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hospital stays (Cole and Soucy, 2003). While all ICU patients have serious and potentially life-threatening conditions, those ov...
care service has been the focus of greater scrutiny. Willging (2004) asks: "Just what is assisted living? There are still too ma...
Budget cutbacks, burnout and lack of student enrollment have precluded sufficient staffing in many critical areas of healthcare. ...
stress, which causes fluctuating levels of neuro-endocrine responses (Taylor, Repetti and Seeman, 1997). To understand this concep...
not as drugs, which means that these remedies do not undergo the rigorous testing that is required for prescription medicines (He...
pressure There are three types of high blood pressure observed in children. The first type is called "white-coat" high blood pres...
HIV-positive nurses being a threat to patients and other health care workers. Research clearly supports the reality of the situat...
actions. It has been over a decade since the passage of the American with Disabilities Act (ADA), which means that the 5 and 10 ye...
stressor pileup. Therefore, in their model, they double the concepts labels, using a capital letter behind each of the original la...
of abilities that serve to engage, relieve, understand and respect the patient. The extent to which reaching for their feelings i...
identifying the uses of the concept and its defining attributes (Walker and Avant, 1995). The steps involved also include defining...
period of restructuring in many industries, including healthcare. Managed care organizations and changes in reimbursement rates f...
is designed to ensure that "Patients have access to needed care" and that healthcare providers are "free to practice medicine with...
and how discharge instructions should cover these contingencies. "Health" has historically been used to describe the "absence of d...
does not address the topic of specific competencies. In other words, the most recent literature that is even remotely related to t...
methods with measurable outcomes, creating a link between existing research and nursing process, define the role of nurse educator...
This PowerPoint presentation includes 9 slides plus a bibliography. The topic is the nursing shortage. Bibliography lists 1 sourc...
increase; third-party payers strive to keep payments as low as possible; individuals seek to enhance performance or gain the great...
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...
any incident that requires an increased level of response beyond the routine operating procedures" (NASN, 2006). Natural disasters...
and the spirit says, "Ahhh, everything feels much better now" (Wooten, 2005, p. 510). Another factor in her relationships with c...
p. 364). Due to the fact that eating behaviors tend to be established by early experience, it is important for healthy eating habi...
weaker, less developed than the other. This delayed his walking, and, even after he walked successfully at age 3, it took several ...
of family such as the one cited above. In many instances hospitals adhere to the traditional definition, which means that the poli...
explained the process further and made it clear that he would perform the catheterization, the man approved. As this indicates, fr...
inflamed, tender to the touch and evident of a small amount of pus (DAlessandro et al, 2004), becoming more painful as time progre...
the "inability to determine the meaning of illness-related events" (McCormick, 2002, p. 127). Furthermore, Chinn and Kramer (1999)...
of use) of sunscreen at the beach are important considerations. Other factors that should be assessed relative to subjective data...
FTE RN Demand Projected Growth Setting 2000 2010 2020 2000 to 2010 2000 to 2020 Total 49,200 59,900 69,600 22%...