YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Nursing Reflections
Essays 1651 - 1680
(1999), research shows that the level of education reached by an RN contributes to a sense of professional autonomy and those nurs...
lethal drug is given with the intent to bring about death, thus ending suffering" (28). Of course, there is a difference between ...
to physicians. Increasingly, "evidence-based guidelines are becoming codes of medical practice" (Healy, 2005; p. 54). Superficia...
over their blood glucose levels; and (3) encouraging continuous improvement in nursing knowledge and patient education. The progr...
a nurses role as a change agent in data base management. Fonville, Killian, and Tranbarger (1998) note that successful nurses of ...
the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...
her, per se, but rather with her expectations of Madeline, which are not age appropriate. The scenario says that Madeline knows be...
and safety" (ANA, 2005). After all, if a nurse does not take steps to preserve her or his own safety, the nurse cannot adequately ...
on an evidenced based evidence based practice and the development of increased individual accountability in the area of clinical g...
they visited, and some tended to visit fairly frequently (Demling et al, 2002). Patients in general were very positive about thei...
The ANCI Competency Unit 4 demands that nurses accept accountability and responsibility for their actions in nursing. To do so we...
greater demand on health care services as more of them cross that line from employed to retired. Projections are just that,...
the basic paradigms of nursing professional theory are considered within a social context. For example, health is defined as a "dy...
considering this economic downturn, the numbers of undergraduates pursuing nursing careers began to also decline. In 1991, Canada ...
learned long ago the value of yet another Deming (1986) exhortation, that of continuous improvement. By definition, the concept i...
Working for the well-staffed working environment in itself is no small task, given the fact of the ongoing nursing shortage. The ...
reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...
the disease as well as around the prevention of the spread of the causative organism to other individuals that come into contact w...
that the doctrine of informed consent is "hopelessly flawed--or at least misguided," as it is often not possible to truly inform ...
Sharon Bernier, RN, PhD and President of the National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing, points out that Aikens study also...
deaths each year are related to medications" (Meadows, 2003). The actual number is estimated to be much higher because these kinds...
as business practices, documentation systems, process flows and lines of communication can differ (Blevins, 2001) Home health nur...
today, but health care delivery appears to be more of a team project than the responsibility of one doctor. In earlier days, a nu...
staff them (Ocala, Fla., Hospitals Tackle Nursing Shortage, 2002). The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizati...
in acute care is sensitive about the use of drugs in recovering patients. Exposure of abuses of past years has raised awareness o...
life needs to change in response to the patients health care needs, then the nurse needs to be sensitive to that factor as well. ...
has focused on two corollary components: 1. the accuracy of body size estimations and 2. the attitudes and feelings individuals ...
charted component of my daily patient interaction. However, to remind myself of the other responsibilities during busy per...
operations of nursing" (Horan, Doran and Timmins, 2004, p. 30). This is broken down into three basic categories: 1) wholly compen...
percent); * Management by walking around (15 percent); * Coaching/empowerment (11 percent); * Team (7 percent); * Transformational...