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quality and safety for the care they can expect to receive from nurses and midwives and other health professionals are the same" (...

individual family member are considered within this context (Friedman, Bowden and Jones 37). In analyzing the various theories th...

supply and the importance of fruit and vegetables in the patients diet. She authored over 200 books, reports and pamphlets on nurs...

nurses are part of this generation and a large majority of nurses are retiring. It has been estimated that 50 percent of the count...

are possess "awareness and intention," and can construct a sense of self-identity and meaning," which includes the ability to choo...

background of hospital RNs is a significant factor in providing quality nursing care, as this study showed that the level of educa...

patient care (Hassmiller and Cozine, 2006). Some strategies proposed by RWJF for helping to decrease the tremendous workload on nu...

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

with their illness decreases and their partners ability to help them with the process is impeded as well. Decreased communication...

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

industry. There are five general risk categories: safety risks, strategic risks, hazard risks, financial risks and operational ris...

young masses. II. PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS The need for artificial stimulation has long been associated with the ...

the standards of utility, feasibility, propriety and accuracy (CDC, 1999). These standards are defined by the CDC in the followin...

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

selection process, to ensure both that the right staff with the correct skills and characteristics are selected as well as to ensu...

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...

variety of immunologic features that are similar to autoimmune hypotheroidism, such as "high serum concentrations of antibodies ag...

(BNE:NPA, 2006). To investigate for heart disease was clearly indicated by physicians orders and, furthermore, Eddie failed to not...

of jury selection procedures" (Oliver and Wolfinger, 1999, p. 147). Second Example : "Jury service in the United States is both ...

naturally create a prime source of psychic conflict for nurses, which would facilitate the development of burnout. Jenkins, Ellio...

between those who supported mandatory staffing ratios, based on research such as the study conducted by Linda Aiken, and the stanc...

additional criteria for consideration is that the "ideal antiemetic drug" should be sufficiently cost-effective for routine use (D...

of the study by stating it explicitly: "The purpose of this study was to explore how undergraduate nursing students learn to care ...

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 ...

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

perceived self-efficacy (Capik, 1998). JJ explained how Penders theory guides her priorities in establishing educational goals, ...

move in concentric circles of caring--from individuals, to others, to community, to (the) world" (Vance, 2003). Caring science inv...

2005, p.165). In obese children, the number of fat cells present in the body can be as much as three times higher than in normal w...