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in the home and individuals suffering from dementia. The background literature review sites a wide range of sources, including res...
The writer looks at a research article by Lach and Chang (2007) entitled Caregiver Perspectives on Safety in Home Dementia Care" p...
computerized or electronic patient records. 1c. To discuss these findings with supervisor/mentor to consider how the information...
the staff endeavors not only to care for our residents physical needs, but also for their psychological, social, and emotional nee...
being examined from the physical perspective it was also necessary to look at the falls from a practical, social and a psychologic...
falls. Of course, performance measures must utilize meaningful metrics if the performance they measure is to be of any use to the ...
The paper is a presentation designed to introduce and explain a new fall prevention policy for a home care nursing agency. The pr...
The writer provides some feedback that may have been provided by a mentor, looking at a presentation given by the student. The pr...
the problem and to eliminate it where possible. Nester (1998) quantifies the extent of the problem relating that an estimated 1,2...
in order so that it can be determined if all of the childs educational needs are being met. Aiding disabled children in reaching t...
that time. What might be needed, then, would be some plan of action that the staff could follow, or possibly some type of polite s...
a nurse to determine which elderly patients are being abused because a sense of shame or a desire to protect the family member who...
Not only are the direct health impacts to the nurse deleterious, impaired nurses cannot meet their responsibility to provide top q...
"chronic, heavy drinking" (Enoch and Goldman, 2002, p. 192). According to government standards, a woman is at-risk for heavy drink...
have access to a range of drugs. Bennett (et al, 2000) argues that the overall rate of substance abuse in the nursing popualtion r...
This paper outlines a dilemma that arises when a patient requests secrecy upon revealing physical abuse to a student nurse. There...
the women who have traditionally filled nursing positions will undoubtedly continue to pursue other professional opportunities tha...
management, in recent years, has been quite extensive. This body of empirical evidence and commentary largely supports the concept...
to individuals connected by a blood tie. However, to be a "family," members must "live in close contact, care for one another, an...
(Cunningham, 2008). Observed Results Cortez (2008) states that in the past, patients had been known to call 911 from their ...
recognized categories for APNs within this state (TBoN, 2006). The scope of practice for Tennessee APNs includes the legal abili...
for my patients. Personal philosophy of nursing: Tourville and Ingalls (2003) offer a fascinating and very apt analogy to descri...
paternalistic approach that has been favored by physicians. Watsons theory stresses nurses should "honor anothers becoming, autono...
reality of the profession. It needs a makeover much as it had in the 19th century in Brittan when nursing reformers struggled to h...
have otherwise been a lingering existence in private homes or disreputable hospitals. Inasmuch as the nurse is "temporarily the c...
of the site is that it connects to numerous opportunities for continuing education and there is a page dedicated to this purpose. ...
when nurses are needed the most, which is when we are ill (line 12). This is when "Nurses come through, with their care and goodwi...
A pertinent issue to foreign nurse recruitment, as a method for alleviating the shortage of nurses in US hospitals, is the number ...
(Green, 2004a). A travel nurse, on the other hand, is typically contracted to work a 13-week period, and this usually includes an ...
noted that cases of a rare lung infection, pneumocystis carinni pneumonia, had occurred in Los Angeles and also that three young m...