Essays 241 - 270
is not being replaced by individuals wishing to go into nursing or the health care environment. This has been shown by a slow decr...
the problem and to eliminate it where possible. Nester (1998) quantifies the extent of the problem relating that an estimated 1,2...
who consistently place the needs of others above their own. The individuals who do this seemingly so naturally often can be diffi...
making a critical separation between their medical and social responsibilities within the short time allowed in an office visit. ...
opportunity to do. The earliest nurses were to provide patient comfort and care for patients in the manner that physicians expect...
a method which pursues both action and understanding at the same time, and points out that it is particularly relevant in situatio...
since the survey was initiated in 1977, for example, between 1992 and 1996, the number of nurses grew by 14.2 percent (Mee, 2001)....
in the heart and nervous system, or in some cases, death (WHO, 1996). While health promotion relating to STDs may be a global mis...
also see that she considered the business of nursing to be about reform. In order to achieve the principles that she espoused fo...
report the trouble. Sometimes they have no family or nobody to report the abuse to. Many nursing homes have no background check ...
their mental capacity often fades due to dementia, or Alzheimers, or a host of other maladies that create this state where there i...
profession" and so individuals are susceptible, the current structure in medicine has exacerbated the stress. Cutbacks at hospital...
others, often in an intellectual focus. Cultural collaboration raises the value of this effort to that of individuals of one cult...
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...
Today, the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that it is no longer only added stress and long hours for those...
(p. 835) among Medicaid residents of Massachusetts nursing homes between 1991 and 1994. This mixed method (i.e., quantitative as ...
One examination that does not qualify as a scientific study is an assessment by Macknick (1998) of how nursing homes market themse...
Statistics expects that number to rise to more than one million in less than 20 years. The American Nurses Association and Monste...
The ever-changing nature of Americas health care system has introduced a chaos in a population that for more than a century has be...
the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has had a definitive impact on the quality of care being provided within the country...
the issue of work stress, noting that it is often difficult to strike a balance between beneficial and detrimental stress. Writin...
exist for generations. Though Nightingale promoted a professional demeanor, nursing was not something that most well-bred women w...
It is the responsibility of the school nurse to make sure childrens bodies are healthy so that their minds can be properly nurture...
and every individual as the beneficial employee he or she truly is, is the most effective way for a change-agent project to achiev...
for caring for the wounded (Holder, 2003). For the first time in American history, women were asked to leave their homes and act...
and consumable supplies. Capital expense and information technology (IT) items are included, but the nurse manager has no direct ...
or reject MEDITECHs suggestions as they see fit. Whether users accept or reject the suggestions made by MEDITECH, care prov...
specifically state that their objective in conducting their study was to "describe the experience of men who are diagnosed with pr...
process that requires "interpretation, sensitivity, imagination and active participation" (Jenner, 1997). Scientific knowledge, o...