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active role in adult education by virtue of already having a facility full of eager learners. Some might not be aware of just how...

for my patients. Personal philosophy of nursing: Tourville and Ingalls (2003) offer a fascinating and very apt analogy to descri...

and concisely, and there are no major medical terms that might cause someone to stumble. But theres nothing really exciting to loo...

reality of the profession. It needs a makeover much as it had in the 19th century in Brittan when nursing reformers struggled to h...

(as a standard Internet page might), XBRL provides a tag to identify each individual item of data, that is computer-readable (An I...

literature and also "analysis of ICD-9-CM codes," which were reviewed by a "clinician panel," offering specific IQs that address i...

the American healthcare system, the debate concerning whether or not states should implement mandated nurse-to-patient ratios rema...

biochemistry. I recognized the wonder of chemistry, but what I failed to recognize at the time was the solid practice it gave me ...

regarded as creating obligations on others to help her exercise her rights. An inherent theme that is implied in all of the questi...

care home agencies also offer data on each service that is provided by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and acco...

breath (King, 2003, p. 24). The factors comprising the triad are "venous stasis, vessel wall damage and coagulation changes" (Van ...

nursing skill levels and patient mix" (Minimum staff levels, 2004, p. 33). However, the researchers found that a "greater total nu...

there is very little information about predisposes people to these episodes (Swann, 2006). Therefore, for the most part, nursing a...

paying salaries). Patients are going to generally go to hospitals where their doctors are - though when it comes to emergencies or...

motor vehicle crashes, substance abuse, and illegal behavior" (Visser, Lesesne and Perou, 2007, S99). Symptoms include irritabili...

and Perou (2007) report that an estimated five to eighteen percent of youth in the US are diagnosed with ADHD and most receive so...

the situation, the charge nurse might take a number of different actions in response to this information. For example, the charge ...

issues of spirituality. In essence, the parish nurse has the ability to treat the whole patient, rather than only addressing symp...

routine activities necessary to their own care. The purpose is that with a nurses direction, encouragement and initial supervisio...

Conroy and Nottoli (1999) report the case of Henry, an irascible octogenarian who easily was the most difficult patient in the ski...

the elderly. The Nurse Practitioner announced in its July 2000 issue that reports of the AMAs petition had been received as...

caused by the illnesses the may then have a negative physiological backlash on the patient. For other condition it may be the ro...

is wheelchair bound, but nevertheless cooks for herself and shops for herself in a nearby grocery store, using her motorized wheel...

and patient. Orems theory is central to much of nursing philosophy and methodology. This theory is one of three theories...

how change can be effectively managed and challenges in the transformation of nursing and health care delivery. Clearly, Roys mod...

many had very definite opinions on the matter as a whole, "none of the participants articulated what the process consisted of or h...

moment to moment as the changing patterns of shifting perspectives weave the fabric of life through the human-universe interconnec...

Understanding that there is a step by step progression, both physically and psychologically, can be part of the nurses role in thi...

charted component of my daily patient interaction. However, to remind myself of the other responsibilities during busy per...

proposed method of resolution is to design, develop and evaluate a clinical, evidence-based "diabetic education program to increas...