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There are numerous nursing scholars who utilizing ethnographic techniques in their research; university courses that address both ...

the effect of music on preoperative anxiety and postoperative pain with a participant group that listened to "peaceful pan flute m...

more on intuition and to "a hidden knowledge that is not so open to cognitive description" (Bradshaw, 1995, p. 83). In other words...

many other disorders. Given the prevalence of both ADD/ADHD and Depression, this user linked to each of these disorders. The ADD/A...

hospitals. Under her wings, she took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to hea...

results are reliable and representative (Curwin and Slater, 1996). The first is the profiling of the samples to show that they are...

Nursing (Webber, 2007). However, this is not a long-term solution. The long-term solution to achieving an adequate nursing force f...

events (Owen, 2007). This action includes "presentation of antigen by dendritic cells" as well as the "degranulation of mast cells...

2004). As errors are inevitable, in order to significantly reduce the rate at which they occur, it is imperative that mistakes sho...

arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways and all other products of human work and thought..." (Purnell, 2005, p. 7). It is the eth...

cardiac monitor, a seizure, drug reaction or other sign of a critical condition...(They) are expected to fill out reports" that we...

system," since the institution of mandated nursing ratios, and also that data shows California hospitals have not only been able t...

the prevalence of UI was high in this region of the country and particularly high among African Americans in two of the states, wh...

Bell (2000) reports that when an Australian hospital instituted shared governance, nurse managers responded "by developing a teamw...

cross to bear and they would be shamed to bring it to someone else. The healthcare worker must not attempt to alter the patients r...

completing the ranges of study required to attain the licensing level each holds. Aides are not licensed individuals and may or m...

significant changes to the existing system but have not yet covered too much ground where modifications are concerned. This is pa...

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...

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

already has been diagnosed as having some form of heart disease. In that sense, primary prevention is not possible. The goals of...

undergoes surgery for a hip arthroplasty 24 hours after admission. Twenty-four hours after surgery the nurses note that Mrs. Gale...

(called IgE) (ONeill, 1990). This then sticks to other cells such as the mast cells or the basophils, this is a chain reaction as ...

the medical team with which these patients have surrounded themselves. It is the patients responsibility to cooperate and do ever...

meals to all Orthodox Jewish patients should be investigated by hospital administrators if they are not already in place. Furtherm...

safeguard and monitor the public health, which means that it formulates prevention initiatives, investigates health problems and a...

the fever? Was it related to an infection in the surgical wound? Was the patient developing atelectasis and pneumonia? Or, was the...

The result is that "Suddenly there is great interest in how men and women talk to each other" (Woodard and House, 1997; p. 39), no...

health of the individual and to their success in recuperation. The Association for Spirit at Work is comprised of medical profess...

that make use of color, but even these efforts have not typically met with good response by patients or hospital administrators (S...