Essays 211 - 240
issues pertaining to focus group interview with regard to access, ethical issues, power and relevance (Benner, 1991; Morse, 1994; ...
for registered nurses by 2010 (Feeg 8). While statistics such as these have received a great deal of press, what is less well kno...
19th and early 20th centuries. Hughes and Romeo (1999) question the usefulness of education that does not address the growing div...
US shortage has caused many healthcare institutions to look for nurses outside their countrys borders and many nurses are leaving ...
individual, this woman does reflect on the past and has some regrets, but some optimistic comments are made as well. In evaluat...
While these definitions are extremely similar, a differences in emphasis can reflect a differing philosophical stance. The manner ...
lives, especially the course of their daily professional lives. We tend to get stuck in ruts where we rely on the same patterns an...
educators in the past, are lured away from academia by better-paying positions in clinical and private practice (Mee, 2003). Furth...
the religious fervor generated by the teachings of "love and mercy" by Jesus Christ resulted in a dramatic increase in charitable ...
an adolescent client (Wallis, 2004, p. 59). Data on the development of abstract reasoning skills, as well as of the "recognition o...
appears a simple enough way in which to establish the particular approach toward pain management for a given patient. However, re...
influential resource and is a resource in which the patient will rely. Ethics Issues In this paper the treatment of a pati...
first started to administer to the injured and the sick, the notion that nurses should be women has prevailed (Odendaul, 2004). T...
students. Why is there a nursing shortage? Basically, there is a nursing shortage because governments have not done what was requ...
condition, her lack of awareness of her own limitations or lack of limitations in activity, and her response to various types of p...
36). Both a therapeutic and social relationship are featured in the film Good Will Hunting (1997). The protagonist in the film, ...
a strategic factor in a broader movement toward social transformation that stresses social equity (Downey 249). This transformatio...
that is, whether it will spread (metastasize) and what symptoms that it is likely to cause (Cancer diagnosis, 2005). The term "sec...
the needs of the dying and her work indicates that there are times when the most meaningful communication that a nurse can offer i...
of ear infection (Chronic otitis media, 2003). OM is a serious childhood illness because, if not properly treated, it can lead to ...
act as integral members of healthcare teams, provide direct and indirect patient care, and address central issues for patients, in...
Leaders create the future rather than simply become its victims (Kerfoot, 1998). They are generally thinking several months ahead,...
ethnic distribution of the population in Paramus: White Non-Hispanic (75.5%) Hispanic (4.9%) Korean (4.8%) Asian Indian (4.5%...
when he cannot feel a pulse. A new nurse, a first year graduate, Sally enters the room, sees Long and runs out. She encounters Nur...
a specialized body of knowledge, skills and experience that enables these nurses to offer a high standard of care to critically il...
prepared for this role" (McKenna, 1997, p. 87). Perhaps most significant of all was Florence Nightingales belief that env...
in diagnostic, prescriptive, and regulatory operations of nursing" (Horan, Doran and Timmins, 2004, p. 30). From this perspective,...
nurse anesthetist. For one week, I watched the interactions between the nurse anesthetist and other professionals, as well as the...
in 2000, allowing a long comment period before the final rule was issued in February 2003. Five rules were published in 199...
or chronic illness; however, nurse practitioners also have additional intensive education that involves risk reduction and prevent...