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it comes to orders, medications, tests, transfers and so on. Another problem for both physicians and nurses is identifying all p...

thinks is, to a certain extent, a result of genetic influences; however, this capacity is also highly influenced by the process o...

a specialized body of knowledge, skills and experience that enables these nurses to offer a high standard of care to critically il...

considered one of a number of high stress jobs, and stress is problematic, causing inefficiencies, high staffing turnover rates an...

advocates, providing medical treatments prescribed by physicians, and keeping accurate records of changes in patient status (Nurse...

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...

of the greatest areas of concern. Finding sufficient time for school, as well as all other activities required of the student, was...

influential resource and is a resource in which the patient will rely. Ethics Issues In this paper the treatment of a pati...

students. Why is there a nursing shortage? Basically, there is a nursing shortage because governments have not done what was requ...

36). Both a therapeutic and social relationship are featured in the film Good Will Hunting (1997). The protagonist in the film, ...

issue of regulatory interest when attached to direct patient care (Nursing, 2004). As few nurses with no patient responsibilities...

to the wide-ranging aspect of nursing than merely administering medicine; in fact, the myriad components that ultimately comprise ...

and continues to do so, over the past two decades, as it was first published in 1979 (Falk-Rafael, 2000). In formulating her theor...

2003). Most international nurses coming to the US come from the Philippines, but many also come from Canada and India with addit...

up billboards offering cash incentives, while nursing schools also originated creative means of recruiting more students (Wells). ...

the very act of following the "law" (i.e., supply and demand) of economics now has exacerbated the shortage of nurses who also are...

the central problem is often the inappropriate use of unlicensed personnel in the workplace setting. Though nurse mangers are ins...

which a person demonstrates fundamental functioning in their life environment (Jones and Kilpatrick, 1996). In other words, the c...

the nursing theorists that have come after her (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003). The interactive model focuses on the significant of ...

2005, p.165). In obese children, the number of fat cells present in the body can be as much as three times higher than in normal w...

Family crisis). However, society itself is made up of smaller units, of which the family is one, and therefore structural function...

much broader in its application. It is this broadness that allows nurses to reach across religious lines and distinctions. In a su...

of the patient experience" (Engebretson 20). The background provided by a large, close-knit family means that, from childhood, I h...

are necessary for patient survival" (Kelley, 2005, p. 2). When the blood volume in the body is too low, it activates "compensatory...

in nursing educators aged 36 to 45 (Lewallen, et al, 2003). To complicate matters further, recent statistics show that nurses wh...

critique of this study will both summarize and analyze the various sections of Coetzees article, which describes this research, a...

of the study by stating it explicitly: "The purpose of this study was to explore how undergraduate nursing students learn to care ...

partners in the healthcare process. Through training and education, nurses learn to make decisions on multiple issues of patient c...

a mentor and/or a preceptor. Mentoring is the "process through which a relationship is established between an experienced indivi...