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nurses should understand these patients thoroughly, "who they are, where they live and with whom, their current health status and ...

expectancy is increasing and more people are surviving serious illness and living longer with chronic illness. At the same time, t...

a minimum. He points out that the protection that the oil companies have "provided for wildlife" at their drilling sites at Prudho...

For example, Bostick (1935) makes copious use of footnotes, drawing on the works of Plato and Xenophon, who were two of Socrates d...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

a statement made early-on in the post, which is that nursing has the potential to make a huge contribution to the transformation o...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

their coworkers and their employees, because the leader creates a foundation from which the organizational goals can be achieved. ...

distributive leadership models, rather than hiring leaders, is that distributive leadership focuses on methods to develop and enco...

is commonly utilized in other discourse in relation to the management of energy resources not related to human physical function. ...

the personal growth and learning of second year student nurses working within two surgical units. The clinical logs produced by th...