Essays 301 - 330
interactions with their patients and with each other have. Kurt Lewins change theory holds that change is incremental. It occurs...
In twelve pages this paper presents the argument that nursing should be regarded not as a science but as an art. Ten sources are ...
body. Though "the VG site has long been established as an optimal site, not all nurses use it" (Scott and Marfell-Jones, 2004; p....
particular certified nurse-midwives-- continues to increase, these impediments linger to a certain extent, and may continue to aff...
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...
not unusual given that there is a common perception that the higher a persons educational attainment the greater level of employme...
has focused on two corollary components: 1. the accuracy of body size estimations and 2. the attitudes and feelings individuals ...
the mountains in California, ride a horse in the Grand Canyon, volunteer in a cancer center, finish painting his house, attend his...
the word alone that Watsons ideology is based not just upon clinical actions but upon the implementation of emotional availability...
money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely would no...
accomplishing the task or objective rather than on people (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004). They make the policies and rules ...
This left Mee with little opportunity to connect with these patients as human beings and she started "to feel like a machine," whi...
for nurses who come into intimate contact with clients from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. Ott, Al-Khadhuri and Al-Junaibi...
are working, for example, in pediatrics(Sherman 2004). Therefore, she suggests, as many have, that the nursing professional learn ...
to are not likely to be illicit drugs but rather the same prescribed drugs with which they treat their patients (Texas Medical Ass...
effectiveness has been studied extensively, and that studies consistently conclude that NP-based care is comparable to that origin...
in those nursing homes that maintained adequate staffing, but beyond that, the administrative climate of the nursing home facility...
associated with a considerable change in the traditional locus-of-control can be safely confronted, and professional practice can ...
the term public health nurses" (JWA - Lillian Wald, n.d.). The public health nurses at the turn of the 20th century visited...
basic assumptions surrounding specific topics. My short-term goals include developing Consultants in Complex Neurodisability, a h...
and nursing literature abounds with how such theories influence and guide nursing practice in all of its varied aspects. For exa...
led to alter his position. The old philosophers gave much attention to the issue of knowledge and epistemology. Aristotle ...
and Ingalls (2003) describe the four metaparadigms allegorically as the "roots" of a living tree, emphasizing that the metaparadig...
Understanding that there is a step by step progression, both physically and psychologically, can be part of the nurses role in thi...
how change can be effectively managed and challenges in the transformation of nursing and health care delivery. Clearly, Roys mod...
and with others interacting with the patient. Mezirow (1991) promotes the use of critical reflection in building new knowle...
criminal and social repercussions, creating a punitive response to alcoholism that can impact the views of service providers. Cha...
Under her wing, Nightingale took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to health. ...
a process that assumes that a persons own subjective construction of reality is more accessible than anything else. The process o...