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several years. Psychologically, it has been found that individuals more actively involved with their own health care often fare m...

in the 19th and early 20th century, the fact is even more remarkable. "Well and Strong and Young" Updike writes that in 1854 Bar...

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...

techniques or theories as they pertain to the medical world, and it is as if the prison setting is the last place where these tech...

or other special attention to the wounds caused by burns. Each day s/he spends in the hospital is creating another reason for the...

the chaos," she said (Serafini 1490). This nurse further stated that sometimes ER nurses are called to the intensive care unit for...

the realization of the "dehumanizing" of patients that led to them being referred to as "Bed x," "Case x" or some other nameless, ...

2002 and allowed for a National Nurse Service Corps program to provide funding for tuition, expenses and a stipend to those nursin...

gives the appearance of increased attention to theory and evidenced-based nursing in an atmosphere of caring for the individual. ...

expressing his or her misery. Such caregivers may have experienced patients who are as likely to cry out, thrash around, or simply...

of the patients in a single unit will be assigned to one RN; the other half will be assigned to another. Another will be availabl...

or understanding when the staff or the doctors have to move on to the next client. Many patients complain that their healthcare pr...

NAON recognizes that learning and developing professional is a life-long processes and it helps orthopedic nurses achieve the goal...

will--in all likelihood--result in a professional negligence suit, rather than criminal charges. Suits against nurses result from ...

in death is a wise safeguard. In the early part of the twentieth century, rationalizations abounded in medical literature that def...

over the course of several years of research into the issue. Most styles also depend on an array of variables including "organiza...

Smith, et al. (2002) explain that their purpose "was to investigate the effects of therapeutic massage on selected outcomes relate...

legislation that authorizes a Nurse Licensure Compact (National Council of the State Boards of Nursing, Nurse Licensure Compact, 2...

Additionally, the model also "incorporates a life span continuum, where the individual passes from fully dependent at birth, to fu...

of the patient experience" (Engebretson 20). The background provided by a large, close-knit family means that, from childhood, I h...

as well as those studies that have suggested broadening students exposure to families and children with special needs. This discus...

it comes to orders, medications, tests, transfers and so on. Another problem for both physicians and nurses is identifying all p...

(BNE:NPA, 2006). To investigate for heart disease was clearly indicated by physicians orders and, furthermore, Eddie failed to not...

2005, p.165). In obese children, the number of fat cells present in the body can be as much as three times higher than in normal w...

For example, in regards to nurse practitioners from other state, the law states, "The Board (meaning the Board of Nursing) may iss...

This 3 page paper provides an overview of a nursing recommendation. This paper gives a number of reasons why the student would be...

p. 311). Specifically, this study focused on discerning how indicators of the "psychosocial work climate" affected the frequency w...

nurse working on a medical unit at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center. According to Kodet, the only thing ...

perceived self-efficacy (Capik, 1998). JJ explained how Penders theory guides her priorities in establishing educational goals, ...

much broader in its application. It is this broadness that allows nurses to reach across religious lines and distinctions. In a su...