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hospital stays (Cole and Soucy, 2003). While all ICU patients have serious and potentially life-threatening conditions, those ov...
(in English) between the years 1989 and 2004. The extent of the literature review appears to be sufficient to support the research...
care service has been the focus of greater scrutiny. Willging (2004) asks: "Just what is assisted living? There are still too ma...
stress, which causes fluctuating levels of neuro-endocrine responses (Taylor, Repetti and Seeman, 1997). To understand this concep...
Budget cutbacks, burnout and lack of student enrollment have precluded sufficient staffing in many critical areas of healthcare. ...
HIV-positive nurses being a threat to patients and other health care workers. Research clearly supports the reality of the situat...
not as drugs, which means that these remedies do not undergo the rigorous testing that is required for prescription medicines (He...
this development and left orders for both analgesia and sedation, which helped at first, but became less effective as the hours pa...
motor vehicle crashes, substance abuse, and illegal behavior" (Visser, Lesesne and Perou, 2007, S99). Symptoms include irritabili...
precisely the same as for other patients. Legal responsibility for care decisions in cases where there is a living will: does the...
systems. The following examination of the problem of medication errors focuses on the context of mental health nursing within the ...
and Perou (2007) report that an estimated five to eighteen percent of youth in the US are diagnosed with ADHD and most receive so...
the listeners would occasional offer comments and observations, to which the rabbi would generally respond. Occasionally, this pro...
awareness of the self within the context of the environment grows in association with each other in a manner that allows the indiv...
the case study, is important for planning a safe and effective rehabilitation program (Craven and Hirnle, 2007). People who experi...
avoidance, such as creating a buddy system, which pairs elderly neighbors with each other. Buddies check on one another and accomp...
the environment" (Reynolds and Cormack, 1991, p. 1123). Within this main system are eight subsystems: the "ingestive, eliminative,...
Social Services they have complained that that funding is insufficient to provide for even their most basic dietary needs. Part o...
discourse that I find confusing. Philosophy has often struck me as an amorphous subject. Its slippery and refuses to be categoriz...
the plan may be objective where the actual healing can be measured or it may be subjective according to what the patient says (Dup...
quality of the provided care (ANA, 2008). Empirical research studies have confirmed that the risk for medical error increase subst...
relations. Nurses must assess person and environment in relation to their impact on health. Both person and environment can vary...
that by instituting improved sanitation and nutrition, there was a corresponding decrease in morality (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003...
fact that Ross, who is associated with an established clinic, recommends this procedure and offers her an example of how this can ...
owes the same duties of care to herself or himself as is owed to patients. A nurse cannot adequately attend to patients if that nu...
of her theory is the "improvement of nurses relationships with patients," which is a goal that she proposed can be accomplished by...
there is very little information about predisposes people to these episodes (Swann, 2006). Therefore, for the most part, nursing a...
various roles" (Meadows-Oliver, et al, 2007, p. 116). The stress involved in a teenage pregnancy and the associated pressure tha...
the factors that made up the CC situation. Analysis of the data identified 147 factors related to CC that could be classified into...
accomplish beneficial behavioral change. As Kurt Lewins pioneering work with change theory points out, any change initiative ent...