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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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

application of diagnostic tests or procedures to asymptomatic people for the benefit of dividing them into two groups: those who h...

2003). Most international nurses coming to the US come from the Philippines, but many also come from Canada and India with addit...

issue of regulatory interest when attached to direct patient care (Nursing, 2004). As few nurses with no patient responsibilities...

36). Both a therapeutic and social relationship are featured in the film Good Will Hunting (1997). The protagonist in the film, ...

students. Why is there a nursing shortage? Basically, there is a nursing shortage because governments have not done what was requ...

with hypochondria is that if someone really has an illness, they will think it is all in their heads. In any event, things were mi...

of sorts. The problem with hypochondria is that if someone really has an illness, they will think it is all in their heads. In any...

up billboards offering cash incentives, while nursing schools also originated creative means of recruiting more students (Wells). ...

the very act of following the "law" (i.e., supply and demand) of economics now has exacerbated the shortage of nurses who also are...

nurse, 2005). In addition to basic educational preparation at the RN level, oncology nursing practice also requires cancer-speci...