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and statistics. This approach works well for in physics and math, but less well when applied to people. Moloney (2002) offers thre...

military personnel and other non-combatants. While McConnell was seeing her charges safely to Japan, General Douglas MacArthur was...

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 ...

states, "The nurse promotes, advocates for, and strives to protect the health, safety and rights of the patient" (Code of Ethics f...

is understandable given that MRSA is one of the primary threats in terms of diseases encountered in ICUs in the US. Over fifty pe...

to a nursing facility, it should also be understood that each situation is unique. When both the family members and the staff of t...

should all be considered (OConnor and Walker, 2003). Traditionally, societys influence on educational planning has meant that the...

care system. Middaugh (2003) asserts that nursing management should provide emergency planning that spells out "what people should...

are often called upon to provide comfort where there seems to be none, patience in the face of adversity, and grace under fire. Th...

is they do, when they change their actions, then the image of nursing will change" (Watson, 1996, p. 142). Watson has recognized ...

and their insurers by operating under two distinct fee schedules. Medicare requires that care providers fees be "normal and custo...

between states and federal regulation. The purpose here is to determine whether the USAF advanced nurse practitioners are "functi...

been in operation for some time, and it currently is building a retirement community of duplexes for those over 55 who do not yet ...

with "depression, sleep disturbance, fatigue, and decreased overall physical and mental functioning" (Hearn, 2001). Problem Stat...

to produce better outcomes for patients and improve the conduct and performance of nurses and other health care employees on a dai...

as sadness. My Dad quickly smiled and patted me on the back, but in my heart I knew that my decision would forever change the cou...

Furthermore, if the ulcers end up in hospitalization, the nursing home is responsible for those costs as well. Even if the patient...

All of these studies reflect empirical studies of hospital populations in an effort to determine how changes in the healthcare env...

etiology of the disease is not well understood, but substantive research suggests that individuals who suffer from ALS have mutati...

my divorce are better understood in relation the traditional concept of a nuclear family. The term "nuclear family" brings to min...

on nurses increase (Cullen, 2003). Nevertheless, nurse educators and scholars stress that it is through recognition of caring as a...

the educational setting, and considers the role of school nurses. At a time when an increasing number of students are receiving s...

al, 2009). The theory came from "the results of studies accomplished by the author along her Doctorate in Clinic and Social Psycho...

sorrow; (b) relief from distress; (c) a person or thing that comforts; (d) a state of ease and quiet enjoyment, free from worry; (...

and each staff member were knowledgeable of hospital standards and policies in preparation for TJC or DHS inspection. We always ha...

risk. For example, Mahlmeister (1996) relates a pediatric situation in which a night nurse in a small hospital was expected to wor...

"population," which is then further defined as "a collection of individuals who share one or more personal or environmental charac...

quality of a patients life, (4) implementing managed care policies that threaten quality of care, and (5) working with unethical/i...

insight regarding the details of their normal everyday life and health concerns. Boutain sets the stage by reporting that one in...

nurses considering returning to school for a Masters of Science in Nursing (MSN), the perceived barriers include issues directly r...