SEARCH RESULTS

interests and values considered and respected in the decision-making process" (Fly and Johnstone, 2002). This rationale is undoubt...

is a term that refers to "a formal way of thinking (i.e. conceptualizing) about a process/system under study" (Conceptual Framewor...

Aesthetic, the need for beauty, order and symmetry (Huitt, 2004). 7. Self-actualization is a plateau not all people reach. At this...

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...

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

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...

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

particular, resilience is also crucial because each instance is completely unique and may require a different response. In other ...

nursing is based significantly more within the psychological components of the patient/caregiver relationship than most people rea...

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...

from pain that began after radiation therapy that caused nerve damage (Fischman, 2000). After receiving therapy at a pain clinic, ...

gives the appearance of increased attention to theory and evidenced-based nursing in an atmosphere of caring for the individual. ...

when Coco Chanel made the look desirable. Since that time, legions of youth and adults have sought to possess the "perfect" tan, ...

in the 19th and early 20th century, the fact is even more remarkable. "Well and Strong and Young" Updike writes that in 1854 Bar...

several years. Psychologically, it has been found that individuals more actively involved with their own health care often fare m...

the inclination is to treat the dying patient with as little emotion as possible, so as not to suffer emotionally as well, many nu...

fairly positive towards the 12-hour shift, but the nursing educators were extremely negative. The teaching staff opposed the use o...

ethics are a part of the concern. The hospital should not accept a patient load that it cannot handle. Another example of an issue...

paradigms According to Parse (1987), the simultaneity paradigm of nursing offers a substantially different view worldview than th...

In the meantime, I plan to study teaching strategies and rationale, and also expand my personal travel experiences. Today as neve...

This left Mee with little opportunity to connect with these patients as human beings and she started "to feel like a machine," whi...

the mountains in California, ride a horse in the Grand Canyon, volunteer in a cancer center, finish painting his house, attend his...

formulation with others, testing new behaviors, integrating this learning into "new, more satisfying behavior, and then using thes...

lawyers, uncaring nurses and pedophile clergy is to cut back on scientific research--a tenuous conclusion at best. Where the art...

drugs and to administer those drugs in a manner that is beneficial to our patients as well as being put into a positions where we ...

As this writer/tutor can only speculate on what the students personal values are, it is suggested that the student include a state...