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9.Surg: Patients recovering from some form of surgery. 10. Med: Patients recovering from some form of illness. 11. ICU-Intensive C...

A 3 page research paper that compares and contrasts the way in which nursing theorists Hildegard Peplau, Dorothea Orem, and Betty ...

Evidence into Practice" (AHRQ, 2008). The Nursing Center is an extremely useful site in that it offers access to a long list of ...

power, found that where nurses report that power when is shared, there are corresponding improvements in the nursing/physician rel...

in response to cognitive and physiological challenge" (Covelli, 2007, p. 323). Diet: Both the intake of dietary sodium and potas...

patients with certain injuries and missed diagnoses of certain conditions such as appendicitis or meningitis (Dansby, Kavaler & Sp...

it is appropriate, such as when a novice nurse is faced with a crisis. There are times, and stages in a career, when employees can...

2003). As this suggests, a major factor in the leadership of CNSs is that they facilitate and implement educational initiatives. ...

2003). As this suggests, a major factor in the leadership of CNSs is that they facilitate and implement educational initiatives. ...

and typically occurs by the time a person reaches their 70s. In the U.S., roughly 1.5 million fractures are caused by osteoporosis...

Programs and Addiction Treatment Centers, 2007). Breaking addiction to these and other abused drugs often requires medical interv...

the plan may be objective where the actual healing can be measured or it may be subjective according to what the patient says (Dup...

quality of the provided care (ANA, 2008). Empirical research studies have confirmed that the risk for medical error increase subst...

relations. Nurses must assess person and environment in relation to their impact on health. Both person and environment can vary...

Social Services they have complained that that funding is insufficient to provide for even their most basic dietary needs. Part o...

the listeners would occasional offer comments and observations, to which the rabbi would generally respond. Occasionally, this pro...

awareness of the self within the context of the environment grows in association with each other in a manner that allows the indiv...

the case study, is important for planning a safe and effective rehabilitation program (Craven and Hirnle, 2007). People who experi...

discourse that I find confusing. Philosophy has often struck me as an amorphous subject. Its slippery and refuses to be categoriz...

the environment" (Reynolds and Cormack, 1991, p. 1123). Within this main system are eight subsystems: the "ingestive, eliminative,...

indicate the patients readiness for growth and movement" (Marchese, 2006, p. 364). Phase 1, orientation, describes the patient and...

Based on their results, the authors suggested nurse educators add more critical thinking exercises to their classroom curriculum. ...

avoidance, such as creating a buddy system, which pairs elderly neighbors with each other. Buddies check on one another and accomp...

On further examination, the cause of death is determined to be smallpox. As the World Health Organization (WHO) completely eradica...

precisely the same as for other patients. Legal responsibility for care decisions in cases where there is a living will: does the...

systems. The following examination of the problem of medication errors focuses on the context of mental health nursing within the ...

unitary human beings (Newman). This theory is appealing because it acknowledges how each person is unique and, therefore, must be ...

motor vehicle crashes, substance abuse, and illegal behavior" (Visser, Lesesne and Perou, 2007, S99). Symptoms include irritabili...

and Perou (2007) report that an estimated five to eighteen percent of youth in the US are diagnosed with ADHD and most receive so...

wages and benefits to its nurses that are competitive for its market or that have been collectively bargained with a labor organiz...