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Essays 1921 - 1950
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,...
learned long ago the value of yet another Deming (1986) exhortation, that of continuous improvement. By definition, the concept i...
considering this economic downturn, the numbers of undergraduates pursuing nursing careers began to also decline. In 1991, Canada ...
the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...
over their blood glucose levels; and (3) encouraging continuous improvement in nursing knowledge and patient education. The progr...
lethal drug is given with the intent to bring about death, thus ending suffering" (28). Of course, there is a difference between ...
preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...
train sufficient numbers of new nurses. Turnover is high among those who remain in the profession, and those so dissatisfied - an...
These authors conducted a large study of 3,830 individuals consisting of 17.8 percent nurses, 21.8 percent physicians, 29.6 percen...
Developing New Nurse Leaders also considers the issue of shifts in leadership and governance, with a focus on the role of nurses a...
prepared for this role" (McKenna, 1997, p. 87). Perhaps most significant of all was Florence Nightingales belief that env...
I - Demonstrating Integrity at all times D - Showing concern for the Dignity of others E - Displaying Excellence and Empathy in ...
when he cannot feel a pulse. A new nurse, a first year graduate, Sally enters the room, sees Long and runs out. She encounters Nur...
is simply to require that their nursing staff make up for understaffing by working mandatory overtime on a more or less permanent ...
the risk of medical errors, such as dispensing the wrong medication or the wrong dose (Nursing overtime, 2004). The study, which w...
and wrapped them in cellophane and then photographed them. He said that some looked very sweet, others quite disturbing. He then i...
10 years ago, the Christian Science Monitor, in covering an article about child care workers and the poverty-level wages they rece...
thinks is, to a certain extent, a result of genetic influences; however, this capacity is also highly influenced by the process o...
in 2000, allowing a long comment period before the final rule was issued in February 2003. Five rules were published in 199...
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...
is a very important consideration in nursing. Indeed, some four thousand of so documents were published annually about pain in th...
"significant anxiety, particularly before they discover the most effective symptom management" (Moloney, et al, 2001, p. 19). In o...
The act of faxing patient information to another care-providing organization or third-party payer comes under privacy regulations ...
They are: 1. "activity level 2. "diet 3. "discharge medications 4. "follow-up appointment 5. "weight monitoring 6. "what to do if ...
classifies the stroke patients needs in four domains: 1) medical/surgical issues; 2) mental status/emotion/coping behaviors; 3) ph...
nonverbal and behavioural signals and information relating to the clients support system. Objective data could include observation...
Although the nursing professions is just now beginning to become more aware of the need for this type of approach it was first int...
moment to moment as the changing patterns of shifting perspectives weave the fabric of life through the human-universe interconnec...