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York University School of Nursing and became an advocate of the practice through her teaching of therapeutic touch techniques and ...

best standards of care (Whittemore, et al, 2002). The goal of nursing education in regards to diabetes treatment is to aid the ind...

prevention. Today, researchers are not disregarding the genetic component, but see this component as working in conjunction with o...

well as to demonstrate projections for use in future planning for nursing paradigms to address depression in elderly populations. ...

Frank seems reluctant to leave. Realizing that Frank needs to be met on a different level, Susan switches back to the "Be-with" mo...

In seven pages this paper presents a case scenario featuring a nursing care situation and possible change of employment environmen...

underlying the formulation of the nurse-patient relationship. According to Mallik (1998) a great deal of the literature on this to...

Bell (2000) reports that when an Australian hospital instituted shared governance, nurse managers responded "by developing a teamw...

risk factor, but is of less consequence among those diabetics who pay close attention to their blood sugar levels, test often and ...

cross to bear and they would be shamed to bring it to someone else. The healthcare worker must not attempt to alter the patients r...

already has been diagnosed as having some form of heart disease. In that sense, primary prevention is not possible. The goals of...

undergoes surgery for a hip arthroplasty 24 hours after admission. Twenty-four hours after surgery the nurses note that Mrs. Gale...

reveal a steady growth in the number of nurses joining unions due to discontent" (Blankenheim 2001, p. 13). They are doing so to l...

MEDMARX is thought to be the most comprehensive reporting of medication error information in the nation (Morantz & Torrey, 2003). ...

Conroy and Nottoli (1999) report the case of Henry, an irascible octogenarian who easily was the most difficult patient in the ski...

objective in conducting their study was to "describe the experience of men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer and their wives,...

is wheelchair bound, but nevertheless cooks for herself and shops for herself in a nearby grocery store, using her motorized wheel...

At the heart of nursing is the nurse-patient relationship, which provides the foundation for nursing care (Patusky, 2003). This r...

experience, particularly that immigrant experience as it occurs within the modern medical environment, revolves around cultural un...

and statistics. This approach works well for in physics and math, but less well when applied to people. Moloney (2002) offers thre...

military personnel and other non-combatants. While McConnell was seeing her charges safely to Japan, General Douglas MacArthur was...

caused by the illnesses the may then have a negative physiological backlash on the patient. For other condition it may be the ro...

the elderly. The Nurse Practitioner announced in its July 2000 issue that reports of the AMAs petition had been received as...

Registered Nurse. The service is meant to be used as a first step for residents in regards to assessment of their symptoms and if ...

Hendersons definition of the Orem model as being the "practice of activities that individuals initiate and perform on their own be...

should all be considered (OConnor and Walker, 2003). Traditionally, societys influence on educational planning has meant that the...

states, "The nurse promotes, advocates for, and strives to protect the health, safety and rights of the patient" (Code of Ethics f...

improve it, then nursing can truly be an invaluable profession to choose. This leads us to the reality of helping people. Perha...

does not receive (or seek) health care outside of prison. The literal captive audience allows health care professionals to offer ...

Today, the theories of Orem, Roy, Neuman, Rogers, King, and others seem to be more popular than older theories such as those of Fl...