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reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...
the basic paradigms of nursing professional theory are considered within a social context. For example, health is defined as a "dy...
considering this economic downturn, the numbers of undergraduates pursuing nursing careers began to also decline. In 1991, Canada ...
on an evidenced based evidence based practice and the development of increased individual accountability in the area of clinical g...
The ANCI Competency Unit 4 demands that nurses accept accountability and responsibility for their actions in nursing. To do so we...
greater demand on health care services as more of them cross that line from employed to retired. Projections are just that,...
train sufficient numbers of new nurses. Turnover is high among those who remain in the profession, and those so dissatisfied - an...
(1999), research shows that the level of education reached by an RN contributes to a sense of professional autonomy and those nurs...
lethal drug is given with the intent to bring about death, thus ending suffering" (28). Of course, there is a difference between ...
to physicians. Increasingly, "evidence-based guidelines are becoming codes of medical practice" (Healy, 2005; p. 54). Superficia...
over their blood glucose levels; and (3) encouraging continuous improvement in nursing knowledge and patient education. The progr...
a nurses role as a change agent in data base management. Fonville, Killian, and Tranbarger (1998) note that successful nurses of ...
the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...
her, per se, but rather with her expectations of Madeline, which are not age appropriate. The scenario says that Madeline knows be...
preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...
proposed method of resolution is to design, develop and evaluate a clinical, evidence-based "diabetic education program to increas...
and safety" (ANA, 2005). After all, if a nurse does not take steps to preserve her or his own safety, the nurse cannot adequately ...
in 2000, allowing a long comment period before the final rule was issued in February 2003. Five rules were published in 199...
or chronic illness; however, nurse practitioners also have additional intensive education that involves risk reduction and prevent...
help each other by merely listening and offering words of encouragement. My psychologist friend firmly believed that lifestyle ch...
runs $127 on average (Cummings, 2002). The goal of the ALF is to help senior citizens maintain as much independence as possible wi...
for the precise coding of medication in order to avoid the errors listed above (Woods and Doan-Johnson, 2002). Cohen, Robinson and...
10 years ago, the Christian Science Monitor, in covering an article about child care workers and the poverty-level wages they rece...
their own condition. Judkins and Ingram (2002) designed a self-paced learning module in order to determine whether knowledge relat...
thinks is, to a certain extent, a result of genetic influences; however, this capacity is also highly influenced by the process o...
weaker, less developed than the other. This delayed his walking, and, even after he walked successfully at age 3, it took several ...
to current medicines, or to increase their ability to be spread into the environment" (Miller-Boyle, 2006, p. 6). Miller-Boyle wri...
now regarded as a crucial and defining component of nursing, as caring defines "nursings unique area of practice and provides dire...
necessary health-related behaviors" required for meeting "ones therapeutic self-care demand (needs)" (Hurst, et al 2005, p. 11). U...
properly, nursing staff is highly aware of this lack. Research into nursing staff retention has found that the quality of housekee...