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the elderly. The Nurse Practitioner announced in its July 2000 issue that reports of the AMAs petition had been received as...

caused by the illnesses the may then have a negative physiological backlash on the patient. For other condition it may be the ro...

experience, particularly that immigrant experience as it occurs within the modern medical environment, revolves around cultural un...

objective in conducting their study was to "describe the experience of men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer and their wives,...

is wheelchair bound, but nevertheless cooks for herself and shops for herself in a nearby grocery store, using her motorized wheel...

MEDMARX is thought to be the most comprehensive reporting of medication error information in the nation (Morantz & Torrey, 2003). ...

At the heart of nursing is the nurse-patient relationship, which provides the foundation for nursing care (Patusky, 2003). This r...

achieved that the critical care nurse may address the bio-psycho-social implications of the event (Alfafara and Hedges, 1996). Fur...

reveal a steady growth in the number of nurses joining unions due to discontent" (Blankenheim 2001, p. 13). They are doing so to l...

and environment integral relationships" (Carey, 2003). One way in which to determine the usefulness of the theory and how p...

large perspective world view. Summing up, three differences between paradigms and models are that paradigms take a broader view of...

Acquiescing to the constraints imposed by organizational and professional structure does not mean that the nurse has no alternativ...

leadership of the nursing department with another individual at the VP level. Maras has full leadership of the department o...

Although she lived, she suffered extensive brain damage, leaving her in what is described as a "persistent vegetative state" (Jero...

from disease to non-disease to health. She argues that "This synthesized view incorporates disease as meaningful aspect of health...

model of nursing is predicated upon the call for an interdisciplinary approach in the creation and establishment of appropriate an...

In four pages a hypothetical situation is considered in which a conflict commences in an ICU between a healthcare assistant and a ...

that nurse is guilty of doing something unethical. Nurses must impose a high standard of care in the office, hospital or home sett...

to three days more than 20 years ago. We ruefully joke that some managed care plans only allow new mothers to be hospitalized on ...

efforts and prevention methods (Erickson, 1997). Ericksons (1997) study considered the impacts of psychology and specific attit...

more likely to give birth prematurely, have children with low-birthweights, and experience pregnancy problems like eclampsia. Fur...

development of nurse-operated continence centers, which provide conservative management for UI (Bernier, 2002). Continence nurses...

Kong, as Leung (2003) points out, registered marriage was welcomed by women as an integral part of their acquiring equal rights....

until they become powerless in terms of their own personal care that nursing care should take over. There are essentially 3 typ...

and the patient are often unproductive (Roberson and Kelly, 1996; Hanna, 1997). Understanding the basis for this cultural percept...

(p. 1617). This suggests that the subject for this study is so under-researched that there are no previous studies to cite, which ...

She has promoted her theory of human caring throughout the world from various positions including lecturer at several universities...

exist for generations. Though Nightingale promoted a professional demeanor, nursing was not something that most well-bred women w...

using this paper properly! I. INTRODUCTION Janet (an RN) and Carol (her manager) had been working together in the same Can...

of anxiety due to the diagnosis. She is single but hoped to one day get married and have children. The sudden onset of symptoms an...