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these reforms. The data revealed a "sense of tension and conflict between nurses traditional values, roles and responsibilities ...

the factors that make nursing unique The Department of Nursing at California State University at Fresno defines nursing as a "uni...

profession is very rewarding, if at times very difficult and even heartbreaking. This paper describes the Good Samaritan College o...

neighbor who incurred a head injury and did not want to go to a hospital because she lacked the funds to pay for treatment. Wardan...

the profession of nursing has developed some basic ideas that serve as the foundation that guides all subsequent professional prac...

Advances in technology have changed everything from how patients are diagnosed to acute care to managing chronic illnesses. Techno...

makes the point that EBP involves more than simply utilize research evidence; and Penz and Bassendowski emphasize this point by s...

overall umbrella of informatics (Ericksen, 2011). For example, nurses specializing in informatics within the context of a hospital...

verifies old knowledge (Wilkerson, 1998). As this suggests, the continuation of scholarly advances in the development of nursing t...

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 ...

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

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...

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

did you wonder about your stepfather being alive or dead? What you write may resemble the following: I was considered too young to...

of diabetes care, including blood/glucose monitoring, food intake monitoring, exercise monitoring, and insulin administration. Be...

interests and values considered and respected in the decision-making process" (Fly and Johnstone, 2002). This rationale is undoubt...

is a term that refers to "a formal way of thinking (i.e. conceptualizing) about a process/system under study" (Conceptual Framewor...

include an understanding of how insulin functions to control glucose levels and the interaction between variables that can affect ...

Sometimes the ability to perform foot self-exams for follow-up education or acute illness (Nettles, 2005, p. 44). Additionally, ...

quality and safety for the care they can expect to receive from nurses and midwives and other health professionals are the same" (...

task forces, committees, and organizational projects," while also serving as "resources to other nurses to facilitate advancing sk...

patient care (Hassmiller and Cozine, 2006). Some strategies proposed by RWJF for helping to decrease the tremendous workload on nu...

supply and the importance of fruit and vegetables in the patients diet. She authored over 200 books, reports and pamphlets on nurs...

are possess "awareness and intention," and can construct a sense of self-identity and meaning," which includes the ability to choo...

background of hospital RNs is a significant factor in providing quality nursing care, as this study showed that the level of educa...

individual family member are considered within this context (Friedman, Bowden and Jones 37). In analyzing the various theories th...

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

result that nursing pays well enough to support a family now, which is in great contrast to conditions in the distant past. The p...

required qualified, competent staff. This resulted in the establishment of training schools for nurses (Formal training, 2005). Un...