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Not only are the direct health impacts to the nurse deleterious, impaired nurses cannot meet their responsibility to provide top q...
whoever the client might be, that is, an individual, family, group or community. The third provision indicates that nurses are als...
that hospital nurse staffing levels are inadequate to provide safe and effective care" (DPE Research Department, 2003). Physicians...
267). In other words, scholarship points out that men today are faced with a plethora of conflicting societal messages. They are...
not only better oriented overall to do the job but who also would be paid enough to have an incentive to stay in the job or put ma...
have access to a range of drugs. Bennett (et al, 2000) argues that the overall rate of substance abuse in the nursing popualtion r...
individual, the eight values of the CNA Code provide a framework for guidance regarding nursing behavior. The Code states that the...
have "little or no training in fundamental management skills" (Baer, 2006, p. 60). As well as absenteeism, problems with managemen...
Roughly 50 percent of the current working nursing population will retire within the next 15 years (Mee and Robinson, 2003). Adding...
between those who supported mandatory staffing ratios, based on research such as the study conducted by Linda Aiken, and the stanc...
of appropriate parental guidance and role models that makes certain youths choose lives of violence. In the Old West violen...
dehydrated? Has literature simply made you aware of this potential problem? You might say something like: "Considering the dire co...
currently has 9 major nursing schools, which include the University of Pennsylvania (one of the most renowned facilities in the Un...
budget restraints. Nurses leave the profession because they are "distressed by being unable to provide quality nursing care, disgr...
support for the concept that effective leadership style is directly related to nursing job satisfaction (Kleinman, 2004a). These s...
for the precise coding of medication and, thereby, helps nurses avoid the common errors listed above (Woods and Doan-Johnson, 2002...
In ten pages this paper examines the increasing health care industry practice of hospital mergers and the problems with them and s...
take to the streets rather than cope with abuse, violence or parental drug addiction. Also, as indicated above in regards to alcoh...
in those nursing homes that maintained adequate staffing, but beyond that, the administrative climate of the nursing home facility...
(Walsh, 2003; p. 22). The intended role is that of partner with an MD in providing direct patient care in terms of serving in rol...
legal errors (Fackelmann, 2002). Furthermore, the AMA study demonstrated that there is a direct statistical connection between th...
the educational setting, and considers the role of school nurses. At a time when an increasing number of students are receiving s...
with "depression, sleep disturbance, fatigue, and decreased overall physical and mental functioning" (Hearn, 2001). Problem Stat...
MEDMARX is thought to be the most comprehensive reporting of medication error information in the nation (Morantz & Torrey, 2003). ...
if the individual discovers that he or she has thoughts and feelings that are "very basic and very strong" with regard to others o...
the risk of medical errors, such as dispensing the wrong medication or the wrong dose (Nursing overtime, 2004). The study, which w...
US shortage has caused many healthcare institutions to look for nurses outside their countrys borders and many nurses are leaving ...
for registered nurses by 2010 (Feeg 8). While statistics such as these have received a great deal of press, what is less well kno...
1999). Elderly patients who are alert, and not declared incompetent, have the right to refuse treatment, which includes turning or...
make a real difference. In helping professions, such leadership is desirable. The health care industry today is fraught with probl...