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great importance placed on issues such as maternity services, which are seen as lower priorities in most developing countries (WHO...

task forces, committees, and organizational projects," while also serving as "resources to other nurses to facilitate advancing sk...

2001). Toms condition remained so precarious that personal care for him had to be done very tentatively. For example, brushing his...

students values : This calls for personal reflection. A question that the student can ask herself/himself is how he or she might h...

the politics found in hospitals and other environments (Reuters, 2008). Supply and demand is always a major driver of salaries in...

has always been about the development of autonomy, equality, social justice and democracy" (Mezirow, 1999). The transformative app...

provide effective communication, the Band Aid song "Do They Know Its Christmas" a song which led to Live Aid was effective; this w...

records and kept him and his family informed about his progress to date and what he could expect along the path to recovery. Nurs...

Statement, 2006). It is also a goal of HHC to "join with other health workers and with communities in a partnership" (Mission Sta...

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

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

But, it also refers to the fact that nurses "shape and transform the environment" as well as offer care within the context of an e...

study also examined the availability of information resources available to the RN respondents (both at work and at home). Their fi...

(Domrose, 2001). However, current trends have developed that have greatly expanded the scope of med-surg nursing, which includes a...

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

Physicians occupy center stage in this modern-day morality play and remain the central focus of most analytical investigations. P...

of anxiety, and relate these to nursing studies, protocols for care and general theory and practice. As a result, this study will...

and nursing literature abounds with how such theories influence and guide nursing practice in all of its varied aspects. For exa...

and Ingalls (2003) describe the four metaparadigms allegorically as the "roots" of a living tree, emphasizing that the metaparadig...

view as well, developing theories of nursing that focus on nursing and its components as systems of varying degrees. Some, such a...

Under her wing, Nightingale took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to health. ...

are under our care. By promoting healthy and better communication between us and the patient, we do not need to involve the famil...

nurses can become political active, as these organizations frequently play an active role in establishing public policy by publica...

that the working environment of the scenario is lacking, as the two nurses who are moonlighting, if this accusation is true, may h...

frees him from this indignity and travesty of life by smothering him with a pillow and then escapes from the asylum (One Flew, 199...

indicated by Carter, census also frequently plays a vital role in this regard for nursing managers. Other factors that I considere...

can only be expected to escalate in the near future. Therefore, issues of affordability, in relation to equitable healthcare servi...

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

college degree is now a requirement for all registered nurses. A nursing major is comprised of a diverse and challenging liberal ...

This hypothetical interview provides students with an example of how an interview with a nursing manager might be described. The m...