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expectancy is increasing and more people are surviving serious illness and living longer with chronic illness. At the same time, t...

developing countries, while it alleviating the nursing shortage in the industrialized countries to a certain degree, is creating a...

all aspects of professional nursing and a nurses obligation to patients to provide ethical and professional quality care. The firs...

surgery. Preventing such intense pain often requires less drug use than does alleviating the pain once it has begun (Siwek, 2001)...

Outlook Handbook, which is published by the U.S. Department of Labors Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), registered nurses (RNs), a...

the ability of an institution to deliver quality, error-free care. At the Six Sigma level, there are roughly "3.4 errors per one m...

in death is a wise safeguard. In the early part of the twentieth century, rationalizations abounded in medical literature that def...

over the course of several years of research into the issue. Most styles also depend on an array of variables including "organiza...

risk factors that can be altered, with special attention to lowering cholesterol and blood pressure. B. Treatment of ischemia usua...

therapeutic manner (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003). This relationship may refer to a single individual, or the "person" may be a sma...

(Green, 2004a). A travel nurse, on the other hand, is typically contracted to work a 13-week period, and this usually includes an ...

Environmental risk management is becoming in recent important within a commercial environment. This 14 page paper looks at a numbe...

employability: The role of nurse educator requires an advanced practice nursing degree at the graduate levels of masters and docto...

include such concepts as "Division of work," which specifies that "Human resources can be efficiently used by specialization of ta...

(2003) gives the example of an nurse assigned to a busy intensive care unit (ICU) began experiencing clear signs of traumatic stre...

Domain concepts Health: The traditional understanding of "health" is that is the absence of illness and/or injury. However, for ...

indicated by Carter, census also frequently plays a vital role in this regard for nursing managers. Other factors that I considere...

(Domrose, 2001). However, current trends have developed that have greatly expanded the scope of med-surg nursing, which includes a...

between those who supported mandatory staffing ratios, based on research such as the study conducted by Linda Aiken, and the stanc...

In eight pages this paper examines the field of nursing in terms of nursing roles in health care management, education requirement...

individual is an "open system," which includes "distinct, but integrated physiological, psychological and socio-cultural systems" ...

while in the hospital plus the incidence of symptoms and/or disease that would have initially required use of the medication. In ...

medicinal purposes, but it is thought that its origin is tied to the caves of France dated to as early as 25,000 BCE ("History of ...

2005). However, the employer of these aides will be responsible for ensuring that systems are in place in regards to proper manage...

p. 29), as stated in its title. Mean age was 81; 218 participants completed the study. The researchers evaluated the differences...

mobile offices" (Pryma, 2002, p. NA). The portability of the laptops allows maintenance workers to bring them on the plane, if the...

as typical or traditional (first generation) and atypical (second generation) (Blake, 2006). Typical antipsychotic medications ar...

of a busy dermatological practice. This dermatologist see as many as 100 patients a day and is known as an "expert in the evaluati...

necessary to choose the most appropriate method, in many cases this may include the use of screening and stratification in a numbe...

This research paper offers a case study of J.H., a 38-year-old father of 3, who has suffered a myocardial infarction. The case stu...