...

the restrained person and others. This implies that the force used in restraining the person is less injurious to all concerned th...

In thirty pages this paper discusses elderly care in a discussion of nursing, holistic care, communications, and local policies, a...

In eight pages this report considers HIV and AIDS in youth and the medication compliance issues as they relate to nursing interven...

the problem and to eliminate it where possible. Nester (1998) quantifies the extent of the problem relating that an estimated 1,2...

...purpose of this study was to describe the process of bearing illness and injuries among individuals with catastrophic illnesses...

both for nurses and their patients, meaning that nurses experience and deal with stress in a variety of directions and settings. ...

well as to demonstrate projections for use in future planning for nursing paradigms to address depression in elderly populations. ...

quality of life represents the extent to which an individual can continue living his or her normal existence without the overwhelm...

In fourteen pages the past decade of changes in US health care and nursing are discussed in terms of funding and other issues of r...