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and Ingalls (2003) describe the four metaparadigms allegorically as the "roots" of a living tree, emphasizing that the metaparadig...
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...
today will reach retirement age within 15 years (Mee and Robinson, 2003). At the same time, fewer people are entering nursing, as ...
The concept of health also has undergone change over the years. It formerly referred to absence of disease, but now it generally ...
and Robinson, 2003). Another element complicating the problem is the fact that in the early 1990s, many hospitals restructured a...
age. Therefore, the patient population is increasing. This factor is also influenced by the fact that that the huge lump in the Am...
are RNs who are "prepared, through advanced education and clinical training, to provide preventive and acute health-care services"...
and nurses need to be and has generated capacity and energy within that body of nursing to reach that vision" (Ralko 6). A princip...
self-knowledge (Simpson, 2004). While anecdotal evidence is not regarded as conclusive, the experience of individual nurses in reg...
promotion can address a variety of nursing clients in a variety of circumstances. For example, Richardson (2002) acknowledges that...
chosen. The Metropolitan Museum of Art indicates two events that would be appropriate for a humanities-oriented fieldtrip geared...
numbers of young students came to believe that perhaps nursing would provide an outlet for caring natures as well as support a fam...
images represent some aspect of nursing? Examination of this question shows that two of these images are particularly helpful in d...
embarrassment in front of others, withheld pay increases, and termination" (Marriner-Tomey, 2004, p. 118). While conferring reward...
defining the leadership characteristics that would be the focus of this educational effort (Pintar, Capuano and Rosser, 2007). As ...
has always been about the development of autonomy, equality, social justice and democracy" (Mezirow, 1999). The transformative app...
the politics found in hospitals and other environments (Reuters, 2008). Supply and demand is always a major driver of salaries in...
and long-term care facilities (CNRA). The CNRA also outlined the distinct functions of a nurse in the care of individuals, recog...
expected only to continue for several years to come. Then, growth will begin to decline in response to fewer numbers of people re...
use this possibility as an excuse to not provide other people, people who are obviously suffering tremendously and would inevitabl...
eventually revert to many of the methods formerly used in patient care. She makes clear distinction between research in nursing t...
are getting calls from every part of the country every day. I am hearing from nurses that the working conditions are intolerable a...
p. 144). Each has value, but each exists with a paradox. The more abstract theories are more easily generalized, but more diffic...
(Snyder and Lindquist, 2001). Under this philosophy the social factors and even the spiritual factors of an individuals existen...
that have affected my choice of working as a nurse. Of course many people have these factors in common within their personal valu...
during which time they reviewed data regarding the patient and made adjustments to the clinical care program. The advanced practic...
to changes which in turn can result in higher costs and reduced perceived quality of care. Primary nursing is not a new con...
(p. 835) among Medicaid residents of Massachusetts nursing homes between 1991 and 1994. This mixed method (i.e., quantitative as ...
well. This study also appears to be sound scientifically. Its primary means of data analysis is statistical; the methods b...