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balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...

also as a result of the environment in which they are cared for, where smoking is banned. Teaching patients may be seen as a funct...

reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...

In three pages this research paper discusses how humor can be a modality that assists nurses in patient care as well as self care....

Sharon Bernier, RN, PhD and President of the National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing, points out that Aikens study also...

which resulted in 47 practices taking part and two of these having two patients. The sample : 98 (75 male) consecutive patients w...

disagree with his wife could disrupt their marital relationship at a time when he needs this support, which is undoubtedly one of ...

an adolescent client (Wallis, 2004, p. 59). Data on the development of abstract reasoning skills, as well as of the "recognition o...

prepared for this role" (McKenna, 1997, p. 87). Perhaps most significant of all was Florence Nightingales belief that env...

critique of this study will both summarize and analyze the various sections of Coetzees article, which describes this research, a...

also a former student of Vivians is now in the rather awkward position of also being one of her doctors, as he is an intern and re...

ventilation. This included placing hip pads with egg crate foam under the patients iliac crest to prevent hyperextension of the lo...

characteristics of metal disorders may include abnormalities in cognition, mood or emotions; it may include abnormalities in integ...

the nGMS as an assessment instrument. This computer program provides a check list that the nurse can use to cover all pertinent in...

the KA familys ability to utilize US healthcare systems (Donnelly, 2005). KA parents experience with schizophrenia in their chil...

In ten pages this research paper presents a literature review on team nursing as a way of increasing patient satisfaction. Thirte...

parents of children with cancer regarding the needs of siblings and on the support that was offered by hospital staff. The results...

that is, whether it will spread (metastasize) and what symptoms that it is likely to cause (Cancer diagnosis, 2005). The term "sec...

the needs of the dying and her work indicates that there are times when the most meaningful communication that a nurse can offer i...

frequently use mental health nurses as a means for expanding services (Winefield and Chur-Hansen, 2004). The following examination...

Developing Clinical Guidelines by Allen et al (1997) set out to determine the disparities that exist within the resolution process...

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

In five pages this research paper discusses quality care standard maintenance and the role played by nurse managers in sustaining ...

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

differences between these two classifications are then described and three factors that are believe to influence the formation of ...

which initiates a series of events that will either successful contain the infection or prompt it progression toward active diseas...

that are often incurred as a natural part of the aging process (Wang and Wollin, 2004). These changes include "impaired vision and...

nurses as they engage in diagnostic, prescriptive, and regulatory operations of nursing" (Horan, Doran and Timmins, 2004, p. 30). ...

critical matters, employee requests for information often go unanswered for too long. Results can and have been employee frustrat...

In six pages the role of nurses in the patient process of dying is considered in two scenario types that also involves caring for ...