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potential need for treatment for impaired skin integrity due to immobility. Therefore, the nurse will begin precautions prior to a...
percent of al cardiac surgery patients (Brantman and Howie, 2006). While this postoperative condition is typically well-tolerated ...
expressing his or her misery. Such caregivers may have experienced patients who are as likely to cry out, thrash around, or simply...
from pain that began after radiation therapy that caused nerve damage (Fischman, 2000). After receiving therapy at a pain clinic, ...
in death is a wise safeguard. In the early part of the twentieth century, rationalizations abounded in medical literature that def...
In a paper of four pages, the writer assesses a research article on the use of lifestyle counseling by nurses. The research artic...
This research paper pertains to actions that nurses undertake to aid heart failure patients in regards to self-care management. Th...
This research paper explores nursing literature pertaining to the role of advanced practice nurses (APNs). The writer first discus...
ability to empower and grow people" (Gokenbach, 2003, p. 8). Over the past decade, there have been numerous studies that have fou...
This research paper describes the strategies and factors found in recent nursing research that are associated with achieving acad...
with clear results provided. Quantitative and Discussion articles needed to present information that directly addresses the purpos...
nurse job satisfaction and the development and implementation of a patient care delivery model at New Hampshire Hospital?" (Allen...
to work efficiently and effectively across cultural boundaries. This concept also encompasses not only the assumption that nurses,...
p. 311). Specifically, this study focused on discerning how indicators of the "psychosocial work climate" affected the frequency w...
some determining the study was inconclusive, others saying certain interventions should be made universal and still others stating...
Hospital. The purpose here is to describe and evaluate the restructuring of St. Vincents ICU to gain one-on-one nursing and so im...
30 months, as this is when between 13 and 28 percent of senior nurses are due to retire (Sibbald, 2003). Currently, close to a thi...
graduate nursing hires (Truman, 2004, p. 45). The novice nurses participate in six hours of classroom instruction, plus thirty hou...
imply, a standardized nursing language provides a "uniform nomenclature for the diagnosis, intervention, and evaluation components...
upholding the human dignity of the people involved, as well as their "unique biopsychosocial, cultural, (and) spiritual being" (LM...
the question of what effect an aging nursing work force has on American healthcare in general. First and foremost, the aging of ...
socially isolating, as outside opinion is discounted. The team adopts a "defensive posture," which is evidenced by "derogatory, de...
to bridge the gap between nursing research and nursing practice, two formal program efforts were undertaken: the Western Interstat...
group, such as "those that control the eye," or it may become more generalized (Yee). The patients facial expression and speech ma...
expectancy is increasing and more people are surviving serious illness and living longer with chronic illness. At the same time, t...
"interactive, systems, and developmental" approaches (Tourville and Ingalls 21). The systems model of nursing perceives the meta...
reality of the profession. It needs a makeover much as it had in the 19th century in Brittan when nursing reformers struggled to h...
practitioner surgeries are run by practice nurses, only making referrals to other members of the healthcare team when required, Th...
have otherwise been a lingering existence in private homes or disreputable hospitals. Inasmuch as the nurse is "temporarily the c...
Fifteen pages and 8 sources. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the information available about job opportunities fo...