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Prospective Payment System (PPS), reimbursement rates going to both hospitals and physicians have declined significantly. In react...

in the overall quality of care delivered by community health nurses (CHNs) is providing end-of-life care that is holistic and cong...

of literature pertaining to type 2 diabetes mellitus, begins by describing, summarizing and analyzing the study conducted by Barko...

nurses. These were all key people in leading the change (Stetler et al., 2009). These same people were not identified in the begin...

The SCDNT regards the meta-paradigm of "Nursing" as an art, that is, a "helping service," but also as a technology ("Dorothea," 20...

County Community College (DCCC) located near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, serves the educational needs of 28,000 students annually ...

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

Intervention using Mishels theory facilitates the process of patients accepting the inevitability of uncertainty as a factor in th...

Both of these individuals have limited education. Ms. A. graduated from high school but Mr. B. did not, and dropped out at the en...

to do with how a person feels about him- or herself. Those with a high sense of self-efficacy believe that they can master even di...

that hospital nurse staffing levels are inadequate to provide safe and effective care" (DPE Research Department, 2003). Physicians...

once again examines how nurses can be empowered, and learn those values in college. Finally, Ann Gallagher discusses dignity with ...

were contributing to the "toxic" work environment, which characterized this CSDU, as there was "evidence of a lack of meaningful c...

to the medications needed to ensure their health. Beginning in 2004, Medicare began to offer aid, $600 a year, for covering the co...

official entity until 1993. Today it addresses an array of nursing issues. The goals of the program are: * "Promoting quality in...

Additionally, at the completion of this study intervention, evaluation of results showed that the project also resulted in improve...

drivers" than do states that do not require test automatic testing (Murden and Unroe, 2005, p. 22). Most states do set standards f...

increase; third-party payers strive to keep payments as low as possible; individuals seek to enhance performance or gain the great...

risk. For example, Mahlmeister (1996) relates a pediatric situation in which a night nurse in a small hospital was expected to wor...

not only relates to the societal restrictions with which women had to contend in regards to their expected societal roles, but it ...

Baumann, et al, in 1995, which was purely qualitative. The point is that through qualitative research, data was provided that can ...

sorrow; (b) relief from distress; (c) a person or thing that comforts; (d) a state of ease and quiet enjoyment, free from worry; (...

the following: In my practice setting, a major barrier against using EBP is that it takes an inordinate amount of time. This is...

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

practice. Research reveals best practices and these will improve nursing practice. For example, nurses knew that people coming out...

to bridge the gap between nursing research and nursing practice, two formal program efforts were undertaken: the Western Interstat...

The vision is to be a leader in providing high quality health care services. Their values include a customer-focus and to exceed t...

(2005), in which samples of patients or patients families were enrolled. In a study in which the sample participants had lost a lo...

"infertility, cardiovascular health, oncology, geriatrics, endocrinology, uro-gynecology, bone health and high-risk pregnancy" (Ke...

the research, which includes finding a definitive measure for the health status of the homeless. This is a reasoned, extensive rev...