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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...
(1999), research shows that the level of education reached by an RN contributes to a sense of professional autonomy and those nurs...
the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...
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...
lethal drug is given with the intent to bring about death, thus ending suffering" (28). Of course, there is a difference between ...
only one group, no control group. Group exposed to treatment and then measure (Creswell, 2003). Measured participants blood gluco...
transformative perspective because Newman argues that rather than being diametrically opposed, disease and health are merely facto...
balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...
rather than requiring patient transfer to ICU. This plan is consistent with the principles of planned change in that it focuses o...
was perceived as merely the "handmaiden" of medicine, that is, a service that was there to facilitate the practice of the physicia...
greater demand on health care services as more of them cross that line from employed to retired. Projections are just that,...
The ANCI Competency Unit 4 demands that nurses accept accountability and responsibility for their actions in nursing. To do so we...
and safety" (ANA, 2005). After all, if a nurse does not take steps to preserve her or his own safety, the nurse cannot adequately ...
considering this economic downturn, the numbers of undergraduates pursuing nursing careers began to also decline. In 1991, Canada ...
learned long ago the value of yet another Deming (1986) exhortation, that of continuous improvement. By definition, the concept i...
Working for the well-staffed working environment in itself is no small task, given the fact of the ongoing nursing shortage. The ...
reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...
the basic paradigms of nursing professional theory are considered within a social context. For example, health is defined as a "dy...
Sharon Bernier, RN, PhD and President of the National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing, points out that Aikens study also...
that the doctrine of informed consent is "hopelessly flawed--or at least misguided," as it is often not possible to truly inform ...
al, 2009). The theory came from "the results of studies accomplished by the author along her Doctorate in Clinic and Social Psycho...
members to students, as state registered nurse practice acts typically mandate a ratio 1:10 (AACN, 2009). Individually, students,...
"population," which is then further defined as "a collection of individuals who share one or more personal or environmental charac...
risk. For example, Mahlmeister (1996) relates a pediatric situation in which a night nurse in a small hospital was expected to wor...
Many of the physicians on staff had graduated from Harvard Medical School and tended to think themselves superior to everyone and ...
regarded as creating obligations on others to help her exercise her rights. An inherent theme that is implied in all of the questi...
nurses that can serve the healthy care needs of southern New Jerseys culturally diverse community (Philosophy and Mission Statemen...
focus primarily on a nurses education. The goal of Turning Point is to direct care to the underserved population of New Jersey. Wh...