psychological morbidity in cancer patients.International Journal of Palliative Nursing‚ 6(10)‚ 501-507. Retrieved from EBSCOhost. Farrell‚ M. & Dempsey‚ J. (2011). Smeltzer & Bare’s textbook of medical- surgical nursing (2nd ) Philadelphia :Lippincott William & Wilkins Ferrell‚ B.‚ Levy‚ M.‚ & Paice‚ J. (2008). Managing pain from advanced cancer in the palliative care setting. Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing‚ 12(4)‚ 575-581. Retrieved from EBSCOhost. Legg‚ M. (2011). What is psychosocial
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Nursing is a profession which has evolved tremendously in the past century. From the dawn of time nursing has existed‚ in one form or another. This has contributed to it gaining recognition as a profession. According to.............profession has been defined as “an occupation that requires extensive education or a calling that requires special knowledge‚ skill‚ and preparation”. Since healthcare varies between cultures‚ nurses have historically taken on many different roles‚ these include folk
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Nursing Organizations Lindsay Tafs Daytona State University Nursing Organizations Nurses are among the largest group of healthcare personnel in the United States. There are approximately 3.6 million registered nurses (About ANA). Organizations exist at the national and state levels as well as numerous specialties‚ from emergency medicine to hospice. Each organization can have multiple functions but all serve to represent nurses and maintain high standards of clinical practice
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for ethics and social ethics. Introduction: Explorations of the gap individual and social ethics and attempts to bridge this gap‚ have resulted in either detailed philosophical abstraction (Mukerjee 1950) or proposals to measure the subjective potential between impartiality and utilitarianism (Mongin‚ 2001). One phenomenon that occurs in this cleft which may explain individual and social ethical thinking and decision making is that of compassion. This essay will briefly describe ethics and
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Nursing Shortage and Nursing Turn Over Nursing shortage and turnover is an enormous issue affecting nurses in the delivery of patients’ care. Nursing shortages have been shown to cause unfavorable effects which include decreased job satisfaction‚ decreased access to care‚ and can lead to increased turn over. This paper is about nursing shortages and nursing turn overs‚ and how the author would expect nursing leaders and managers to approach this issue. The writer’s rational would be supported by
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Chapter 1‚ Introducing Business Ethichs What is business ethics? Business Ethics (BE) has been called an oxymoron. By an oxymoron‚ we mean the bringing together of two apparently contradictory concepts. The statement also suggests that there are not‚ or cannot be‚ ethics in business. However‚ there appears to be good reason to suggest that business ethics as a phenomenon‚ and as a subject‚ is not an oxymoron. Whilst there will be disagreements about what exactly constitutes “ethical” business
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A. Marketing Issues in Business Ethics: Marketing tobacco and alcohol. Discuss the ethics of marketing tobacco‚ marketing alcohol‚ or both‚ in terms any or all of the following: (1) underage customers‚ (2) target marketing ethnic groups and/or women‚ (3) moving questionable practices that have been abandoned in the United States to markets in developing nations. Discuss the ethics of marketing tobacco in ways that are illegal in the United States (i.e‚ to children during television shows
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Personal and Professional Development This assignment will discuss proficiency from within the pre-registration clinical profile. The proficiency to be discussed shall be clause 4.1 ’Personal and Professional Development ’. The rationale as to why this proficiency was chosen was to reflect on a challenging situation in regards a client with personality disorder‚ which the author experienced during a clinical placement. The client who shall be referred to as ’Trevor‚ ’ as to protect his identity
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mobility r/t muscle weakness and disease process self care deficit: dressing and grooming r/t cognitive impairment chronic confusion r/t impaired decision making ineffective coping r/t impaired information processing noncompliance with nursing staff r/t behavior problem due to mental decline impaired verbal communication r/t aphasia-speech deficit risk for falls r/t muscle weakness risk for impaired skin integrity r/t bedridden/chairbound - History of Trauma - Time‚ cause
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1. ETHICS‚ VALUES‚ AND ATTITUDES Ethics is a set of beliefs about right and wrong behaviour. Ethical behaviour conforms to generally accept social norms. Ethics is a philosophical study of the moral value of human conduct and of the rules and principles that ought to govern it. A social‚ religious‚ or civil code of behaviour considered correct‚ esp. that of a particular group‚ profession‚ or individual. Under this is: * A virtue is a Habit that inclines people to do what is acceptable.
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