SEARCH RESULTS

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

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" (...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

and technology, however, she refers to these elements as the "Trim," which is a term she originated that differentiates between ca...

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...

York found that, in the past, ambulance diversions were a seasonal event. However, more recent research finds that diversional sta...

illustrates how she ignored the potential for causing harm when she increased the patients drugs; only after the medication had be...

the study intervention. Also, as yet, Cook is not clear about the purposes, aims or goals of the study. Literature Review While ...

secretary, should leave the ward when there were fewer than three children on the unit and work a second adult unit as well. He wa...

potential for long term physiological complications as well as long-term emotional impacts. Not only does the type of care needed...

are licensed individuals who go through at least one year of formal education in addition to clinical instruction, and the focus o...

of a holistic approach to team management, and the integration of efforts to improve the overall function of nursing teams to redu...

of the nurses and the nurse population ratio is considered higher than most in the region (MoH, 2002). Recent advances in nursing ...

care. The team leader is responsible for overseeing and coordinating all of the elements of care and also delegates care of specif...

Aesthetic, the need for beauty, order and symmetry (Huitt, 2004). 7. Self-actualization is a plateau not all people reach. At this...

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

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...

concepts dominated the field of stress research beginning in the 1950s; however, by the 1970s, there was opposition to Selyes stre...

with their illness decreases and their partners ability to help them with the process is impeded as well. Decreased communication...

information. These guidelines are also based on this researchers finding that self-care promotes the pediatric patients spiritual ...

many of the findings of nursing research have little or no relevance to their daily practice. Im and Meleis (1999) cite several re...

This involves intensive, one-on-one teaching, which enables autistic children to learn the intricacies of behaviors or skills via ...