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the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...

for APNs. One such path is to be a nurse anesthetist, who is a licensed APN who is considered to be using personal professional ju...

I replied that I could develop a program with her supervision, that nurses were more interested in furthering their training than ...

In the meantime, I plan to study teaching strategies and rationale, and also expand my personal travel experiences. Today as neve...

ethics are a part of the concern. The hospital should not accept a patient load that it cannot handle. Another example of an issue...

paradigms According to Parse (1987), the simultaneity paradigm of nursing offers a substantially different view worldview than th...

must have at least some knowledge of the topic of discussion beforehand, or the discussion can disintegrate into an exercise in "p...

has been with us for several years, and it is widely publicized. The result is that the nursing shortage not only affects the qua...

This left Mee with little opportunity to connect with these patients as human beings and she started "to feel like a machine," whi...

affects specific individuals, but the future of society as a whole. As HIV infection has affected African American youth in greate...

the mountains in California, ride a horse in the Grand Canyon, volunteer in a cancer center, finish painting his house, attend his...

formulation with others, testing new behaviors, integrating this learning into "new, more satisfying behavior, and then using thes...

factors that have been identified include "diabetes, alcoholism, malnutrition, history of antibiotic or corticosteroid use, decrea...

information about the shortage of nurses and the consequences. This was achieved as demonstrated in the following brief report of ...

provide effective communication, the Band Aid song "Do They Know Its Christmas" a song which led to Live Aid was effective; this w...

the stage of evaluation is being one mainly concerned with health-related assessment activities so that progress can be measured a...

planning evaluation to those patients, conducted or overseen by a registered nurse, social worker or other appropriately qualified...

be increased substantially, of course, by those immigrants families who would likely be admitted to the country as well. The inte...

relationships between self-care agency and the self-care demand" (Kumar, 2007, p. 106). Within the context of Self-Care Deficit ...

entails job commitment and a resolution to not to waste time resisting change processes simply because they contradict the way in ...

of nursing and by lobbying" both Congress and regulatory agencies in regards to healthcare issues that affect nursing (ANA, 2008)....

12-21, live relatively sedentary lives, as they are not active enough to successfully maintain good health (Covelli, 2007). The in...

report, admissions, and emergency situations" (Griffin, 2003, p. 135). The rationale for this policy is that it protects the confi...

to God or to some type of "Ultimate Reality" (16). Such an experience differs from religious insight in that a religious insight ...

the ability of an institution to deliver quality, error-free care. At the Six Sigma level, there are roughly "3.4 errors per one m...

college degree is now a requirement for all registered nurses. A nursing major is comprised of a diverse and challenging liberal ...

(Allmark, 2003, p. 4). Poststructuralism: This perspective takes a deconstructive view of structuralism and "sees inquiry as ine...

Background/Review of Literature The eight articles/studies that constitute this literature review encompasses several key concept...

to five-times the risk for CHD, which contrasts sharply with the double risk encountered in African American men. There is also a ...

nurses are part of this generation and a large majority of nurses are retiring. It has been estimated that 50 percent of the count...