YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Theory and Nursing
Essays 1711 - 1740
departments (Courson, 2004). It isnt that nurses have not been serving in these roles, they have but today, nurses receive speci...
the importance of taking assessment from a number of different, relevant perspectives. For example, mentors who are conscious that...
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...
in African American communities in though it has level off and is falling in other US populations (Dyer, 2003). Adolescents are am...
only one group, no control group. Group exposed to treatment and then measure (Creswell, 2003). Measured participants blood gluco...
evaluate nursing care and use research findings in clinical practice" (Barnsteiner, Wyatt and Richardson 165). This survey reveal...
rather than requiring patient transfer to ICU. This plan is consistent with the principles of planned change in that it focuses o...
proposed method of resolution is to design, develop and evaluate a clinical, evidence-based "diabetic education program to increas...
was perceived as merely the "handmaiden" of medicine, that is, a service that was there to facilitate the practice of the physicia...
have had ethical reservations about taking a patient off of life support, but she did not add to Lynns burden by interfering with ...
a nurses role as a change agent in data base management. Fonville, Killian, and Tranbarger (1998) note that successful nurses of ...
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...
preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...
There are different studies that have made a partial examination of the developmental models of clinical mentorship and supervisio...
balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...
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...
Issues pertinent to these five elements include conceptual framework, scope of practice, policy implications and support of social...
of happiness, contentment or relief, or something above ordinary existence. The patient should do more than subsist. 4. Care shoul...
who choose to use qualitative methods tend to seek a deeper reality, inasmuch as their aim is to "study things in their natural se...
"Many changes in health care yesterday, have major unforeseen consequences today. While it is easy to predict results with the be...
Primary Care Act, a feature of both practices is that the patients have the option of seeing a GP or a NP as their first point of ...
their wishes for the patients care. Every nursing home resident has a right to such a plan by law (Stern), and it does not only p...
call for compliance with standardized procedures, health codes, and licensing requirements, all of which have been initiated to su...
patient care" (p. 438). Prior to 1970, nursing training in the UK could be described as rigid and highly structured. After...
term. The rationale is that the experienced nurse will guide the new graduate into the active and applied portion of the pr...
present-day nurse, he notes, this can be construed to mean a caring about the well-being of those the nurse serves which, in this ...
of pregnancies, pending on the population and the definitions used (Walker, 2000). Hypertension in pregnancy is typically classi...