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critical matters, employee requests for information often go unanswered for too long. Results can and have been employee frustrat...
reporting and administrative reporting so that the owner can have confidence that HHH is providing superlative patient care and me...
the prevalence of UI was high in this region of the country and particularly high among African Americans in two of the states, wh...
The following are research questions that could be asked of staff members regarding whether the program is needed: * Are there pat...
Integrity in this sense is about wholeness as opposed to how we often use the term (to mean honesty) (Johansson, 2002). It is abou...
there is no cure either for Alzheimers disease or the various forms of dementia on the horizon, healthcare practitioners should "i...
have "little or no training in fundamental management skills" (Baer, 2006, p. 60). As well as absenteeism, problems with managemen...
In 2001, health care spending as a percentage of GDP was 14.1 percent, or $5,035 per capita (Levit, Smith, Cowan, Lazenby, Senseni...
This paper outlines a dilemma that arises when a patient requests secrecy upon revealing physical abuse to a student nurse. There...
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...
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...
the problem and to eliminate it where possible. Nester (1998) quantifies the extent of the problem relating that an estimated 1,2...
management, in recent years, has been quite extensive. This body of empirical evidence and commentary largely supports the concept...
the women who have traditionally filled nursing positions will undoubtedly continue to pursue other professional opportunities tha...
recognized categories for APNs within this state (TBoN, 2006). The scope of practice for Tennessee APNs includes the legal abili...
paternalistic approach that has been favored by physicians. Watsons theory stresses nurses should "honor anothers becoming, autono...
for my patients. Personal philosophy of nursing: Tourville and Ingalls (2003) offer a fascinating and very apt analogy to descri...
to individuals connected by a blood tie. However, to be a "family," members must "live in close contact, care for one another, an...
The proposed policy is: Build more units for the elderly and secure more affordable housing for the Elderly in the private sector ...
This essay includes three sections. The fist section reflects on tempered change strategies as described in a journal article. The...
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 ...
established that nurses are often involved in the "timely identification of complications," which, if acted upon swiftly, prevent ...
(Green, 2004a). A travel nurse, on the other hand, is typically contracted to work a 13-week period, and this usually includes an ...