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Decision-making, critical thinking and advocacy are all important in the modern hospital experience. This paper examines a patient...

agent, such as an adult child or another proxy. In recent years, the DNR has been included in the Physicians Orders for Life Susta...

Alcohol poses a direct risk as a result of the physical impact it has on the body. The use of alcohol is often seen as a social ...

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

the medical profession as a whole. Nurses themselves face a number of concerns in the performance of their jobs in organ transpla...

says that families have been sorely neglected as a great deal of nursing practice continues to focus on individuals (Denham, 2003)...

homes. Rather, it is a high-quality facility dedicated to providing the best of care to its residents. Staff members are employe...

what I please, Resolve me of all ambiguities, Perform what desperate enterprise I will?" (Marlowe). He consciously and actively ch...

nurse seeks to preserve any culture-specific aspect of the patients life everywhere possible. When some culturally-linked aspect ...

authors state that research "and theory are key underpinnings that guide safe, effective, and comprehensive" (p. 35) practice. As...

the question of what effect an aging nursing work force has on American healthcare in general. First and foremost, the aging of ...

quality and care" of health services that offered to rural areas throughout the US (Clinton, 2007). In addition to providing fun...

30 months, as this is when between 13 and 28 percent of senior nurses are due to retire (Sibbald, 2003). Currently, close to a thi...

generations. Though Nightingale promoted a professional demeanor, nursing was not something that most well-bred women would even ...

socially isolating, as outside opinion is discounted. The team adopts a "defensive posture," which is evidenced by "derogatory, de...

pilot study was performed first, in which the research tested the methodology. This also involved developing an interview schedule...

imply, a standardized nursing language provides a "uniform nomenclature for the diagnosis, intervention, and evaluation components...

graduate nursing hires (Truman, 2004, p. 45). The novice nurses participate in six hours of classroom instruction, plus thirty hou...

endeavor. Nursing in any context requires a detailed knowledge of individual patients. Specifically, a forensic nurse will have a...

to protect their anonymity; however, the actions and attitudes that Glittenberg describes reflects the cultural orientation of the...

chosen. The Metropolitan Museum of Art indicates two events that would be appropriate for a humanities-oriented fieldtrip geared...

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 ...

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

it is also something that people must essentially be trained for, go to school for, and seek out as a career, at least for much of...

is considered to have written the first nursing textbook, Notes on Nursing (OConnor, Robertson and Davidson). As this suggests, ...

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

in detail the theories of Betty Neuman, Madeleine Leininger and Callista Roy and, also, describe direct applications of each theor...

developing countries, while it alleviating the nursing shortage in the industrialized countries to a certain degree, is creating a...

all aspects of professional nursing and a nurses obligation to patients to provide ethical and professional quality care. The firs...