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the medical team with which these patients have surrounded themselves. It is the patients responsibility to cooperate and do ever...

undergoes surgery for a hip arthroplasty 24 hours after admission. Twenty-four hours after surgery the nurses note that Mrs. Gale...

caused by the illnesses the may then have a negative physiological backlash on the patient. For other condition it may be the ro...

experience, particularly that immigrant experience as it occurs within the modern medical environment, revolves around cultural un...

is wheelchair bound, but nevertheless cooks for herself and shops for herself in a nearby grocery store, using her motorized wheel...

achieved that the critical care nurse may address the bio-psycho-social implications of the event (Alfafara and Hedges, 1996). Fur...

is they do, when they change their actions, then the image of nursing will change" (Watson, 1996, p. 142). Watson has recognized ...

on nurses increase (Cullen, 2003). Nevertheless, nurse educators and scholars stress that it is through recognition of caring as a...

It also is clear that readily accessible primary care services are essential to achieving effective health care reform. The World ...

for competency, the use do surveys to assess standards and the evaluation of clients as well as the provision of a complaints hotl...

in the overall quality of care delivered by community health nurses (CHNs) is providing end-of-life care that is holistic and cong...

in the home and individuals suffering from dementia. The background literature review sites a wide range of sources, including res...

The writer looks at a research article by Lach and Chang (2007) entitled Caregiver Perspectives on Safety in Home Dementia Care" p...

the age 65 have hypertension (Sirkin and Rosner 2009, p. 402). Hypertension leads to a lesser quality of life for the patient and ...

computerized or electronic patient records. 1c. To discuss these findings with supervisor/mentor to consider how the information...

number of patients, in other words) and the incidence of injury at nursing homes, making this correlation a worthwhile problem to ...

entails addressing the emotional, psychological and spiritual needs of the patient, as well as medical and physical needs, entails...

prompts nurses to cultivate the "conscious intent to preserve wholeness; potentiate healing; and preserve dignity, integrity and l...

between a patient and a doctor in a community practice setting" (Manias, 2010, p. 934). However, this scenario is no longer the mo...

provided in their own home. Services offered include, but are not limited to, general nursing services, physical and occupational ...

client who is the focus of this case study is an 86-year-old woman who has been living at home with her husband. Her medical histo...

of literature pertaining to type 2 diabetes mellitus, begins by describing, summarizing and analyzing the study conducted by Barko...

The writer provides some feedback that may have been provided by a mentor, looking at a presentation given by the student. The pr...

The paper is a presentation designed to introduce and explain a new fall prevention policy for a home care nursing agency. The pr...

This research paper employs a nursing case study in order to discuss issues associated with understaffing and its negative impact ...

phenomenological, existential, and qualitative components (Cohen, 1991). These combine to create a theory that addresses the pers...

nursing from the time when Florence Nightingale founded modern nursing in the nineteenth century. Since Nightingale, a variety of ...

The SCDNT regards the meta-paradigm of "Nursing" as an art, that is, a "helping service," but also as a technology ("Dorothea," 20...

This essay discusses the barriers and advantages of health care professionals collaborating. This was one of the sections in the F...

This essay comments on four aspects of education in health care beginning with using the COPA model for basic nursing education an...