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nurses can become political active, as these organizations frequently play an active role in establishing public policy by publica...

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

nurse job satisfaction and the development and implementation of a patient care delivery model at New Hampshire Hospital?" (Allen...

is a time for considerable growth and learning, so it stands to reason that with the child a veritable sponge of curiosity, he or ...

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...

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

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...

in harmony and when they dont, osteoporosis is the result (Kantrowitz, 2007). Bone mineral density is generally measured as a T-s...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

country is not only complex and troublesome, but it is also quite an involved process. Even more exasperating is the quest to con...

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

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

proven to be the principal reason for nosocomial infections, that is, infections that are acquired after hospital admittance. Impo...

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

in the U.S. stands at 8.5 percent to over 14 percent, depending on the specific area of specialty (Letvak and Buck, 2008), by 2020...

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

stressor pileup. Therefore, in their model, they double the concepts labels, using a capital letter behind each of the original la...

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

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

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

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...