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For example, in regards to nurse practitioners from other state, the law states, "The Board (meaning the Board of Nursing) may iss...

approached his instructor for help and his nstructor invited him into his office to discuss the situation. The instructor then, ac...

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

of thousands of pounds of food every day on an international level (Gillespie, 2003). In 2003, the Red Cross joined "the Food and ...

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...

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

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

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

personal opinion can affect human behavior, and the frequently complicated nature of ethics complications in cancer research. It a...

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

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

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

the gastrointestinal system. Patients with no metastasis are more readily afforded the standard five-year survival rate compared ...

young girls to become promiscuous (Gulli, 2006). These groups emphasize that abstinence is the best protection against sexually tr...

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...

to break. To bring the point home, half a million people die each year from cigarette-related causes (Whelan, 1994, p. 77), with ...

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

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

harming healthy cells, which is a negative side effect of both radiation and chemotherapy (Meisheid, 2005). In 2003, the American...

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

devastating effects of cancer and the lack of available organs for the purposes of transplant. Indeed, the 1980s is often dubbed t...

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

: The precise causes of ovarian cancer remain unknown, but some researchers believe that it has to do with the processes of tissue...

It seems that within the context of the work, there is little compassion shown for the protagonist with the exception of one oncol...

they are working in the field now indicates that they understand the concepts and were successful in completing the ranges of stud...

the individual as a complete system with identifiable and separate segments. Neumans system theory has been widely studied and us...

individual, regardless of that individuals station in or stage of life. Todays nurse has many duties and answers to people and ad...

is interesting to note that the increase of smoking in America has steadily correlated with the increasing incidence of lung cance...