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In two pages this paper discusses how nurses can deal with the stress of their jobs with a 'hardy' personality as described in thi...
In five pages this paper examines the images of nursing and nurses within the context of the Carative model with individualized, d...
advocates, providing medical treatments prescribed by physicians, and keeping accurate records of changes in patient status (Nurse...
that have affected my choice of working as a nurse. Of course many people have these factors in common within their personal valu...
on the other hand, is much faster than analysis in that it is based on "immediate recognition of the key elements of a situation a...
of patients that not only speak about the medical problem, but also monopolize the staffs time by discussing volumes of informatio...
not only better oriented overall to do the job but who also would be paid enough to have an incentive to stay in the job or put ma...
use this possibility as an excuse to not provide other people, people who are obviously suffering tremendously and would inevitabl...
expected only to continue for several years to come. Then, growth will begin to decline in response to fewer numbers of people re...
several problems with recent immigrants, however. These include language barriers, not having completed a GED, limited healthcare...
blatant display of irreverence, with some of the worst infractions found within the health care industry. The cramped, dark and u...
most often have a great deal of training and, in most mainstream settings, are also nurses or nurse-midwife practitioners. Many ar...
management. Howard Leventhal is responsible for developing an important research model that can be easily tailored to address any...
2003). Most international nurses coming to the US come from the Philippines, but many also come from Canada and India with addit...
images represent some aspect of nursing? Examination of this question shows that two of these images are particularly helpful in d...
nursing. Forchuk and Dorsay (1995) and Barker, Reynolds and Stevenson (1997) identify Hildegard Peplau as the first to apply nurs...
follow-up full medical treatment and counseling. 5. Bargain for violence-prevention provisions. 6. Make violence-prevention progra...
on the following (Nursingworld.org, 2004). * Human dignity * Commitment to the patient * Protection of the patients privacy and co...
issues of spirituality. In essence, the parish nurse has the ability to treat the whole patient, rather than only addressing symp...
formulation with others, testing new behaviors, integrating this learning into "new, more satisfying behavior, and then using thes...
Although the nursing professions is just now beginning to become more aware of the need for this type of approach it was first int...
doctoral degree in Psychology and Education in 1969" (Pender, n.d.a). She found psychological research to be rigorous and methodo...
their web site with which this nursing organization is involved. For instance, the AACN promotes a specific cardiovascular health ...
the changes that have occurred since she founded modern nursing. "Florence Nightingale provided us with a framework, relevant tod...
These authors conducted a large study of 3,830 individuals consisting of 17.8 percent nurses, 21.8 percent physicians, 29.6 percen...
considered one of a number of high stress jobs, and stress is problematic, causing inefficiencies, high staffing turnover rates an...
the central problem is often the inappropriate use of unlicensed personnel in the workplace setting. Though nurse mangers are ins...
of a unified health care organization that included both Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH...
recognition of cultural and social influences on health care outcomes. As a result, advanced practice nurses have also become int...
In seven pages this paper discusses the nurse leader in a consideration of skills, theory, and recommendations on how crisis manag...