“We do a good job of providing value for our clients,” Slade-Sowders said. “I have great care managers out in the field. They’re awesome.” Those care managers include nurses and social workers. Such services aren’t cheap. They’re typically $100 per hour or significantly more, dep...
However, as the aging population and demand for geriatric nurses increase worldwide, shortages of nurses seem to arise. This creates the need to assess and address the motivation and attitudes of nurses toward geriatric care. The intent of this qualitative study is to surface the essence or the...
Jesus once said to his disciples, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.” (Jn 4:34) As Jesus prays to the Father in John 17, he acknowledges that he has “brought [the Father] glory on earth by finishing” the work he was given to do. “...
we are registered nurses researching the opening an ALF in Florida. We’ve decided that we have to do this. We really enjoy bedside care and would like to have more human interaction. We are looking at a 3 bedroom facility. We would like to make it a seren haven. We do need advice ...
students who are aspiring to a high-status profession may have more negative attitudes towards interprofessional collaboration compared to students from other professions. In contrast, having a pro-social personality was found to influence job self-selection such that pro-social nurses tended to choose...
one should be wary of using a purely philosophical account in regard to particular act–omission pairs. Social life is more than a series of acts; rather, much of what we do is constituted by and in practice. If one is to properly characterize the ethical significance of an act–omission ...
Family relationships play a central role in wellbeing among older adults in Chile. Based on the theory of social production functions, this study examined the relationship between perceived social support from children, partners and relatives, family fun
The project nurse emphasised that communication between nurses and nutritionists also improved during the patient lunch, and that the racket from serving ware diminished: Before, it was just a bad room in which to move plates and cutlery around, but I don’t think this makes as much noise ...
Nurses, nurses aides, carers, psychiatrists and physiotherapists for example, may all be implicated in the mismanagement of benzodiazepines and, as described below, there are several examples of educational approaches targeted at some, or all, of these professions being of benefit in reducing ...