SEARCH RESULTS

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

Background/Review of Literature The eight articles/studies that constitute this literature review encompasses several key concept...

a peaceful death among terminal patients. HSBs of specific groups of any size - whether large or small - are positively related t...

in any other state must, as of January 1, 2008, have a masters or another advanced graduate degree in nursing (Phillips, 2005). Wi...

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...

rituals of this religion in order to offer quality care. They should know, for instance, that an Orthodox Jew is required to wash ...

at the moment of unconcealedness. She wanted a poet to describe nurses work: not what was visible, such as the emptying of a bedp...

imagines that implementation of the practicum could take several different formats. For example, it may consist of formulating a c...

nurses by 2012 to eliminate the shortage (Rosseter, 2009). By 2020, the District of Columbia along with at least 44 states will ha...

time to actively conduct a research study, lack of time to read current research, nurses do not have time to read much of the rese...

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

should be political informed by drawing on a variety of sources for information; vote for the candidates and/or ballot issues that...

to proper interaction with culturally diverse patients: "These standards provide comprehensive definitions of culture, competence,...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

ability to empower and grow people" (Gokenbach, 2003, p. 8). Over the past decade, there have been numerous studies that have fou...

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

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...

to work efficiently and effectively across cultural boundaries. This concept also encompasses not only the assumption that nurses,...

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

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

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

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

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