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to individuals connected by a blood tie. However, to be a "family," members must "live in close contact, care for one another, an...

recognized categories for APNs within this state (TBoN, 2006). The scope of practice for Tennessee APNs includes the legal abili...

noted that cases of a rare lung infection, pneumocystis carinni pneumonia, had occurred in Los Angeles and also that three young m...

(Green, 2004a). A travel nurse, on the other hand, is typically contracted to work a 13-week period, and this usually includes an ...

from the mountain. Since that time FOCS have taken a variety of initiatives to try and inform the public as to the environmental i...

History Tobacco has become fully impregnated in world society. Tobacco, of course, originated in...

reality of the profession. It needs a makeover much as it had in the 19th century in Brittan when nursing reformers struggled to h...

few weeks later, the company sold its first automobile, to a doctor in Detroit (Davis). As noted above, the company produced 1,700...

of such actions" (Dictionary.com, 2010). It is expected that professionals should act with a high level of ethical integrity, refl...

paternalistic approach that has been favored by physicians. Watsons theory stresses nurses should "honor anothers becoming, autono...

for my patients. Personal philosophy of nursing: Tourville and Ingalls (2003) offer a fascinating and very apt analogy to descri...

care home agencies also offer data on each service that is provided by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and acco...

nursing skill levels and patient mix" (Minimum staff levels, 2004, p. 33). However, the researchers found that a "greater total nu...

work essentially takes the reader through many eras as it relates to what was going on in the nation (lynchings etc.) and in polit...

further harm; instead of deferring to this individuals personhood, she wholly disregarded what his physician considered to be the ...

so (Forsloff). However, the state considers itself to have a vested interest in protected those who cannot protect themselves, suc...

the American healthcare system, the debate concerning whether or not states should implement mandated nurse-to-patient ratios rema...

from those of education- focused institutions, when the institution in question is a nursing school, there are similarities, as we...

management dilemma" and is written by Orly Toren and Nurith Wagner. The authors discuss different ethical dilemmas nurse face dail...

literature and also "analysis of ICD-9-CM codes," which were reviewed by a "clinician panel," offering specific IQs that address i...

the Department of Justices Police Brutality Study 1985-1990; Uniform Crime Reports during the same period and the 1990 U.S. Census...

support of a nurse that can keep these patients inspired to continue the positive health behaviors that ensure their continued goo...

was a patient protection initiative which incorporated a requirement for there to be set nasty patient ratios in healthcare system...

nurse to patient ratio in California. In 1992 and 1993 the California Nurses Association has sponsored the Democratic Senator Jack...

In a paper of six pages, the author writes about research on the problem of workplace violence against nurses. The studies used i...

and how this equipment should differ for this population: Bariatric patients are typically defined as those who are extremely obe...

of the hospital nursing staff could be nurses with a bachelors degree or higher and that this can have an impact on patient outcom...

that make use of color, but even these efforts have not typically met with good response by patients or hospital administrators (S...

the patient prior to his death. The nurse clearly felt the need to encourage the family to stay and spend as much time as possibl...

authors have explored the importance of the holistic approach in positively impacting patient outcome. As early as the 1970s rese...