Essays 181 - 210
"interactive, systems, and developmental" approaches (Tourville and Ingalls 21). The systems model of nursing perceives the meta...
expectancy is increasing and more people are surviving serious illness and living longer with chronic illness. At the same time, t...
reality of the profession. It needs a makeover much as it had in the 19th century in Brittan when nursing reformers struggled to h...
A pertinent issue to foreign nurse recruitment, as a method for alleviating the shortage of nurses in US hospitals, is the number ...
homes. Rather, it is a high-quality facility dedicated to providing the best of care to its residents. Staff members are employe...
an advanced practice nurse. The benefits that a nurse midwife can bring to a first-time mother include information that the mothe...
(Cunningham, 2008). Observed Results Cortez (2008) states that in the past, patients had been known to call 911 from their ...
Fifteen pages and 8 sources. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the information available about job opportunities fo...
when nurses are needed the most, which is when we are ill (line 12). This is when "Nurses come through, with their care and goodwi...
This essay includes three sections. The fist section reflects on tempered change strategies as described in a journal article. The...
therapeutic manner (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003). This relationship may refer to a single individual, or the "person" may be a sma...
results from alcohol or drug misuse and which interferes with professional judgment and the delivery of safe, high quality care" (...
have otherwise been a lingering existence in private homes or disreputable hospitals. Inasmuch as the nurse is "temporarily the c...
practitioner surgeries are run by practice nurses, only making referrals to other members of the healthcare team when required, Th...
based on a research study that surveyed over 2,000 RNs who provide direct nursing care in three mid-western hospitals. This result...
that they are often asked to take care of more patients with higher acuity levels than they have in the past (Hassmiller and Cozin...
to nursing practice in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), as the welfare of each high-needs baby is intrinsically tied to fami...
whoever the client might be, that is, an individual, family, group or community. The third provision indicates that nurses are als...
between those who supported mandatory staffing ratios, based on research such as the study conducted by Linda Aiken, and the stanc...
several years. Psychologically, it has been found that individuals more actively involved with their own health care often fare m...
information. These guidelines are also based on this researchers finding that self-care promotes the pediatric patients spiritual ...
York found that, in the past, ambulance diversions were a seasonal event. However, more recent research finds that diversional sta...
This involves intensive, one-on-one teaching, which enables autistic children to learn the intricacies of behaviors or skills via ...
many of the findings of nursing research have little or no relevance to their daily practice. Im and Meleis (1999) cite several re...
these reforms. The data revealed a "sense of tension and conflict between nurses traditional values, roles and responsibilities ...
should be political informed by drawing on a variety of sources for information; vote for the candidates and/or ballot issues that...
verifies old knowledge (Wilkerson, 1998). As this suggests, the continuation of scholarly advances in the development of nursing t...
makes the point that EBP involves more than simply utilize research evidence; and Penz and Bassendowski emphasize this point by s...
interests and values considered and respected in the decision-making process" (Fly and Johnstone, 2002). This rationale is undoubt...
is a term that refers to "a formal way of thinking (i.e. conceptualizing) about a process/system under study" (Conceptual Framewor...