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example of this was introduced by Coreil et al in 2001 when discussing breast cancer - they point out that incidence rates for bre...
of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), define an "Advance Directives," as "l...
This paper will discuss the debate in Australia. People are also aware that health care is not as good as it could be, so the seco...
this rhetoric was how the act would impact the millions of people in the United States who suffer from emotional or physical disor...
a top priority for many hospitals; however, the competition among hospitals for these nurses is intense (Thomason, 2006). Problem...
infected individuals essentially quadrupled in South Africa and Zimbabwe (El-Asfahani and Girvan, 2009). Today an estimated 25 pe...
anticipated to help improve the system over the long term, short-term there will have to be adaptations by organizations as they d...
"become a universal law" (Kant, 1993, p. 30). In other words, Kants main criteria for action is that the individual should conside...
All of the results of this reengineering, however, were not as positive. The process had not taken into consideration the fact th...
It is well known that there is a significant shortage of registered nurses that will continue to grow. There is a difference of op...
facility is (2000). Most also are not aware that Medicare pays for hospice facilities (2000). This article is important in pointi...
older our bodies begin to simply wear out. The modern marvels of medicine can patch up many of our creaks and groans, it can even...
In eleven pages this paper discuses PPOs and HMOs in an evaluation of these managed care system's pros and cons. Twelve sources a...
at both the federal and state level. This also holds true for the health care industry, and perhaps more so because of the impactf...
"interactive, systems, and developmental" approaches (Tourville and Ingalls 21). The systems model of nursing perceives the meta...
hospitals to reevaluate the way in which patient care is delivered and quality of care is approached, while at the same time find ...
were those who didnt like the "gatekeeper" mentality, the fact that any referral or recommendation needed to come from a "primary ...
expectancy is increasing and more people are surviving serious illness and living longer with chronic illness. At the same time, t...
(2003) gives the example of an nurse assigned to a busy intensive care unit (ICU) began experiencing clear signs of traumatic stre...
background of hospital RNs is a significant factor in providing quality nursing care, as this study showed that the level of educa...
patient care (Hassmiller and Cozine, 2006). Some strategies proposed by RWJF for helping to decrease the tremendous workload on nu...
nurses are part of this generation and a large majority of nurses are retiring. It has been estimated that 50 percent of the count...
are possess "awareness and intention," and can construct a sense of self-identity and meaning," which includes the ability to choo...
include an understanding of how insulin functions to control glucose levels and the interaction between variables that can affect ...
Sometimes the ability to perform foot self-exams for follow-up education or acute illness (Nettles, 2005, p. 44). Additionally, ...
task forces, committees, and organizational projects," while also serving as "resources to other nurses to facilitate advancing sk...
supply and the importance of fruit and vegetables in the patients diet. She authored over 200 books, reports and pamphlets on nurs...
interests and values considered and respected in the decision-making process" (Fly and Johnstone, 2002). This rationale is undoubt...
is a term that refers to "a formal way of thinking (i.e. conceptualizing) about a process/system under study" (Conceptual Framewor...
makes the point that EBP involves more than simply utilize research evidence; and Penz and Bassendowski emphasize this point by s...