YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Implementing Patient to Nurse Ratios in the Healthcare Environment
Essays 511 - 540
an adolescent client (Wallis, 2004, p. 59). Data on the development of abstract reasoning skills, as well as of the "recognition o...
that is, whether it will spread (metastasize) and what symptoms that it is likely to cause (Cancer diagnosis, 2005). The term "sec...
the needs of the dying and her work indicates that there are times when the most meaningful communication that a nurse can offer i...
* Time over Money - Employees today seek more personal time versus financial compensation. * Professional versus Personal Role - ...
provided. A nurse who has back pain will likely reduce the care he or she could otherwise administer. When people have back or m...
and two other men beside her patient, she becomes drawn to the patient, though not in a romantic way. She devotes nearly her entir...
over the age of 60 years in 1995, and that number will probably increase to about 1.2 billion (2002, p.1094) in 2025. Informatio...
the patient prior to his death. The nurse clearly felt the need to encourage the family to stay and spend as much time as possibl...
that make use of color, but even these efforts have not typically met with good response by patients or hospital administrators (S...
and more nurses are standing at the front lines of managed care, acting somewhat as liaison between the patient and managed care o...
placement of polyvinyl alcohol sponges into subcutaneous pockets" (p. 7). Each of the rats were "given a nutritional solution con...
stronger. The authors make no comment on whether any of the individuals were concerned about becoming dependent on their pa...
paradigm but without the fantasy that acceptance is the ultimate outcome. In treating this patient, a student writing on the subje...
authors have explored the importance of the holistic approach in positively impacting patient outcome. As early as the 1970s rese...
indwelling foley and compression boot. Her dressing is dry and intact. She was discharged with Percocet 5mg q6. Analysis and Out...
Conroy and Nottoli (1999) report the case of Henry, an irascible octogenarian who easily was the most difficult patient in the ski...
routine activities necessary to their own care. The purpose is that with a nurses direction, encouragement and initial supervisio...
caused by the illnesses the may then have a negative physiological backlash on the patient. For other condition it may be the ro...
is wheelchair bound, but nevertheless cooks for herself and shops for herself in a nearby grocery store, using her motorized wheel...
until they become powerless in terms of their own personal care that nursing care should take over. There are essentially 3 typ...
of a holistic approach to team management, and the integration of efforts to improve the overall function of nursing teams to redu...
All of these studies reflect empirical studies of hospital populations in an effort to determine how changes in the healthcare env...
biochemistry. I recognized the wonder of chemistry, but what I failed to recognize at the time was the solid practice it gave me ...
still exists as to the necessity and long-term benefits of circumcision. Virtually all agree that if circumcision is to be done, ...
Acquiescing to the constraints imposed by organizational and professional structure does not mean that the nurse has no alternativ...
every 30 minutes for protection, safety and placement. This was a two-part citation in that there is no evidence that staff...
on education and prevention, and on how individual and social systems work together in the "society" of the health care industry. ...
physical restraints. The authors own views combined with the findings of current literature reveal that the use of physical restr...
In seven pages this report examines the importance of workplace communication between nurses in a hospital environment. Six sourc...
infinitely more to the aspect of nursing than administering medicine; in fact, the myriad components that ultimately comprise the ...