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the incidence of the deaths that were preventable, and also developed the polar-area diagram as a way of demonstrating the impact ...

scientific investigation and treatment of trauma and/or death of victims of abuse, violence, criminal activity, and traumatic acci...

and settings. Individuals reactions to the same stressors can be quite different, with one stressor creating significant stress r...

the chaos," she said (Serafini 1490). This nurse further stated that sometimes ER nurses are called to the intensive care unit for...

or other special attention to the wounds caused by burns. Each day s/he spends in the hospital is creating another reason for the...

and Begun, 1996). The American Nurses Association has embraced an ambitious platform consisting of issuing formal policy statem...

techniques or theories as they pertain to the medical world, and it is as if the prison setting is the last place where these tech...

of the patients in a single unit will be assigned to one RN; the other half will be assigned to another. Another will be availabl...

or understanding when the staff or the doctors have to move on to the next client. Many patients complain that their healthcare pr...

Today, the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that it is no longer only added stress and long hours for those...

the realization of the "dehumanizing" of patients that led to them being referred to as "Bed x," "Case x" or some other nameless, ...

perceived self-efficacy (Capik, 1998). JJ explained how Penders theory guides her priorities in establishing educational goals, ...

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

move in concentric circles of caring--from individuals, to others, to community, to (the) world" (Vance, 2003). Caring science inv...

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...

p. 311). Specifically, this study focused on discerning how indicators of the "psychosocial work climate" affected the frequency w...

nurse working on a medical unit at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center. According to Kodet, the only thing ...

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

naturally create a prime source of psychic conflict for nurses, which would facilitate the development of burnout. Jenkins, Ellio...

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

In twelve pages English nurse Florence Nightingale's life and many innovative nursing profession contributions are examined. Six ...

dedication and focus on doing a good job. But, hesitancy to delegate takes the manager away from more important work and results ...

In five pages this paper examines how psychiatric nursing's role has developed in this professional literature overview on the top...

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

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

all aspects of nursing. While the prime relationship in nursing is the one between the nurse and patient, relationships between nu...

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

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

In eight pages this essay discusses efforts to reconcile euthanasia and the Nurse's Code in a consideration of the ethics nonmalef...

In seven pages the confidentiality issues nurses must contend with are discussed within the weighty context of the trust between p...