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budget restraints. Nurses leave the profession because they are "distressed by being unable to provide quality nursing care, disgr...

notable historic key developments in nursing research are: 1859 Nightingales Notes on Nursing published 1900 American Nursing Jou...

among all team members (DC Area Health Education Center, 2005). Well-functioning effective teams do not happen by chance. It requ...

an "integration of feelings with knowledge and experience" (Cumbie, 2001, p. 56). Nurses, as caregivers, have to reflect on their ...

article, "Mother-Infant Skin-to-Skin Contact (Kangaroo Care)," kangaroo care offers the parents the only opportunity to engage in ...

for the birth" (MacKinnon, McIntyre and Quance, 2005, p. 29). As this suggests, intrapartum nurses spend the most time with labor...

which initiates a series of events that will either successful contain the infection or prompt it progression toward active diseas...

that are often incurred as a natural part of the aging process (Wang and Wollin, 2004). These changes include "impaired vision and...

with the reconfiguration of practice settings, delivery sites and staff composition. Professional guidelines must be established ...

promote an analytical view of this issue and define the variables that will be assessed: 1. What is the magnitude of the effect o...

cancer being observed (Wynder, Goodman and Hoffman, 1985). They also suggest that schools should place "major emphasis" on program...

currently has 9 major nursing schools, which include the University of Pennsylvania (one of the most renowned facilities in the Un...

including critical attributes, communication processes, and the overall benefits of school-based support groups in addressing the ...

shock, (b) a match with a rule or with previous decision situations, and (c) a script-driven decision" (Lee, et al., 1996; p. 5), ...

the beginning of her career in the 1950s, Peplau indicated that she believed that the significance between the nurse and the patie...

Developing Clinical Guidelines by Allen et al (1997) set out to determine the disparities that exist within the resolution process...

in which care is provided for aging and dying adults in general. In addition, the researchers recognize that preparation for dyin...

to reason, therefore, that if nurses are experiencing higher rates of stress, the inevitable consequences of such can only lead to...

however, Jones requested an ethics consult on the case due to the fact that Johns psychosocial evaluation had caused Jones to have...

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

the effect of music on preoperative anxiety and postoperative pain with a participant group that listened to "peaceful pan flute m...

the fever? Was it related to an infection in the surgical wound? Was the patient developing atelectasis and pneumonia? Or, was the...

more on intuition and to "a hidden knowledge that is not so open to cognitive description" (Bradshaw, 1995, p. 83). In other words...

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

results are reliable and representative (Curwin and Slater, 1996). The first is the profiling of the samples to show that they are...

arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways and all other products of human work and thought..." (Purnell, 2005, p. 7). It is the eth...

cardiac monitor, a seizure, drug reaction or other sign of a critical condition...(They) are expected to fill out reports" that we...

system," since the institution of mandated nursing ratios, and also that data shows California hospitals have not only been able t...

the prevalence of UI was high in this region of the country and particularly high among African Americans in two of the states, wh...

2004). As errors are inevitable, in order to significantly reduce the rate at which they occur, it is imperative that mistakes sho...