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experience, particularly that immigrant experience as it occurs within the modern medical environment, revolves around cultural un...
objective in conducting their study was to "describe the experience of men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer and their wives,...
is wheelchair bound, but nevertheless cooks for herself and shops for herself in a nearby grocery store, using her motorized wheel...
MEDMARX is thought to be the most comprehensive reporting of medication error information in the nation (Morantz & Torrey, 2003). ...
Conroy and Nottoli (1999) report the case of Henry, an irascible octogenarian who easily was the most difficult patient in the ski...
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...
risk factor, but is of less consequence among those diabetics who pay close attention to their blood sugar levels, test often and ...
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...
Bell (2000) reports that when an Australian hospital instituted shared governance, nurse managers responded "by developing a teamw...
between states and federal regulation. The purpose here is to determine whether the USAF advanced nurse practitioners are "functi...
been in operation for some time, and it currently is building a retirement community of duplexes for those over 55 who do not yet ...
is understandable given that MRSA is one of the primary threats in terms of diseases encountered in ICUs in the US. Over fifty pe...
and their insurers by operating under two distinct fee schedules. Medicare requires that care providers fees be "normal and custo...
and statistics. This approach works well for in physics and math, but less well when applied to people. Moloney (2002) offers thre...
caused by the illnesses the may then have a negative physiological backlash on the patient. For other condition it may be the ro...
improve it, then nursing can truly be an invaluable profession to choose. This leads us to the reality of helping people. Perha...
military personnel and other non-combatants. While McConnell was seeing her charges safely to Japan, General Douglas MacArthur was...
a little less than a third of them were under the age of 40 (Meadows, 2002, p. 46). This offered conclusive proof that number of ...
states, "The nurse promotes, advocates for, and strives to protect the health, safety and rights of the patient" (Code of Ethics f...
are often called upon to provide comfort where there seems to be none, patience in the face of adversity, and grace under fire. Th...
should all be considered (OConnor and Walker, 2003). Traditionally, societys influence on educational planning has meant that the...
to others, at least not as frequently as would seem reasonable if they liked it as well as the general public does. The reason mo...
feel as if they are not being given proper treatment if a CNA is assigned to their case instead of an RN (Sullivan, 1998). Thus, t...
the insertion of a central line, threaded through a vein, and it was once believed that it would aid cancer patients, restoring ap...
the situation, the charge nurse might take a number of different actions in response to this information. For example, the charge ...
First seen as an occasional point of minor and temporary discomfort, there seemed to be other, more "important" issues to assess. ...
reasons given by nursing staff for not providing this care (Kalisch, 2006, p. 306). At the end of the study article, in the "Di...
nature have cropped up. Is a 60 year old woman too old to raise children? Is it ethical for a woman to carry her own grandchildren...
researchers (JBI, 2008). This section of the site also addresses the topic of "Research Training" and the availability of scholars...