Essays 211 - 240
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...
viewpoints that articulate their own unvoiced feelings toward their profession. For example, in a discussion in an online nursin...
the most frequently reported intervention classifications for NPs were patient education, drug management, nutrition support, risk...
are under our care. By promoting healthy and better communication between us and the patient, we do not need to involve the famil...
2003, p. 50). Comments went on to say that it is disheartening when they arent acknowledged in any way for the hard work they do (...
the medical profession as a whole. Nurses themselves face a number of concerns in the performance of their jobs in organ transpla...
using similar tests and with mixed variables such as aromatherapy and hypnosis. All of the studies mentioned concluded that massag...
creates a document that addresses the extent to which the program is in compliance with the standards for accreditation published ...
between states and federal regulation. The purpose here is to determine whether the USAF advanced nurse practitioners are "functi...
been in operation for some time, and it currently is building a retirement community of duplexes for those over 55 who do not yet ...
is understandable given that MRSA is one of the primary threats in terms of diseases encountered in ICUs in the US. Over fifty pe...
viral disease that attacks the human immune system making it ineffective in fighting disease or sickness caused by microbial organ...
nursing shortage has meant for SNFs that they have fewer RNs available to them and that recruiting and retention has become more c...
are often called upon to provide comfort where there seems to be none, patience in the face of adversity, and grace under fire. Th...
should all be considered (OConnor and Walker, 2003). Traditionally, societys influence on educational planning has meant that the...
care system. Middaugh (2003) asserts that nursing management should provide emergency planning that spells out "what people should...
states, "The nurse promotes, advocates for, and strives to protect the health, safety and rights of the patient" (Code of Ethics f...
improve it, then nursing can truly be an invaluable profession to choose. This leads us to the reality of helping people. Perha...
military personnel and other non-combatants. While McConnell was seeing her charges safely to Japan, General Douglas MacArthur was...
a little less than a third of them were under the age of 40 (Meadows, 2002, p. 46). This offered conclusive proof that number of ...
and statistics. This approach works well for in physics and math, but less well when applied to people. Moloney (2002) offers thre...
the elderly. The Nurse Practitioner announced in its July 2000 issue that reports of the AMAs petition had been received as...
caused by the illnesses the may then have a negative physiological backlash on the patient. For other condition it may be the ro...