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seek the same health goals for clients as in mainstream nursing, nurses in remote locations often cope with problems and obstacles...

potential need for treatment for impaired skin integrity due to immobility. Therefore, the nurse will begin precautions prior to a...

quality of the provided care (ANA, 2008). Empirical research studies have confirmed that the risk for medical error increase subst...

is three times the average for all other age groups (AOA, 2010). Average doctor visits in a year were 6.5 for ages 65 to 74 and 7....

nurse to patient ratio in California. In 1992 and 1993 the California Nurses Association has sponsored the Democratic Senator Jack...

and fatigue, abdominal pain, vomiting, constipation and learning difficulties" ("Lead"). These physiological effects are caused by...

to a patient over the phone and trying to convey the urgency of that patient coming in for a consultation. The patient resists, so...

(2005), in which samples of patients or patients families were enrolled. In a study in which the sample participants had lost a lo...

harms the healthcare systems of the home countries of these nurses, which ethically and morally limits its use. Another method t...

have access to a range of drugs. Bennett (et al, 2000) argues that the overall rate of substance abuse in the nursing popualtion r...

in resistant strains of bacteria (Plonczynski, 2005). This situation suggests that changes in antibiotic prophylactic procedures ...

that the legal struggle took on her family was immense. Her father never recovered emotionally and committed suicide (Colby, 2002)...

nurse practitioners how they could join the movement and help. The Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1989 included minimal reimbursem...

Developing New Nurse Leaders also considers the issue of shifts in leadership and governance, with a focus on the role of nurses a...

pilot study was performed first, in which the research tested the methodology. This also involved developing an interview schedule...

imply, a standardized nursing language provides a "uniform nomenclature for the diagnosis, intervention, and evaluation components...

quality and care" of health services that offered to rural areas throughout the US (Clinton, 2007). In addition to providing fun...

generations. Though Nightingale promoted a professional demeanor, nursing was not something that most well-bred women would even ...

graduate nursing hires (Truman, 2004, p. 45). The novice nurses participate in six hours of classroom instruction, plus thirty hou...

endeavor. Nursing in any context requires a detailed knowledge of individual patients. Specifically, a forensic nurse will have a...

upholding the human dignity of the people involved, as well as their "unique biopsychosocial, cultural, (and) spiritual being" (LM...

indicated by Carter, census also frequently plays a vital role in this regard for nursing managers. Other factors that I considere...

that the working environment of the scenario is lacking, as the two nurses who are moonlighting, if this accusation is true, may h...

312). Various types of contracts characterize contemporary professional nursing. For example, due to the nursing staffing shorta...

may leave and go to another area, therefore, wages also need to be set with other areas wages to be taken into consideration. In...

A 3 page essay in which the writer offers a guide to writing about how a nurse's philosophy pertaining to the nature of humanity i...

which are factors that are likely to have a beneficial affect on the chronic nursing shortage that is currently affecting the heal...

frees him from this indignity and travesty of life by smothering him with a pillow and then escapes from the asylum (One Flew, 199...

back to Congress on the proposed legislation, either favorably or unfavorably (GovTrack, 2009b). They are first considered in the ...

can only be expected to escalate in the near future. Therefore, issues of affordability, in relation to equitable healthcare servi...