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Essays 1951 - 1980
In five pages this paper discusses women's rights and giving meaning to life as conceptualized by Florence Nightingale, the founde...
In fifteen pages this paper examines how the profession of nursing can benefit tremendously from mentoring programs. Sixteen sour...
has been with us for several years, and it is widely publicized. The result is that the nursing shortage not only affects the qua...
life needs to change in response to the patients health care needs, then the nurse needs to be sensitive to that factor as well. ...
clinical nurse specialist and the advanced nurse practitioner is decidedly hazy. However, Wickham (2003) states that a nurse worki...
has focused on two corollary components: 1. the accuracy of body size estimations and 2. the attitudes and feelings individuals ...
operations of nursing" (Horan, Doran and Timmins, 2004, p. 30). This is broken down into three basic categories: 1) wholly compen...
percent); * Management by walking around (15 percent); * Coaching/empowerment (11 percent); * Team (7 percent); * Transformational...
deaths each year are related to medications" (Meadows, 2003). The actual number is estimated to be much higher because these kinds...
as business practices, documentation systems, process flows and lines of communication can differ (Blevins, 2001) Home health nur...
staff them (Ocala, Fla., Hospitals Tackle Nursing Shortage, 2002). The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizati...
in acute care is sensitive about the use of drugs in recovering patients. Exposure of abuses of past years has raised awareness o...
today, but health care delivery appears to be more of a team project than the responsibility of one doctor. In earlier days, a nu...
the word alone that Watsons ideology is based not just upon clinical actions but upon the implementation of emotional availability...
money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely would no...
patients life needs to change in response to the patients health care needs, then the nurse needs to be sensitive to that factor a...
accomplishing the task or objective rather than on people (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004). They make the policies and rules ...
a list of advantages for patients, which include: * Greater coordination of services leads to higher quality care for the patient ...
charted component of my daily patient interaction. However, to remind myself of the other responsibilities during busy per...
"a heterogeneous disorder characterized by 2 pathogenic defects, impaired insulin secretion and insulin resistance. The resultant ...
for nurses who come into intimate contact with clients from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. Ott, Al-Khadhuri and Al-Junaibi...
are working, for example, in pediatrics(Sherman 2004). Therefore, she suggests, as many have, that the nursing professional learn ...
for protocol and for adhering to standard practice. There are many aspects of the job for which the nurse is best suited to addre...
(Link and Tanner, 2001). Research has found that some clients may be suffering from myocardial infarction (MI) even when they have...
Understanding that there is a step by step progression, both physically and psychologically, can be part of the nurses role in thi...
establish policy guidelines. In the administration of medication, "processes have been virtually ignored in the search for EBP" (...
that MCOs develop their capacity to handle changes that are driven legislatively by congressional response to public reactions to ...
how change can be effectively managed and challenges in the transformation of nursing and health care delivery. Clearly, Roys mod...
and with others interacting with the patient. Mezirow (1991) promotes the use of critical reflection in building new knowle...
criminal and social repercussions, creating a punitive response to alcoholism that can impact the views of service providers. Cha...