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This paper applies a social psychological theory to a current event. The paper demonstrates how the theory can be applied to a ver...

In a paper of ten pages, the author reflects on nursing theories and educational theories, including constructivism and the theori...

What should a nurse do when she knows that a surgeon is incompetent and killing children on his operating table? Even today, there...

This research paper presents an annotated bibliography pertaining to the effects of the nursing shortage on the delivery of health...

This research paper pertains to the nursing shortage and discusses its current state and possible policy approaches. Six pages in ...

The organizational behavior problem selected for this analysis is nurse fatigue. Thousands of nurses arrive at work in a state of ...

Another issue is that of inexperience. Because nursing tends to be such a high turnover field, new graduates are frequently hired ...

US shortage has caused many healthcare institutions to look for nurses outside their countrys borders and many nurses are leaving ...

educators in the past, are lured away from academia by better-paying positions in clinical and private practice (Mee, 2003). Furth...

for registered nurses by 2010 (Feeg 8). While statistics such as these have received a great deal of press, what is less well kno...

Domain concepts Health: The traditional understanding of "health" is that is the absence of illness and/or injury. However, for ...

due to a number of reasons. First of all, the average age of the population is getting progressive older. As a people. America, an...

to others, at least not as frequently as would seem reasonable if they liked it as well as the general public does. The reason mo...

If all factors remain the same, by 2030, the shortage could reach the 1 million mark (Chandra and Willis, 2005). There are tremend...

individual is an "open system," which includes "distinct, but integrated physiological, psychological and socio-cultural systems" ...

Nightingale as power-crazed and iron-willed. Salvage (2001) tends to believe that these criticisms of Nightingale reflect lingerin...

In 2001, health care spending as a percentage of GDP was 14.1 percent, or $5,035 per capita (Levit, Smith, Cowan, Lazenby, Senseni...

budget restraints. Nurses leave the profession because they are "distressed by being unable to provide quality nursing care, disgr...

1999). Elderly patients who are alert, and not declared incompetent, have the right to refuse treatment, which includes turning or...

Beginning in the early 1990s, managed care targeted nursing as an expenditure where hospitals could cut costs. Managed care consul...

have simply left the profession (Fox and Abrahamson, 2009). Buerhaus, Auerbach and Staiger (2009) reported that while there has b...

for certainty is that as demand for health care services grows, nurses will be pressed more and more into taking over doctors duti...

Nursing (Webber, 2007). However, this is not a long-term solution. The long-term solution to achieving an adequate nursing force f...

be vulnerable to abuse or neglect for a variety of reasons and in a variety of situations, which range from home care to care in r...

to identify and to relate in terms of actual patient care. Ida Jean Orlando created a conceptual view of the nursing process whic...

a little less than a third of them were under the age of 40 (Meadows, 2002, p. 46). This offered conclusive proof that number of ...

of the great need for Hispanic nurses which has been created by the growing Hispanic population, this occupational choice presents...

* Time over Money - Employees today seek more personal time versus financial compensation. * Professional versus Personal Role - ...

causing in increase in health services. Furthermore, the US workforce of Registered Nurses (RNs) are aging as well. The ironic fac...

since the survey was initiated in 1977, for example, between 1992 and 1996, the number of nurses grew by 14.2 percent (Mee, 2001)....