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driving distance, visiting with friends, and participating in a variety of church activities. Also, both children play sports whic...

directly with families in their home, aiding them with complex care situations (Denham, 2003). How has the family changed? In 20...

3). In regards to the change process itself, Kurt Lewin, in his pioneering work on this topic in the 1950s, has pointed out that...

Batesons cybernetics model (Niolan, 2002). Tucker (2002, PG) notes that to Bateson familial problems exist in a system of units a...

reflect not the leadership skills themselves, but the way that the leader chooses to use them. In the commercial environment lea...

result in improvements (Mintzberg et al, 2008; Reed et al, 1996). Defining TQM is difficult, there is no standard definiti...

in the 1980s by a "group of medical educators at McMasters University in Ontario, Canada" (Haneline 2007, p. 3). This group made t...

their practices for lapses in technique, identify areas of improvement, and continue to grow as professionals. This paper will pre...

take if he or she wants to provide care in a rural context. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Social Functioning When social wo...

and by 1867 Joseph Lister had introduced to role of antiseptics by his practice of spraying surgical instruments with carbolic aci...

This paper analyzes an article by Suzanne B. Johnson that discusses the paradigm shift in health care away from the biomedical mod...

This paper discusses Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and the role that nurses play in implementing and utilizing these record sy...

Science and practice of psychotherapy have been at odds for decades. Each has different goals: knowledge for its own sake or knowl...

the tool and consider what factors should be considered when looking at undertaking environmental scanning the first stage is to d...

age that are frequently expressed within Western society evolve, at least partially, from the changes in social status that occur ...

students with concepts and ideas that are presented in a disorganized fashion (Stein, Carmine and Dixon, 1998). When this occurs, ...

as a therapeutic relationship between patient and nurse (Frisch and Kelley, 2002). Other theorists since that time have examined t...

the controls may be seen as the result of a highly developed and complex system. Two countries that may be placed into this...

to promote schools, schools where medical pursuits were blended with the ecclesiastical (Draper, 1992). These schools would ultima...

of anxiety, and relate these to nursing studies, protocols for care and general theory and practice. As a result, this study will...

As this writer/tutor can only speculate on what the students personal values are, it is suggested that the student include a state...

viewpoints that articulate their own unvoiced feelings toward their profession. For example, in a discussion in an online nursin...

body. Though "the VG site has long been established as an optimal site, not all nurses use it" (Scott and Marfell-Jones, 2004; p....

that is, a full-fledged study, the independent variable refers to the part of the methodology that is manipulated and the dependen...

For example, in regards to nurse practitioners from other state, the law states, "The Board (meaning the Board of Nursing) may iss...

to work efficiently and effectively across cultural boundaries. This concept also encompasses not only the assumption that nurses,...

legislation that authorizes a Nurse Licensure Compact (National Council of the State Boards of Nursing, Nurse Licensure Compact, 2...

perceived self-efficacy (Capik, 1998). JJ explained how Penders theory guides her priorities in establishing educational goals, ...

move in concentric circles of caring--from individuals, to others, to community, to (the) world" (Vance, 2003). Caring science inv...

concerns the how NP practice has been implemented in countries other than the US. The majority of research articles available in v...