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to the wide-ranging aspect of nursing than merely administering medicine; in fact, the myriad components that ultimately comprise ...

legislation that authorizes a Nurse Licensure Compact (National Council of the State Boards of Nursing, Nurse Licensure Compact, 2...

Additionally, the model also "incorporates a life span continuum, where the individual passes from fully dependent at birth, to fu...

Smith, et al. (2002) explain that their purpose "was to investigate the effects of therapeutic massage on selected outcomes relate...

will--in all likelihood--result in a professional negligence suit, rather than criminal charges. Suits against nurses result from ...

NAON recognizes that learning and developing professional is a life-long processes and it helps orthopedic nurses achieve the goal...

well as making it clear that HIV/AIDS is not only an issue which affects other countries but is also very relevant to residents of...

support for the concept that effective leadership style is directly related to nursing job satisfaction (Kleinman, 2004a). These s...

in death is a wise safeguard. In the early part of the twentieth century, rationalizations abounded in medical literature that def...

in nursing educators aged 36 to 45 (Lewallen, et al, 2003). To complicate matters further, recent statistics show that nurses wh...

all aspects of nursing. While the prime relationship in nursing is the one between the nurse and patient, relationships between nu...

are necessary for patient survival" (Kelley, 2005, p. 2). When the blood volume in the body is too low, it activates "compensatory...

the nursing theorists that have come after her (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003). The interactive model focuses on the significant of ...

partners in the healthcare process. Through training and education, nurses learn to make decisions on multiple issues of patient c...

a mentor and/or a preceptor. Mentoring is the "process through which a relationship is established between an experienced indivi...

could be called human biological life; or(2) human personal life that includes biological life but goes beyond it to include other...

it comes to orders, medications, tests, transfers and so on. Another problem for both physicians and nurses is identifying all p...

as well as those studies that have suggested broadening students exposure to families and children with special needs. This discus...

of the patient experience" (Engebretson 20). The background provided by a large, close-knit family means that, from childhood, I h...

much broader in its application. It is this broadness that allows nurses to reach across religious lines and distinctions. In a su...

verifies old knowledge (Wilkerson, 1998). As this suggests, the continuation of scholarly advances in the development of nursing t...

many of the findings of nursing research have little or no relevance to their daily practice. Im and Meleis (1999) cite several re...

information. These guidelines are also based on this researchers finding that self-care promotes the pediatric patients spiritual ...

with their illness decreases and their partners ability to help them with the process is impeded as well. Decreased communication...

ability to empower and grow people" (Gokenbach, 2003, p. 8). Over the past decade, there have been numerous studies that have fou...

the study intervention. Also, as yet, Cook is not clear about the purposes, aims or goals of the study. Literature Review While ...

the work in the formal economy...These circumstances also increase the likelihood that the residents will rely on illegitimate sou...

concepts dominated the field of stress research beginning in the 1950s; however, by the 1970s, there was opposition to Selyes stre...

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

to work efficiently and effectively across cultural boundaries. This concept also encompasses not only the assumption that nurses,...