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(Political Power, 2002). The profession of nursing is no different from any other in this regard (Political Power, 2002). Qualit...

was well educated (Le Vasseur, 1998), from a family of wealth and yet held an unusual compassion for those less fortunate. She wa...

that "People choose nursing for love, not money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and...

for the infant for the first six months" (Moore et al., 1998; p. 36). Bearing this in mind we address those women who are perhaps ...

other people. Whereas simulation is rehearsed, however, role playing is not. It requests that the learners take on the character...

to the bill as did many nursing executives, arguing that there was sufficient legislation already on the books that dealt with sta...

does know is what is involved in the job, and many of the permutations that one simple standard can take. There is protocol, then...

several problems with recent immigrants, however. These include language barriers, not having completed a GED, limited healthcare...

a lingering distrust of the qualitative approach, one that often has not been done well and has resulted in works that cannot be c...

is on a morphine drip to which there is attached only one instruction: decrease the drip when respirations reach four per minute....

as the "Angel of Mercy" during the late 19th century; the "Gal Friday" during the 1920s and the "Heroine" during World War II (Bro...

a deleterious impact to patient welfare. With appropriate conflict resolution skills, however, most conflict can be either avoide...

out the parameters of the problem and review previous the results of research in this area. She discusses how patients older than ...

in education and work experience. 2. Boyfriends work sporadically. 3. Neither appears to consider the possibility of breaking the ...

nurse (Cosgrove, 1996). Even at this level, however, the nursing field is one which demands a continued commitment to education. ...

of stem cell research far outweigh the negativities. Because of these benefits stem cell research can be ethically defended utili...

nursing practice and nurses are formally authorized from the society to touch their clients in the course of nursing activities. ...

being the most complete. Education in triage generally has not been complete at all, however (Crafter, Little and Ritchie, 2000)....

decisions. It is through our status as health care professionals that such a role is not only valued but critical. Nursing...

process variation, foster awareness of the impact of different clinical decisions, and encourage reduction in undesirable practice...

to current medicines, or to increase their ability to be spread into the environment" (Miller-Boyle, 2006, p. 6). Miller-Boyle wri...

now regarded as a crucial and defining component of nursing, as caring defines "nursings unique area of practice and provides dire...

any incident that requires an increased level of response beyond the routine operating procedures" (NASN, 2006). Natural disasters...

and the spirit says, "Ahhh, everything feels much better now" (Wooten, 2005, p. 510). Another factor in her relationships with c...

period of restructuring in many industries, including healthcare. Managed care organizations and changes in reimbursement rates f...

is designed to ensure that "Patients have access to needed care" and that healthcare providers are "free to practice medicine with...

and how discharge instructions should cover these contingencies. "Health" has historically been used to describe the "absence of d...

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

weaker, less developed than the other. This delayed his walking, and, even after he walked successfully at age 3, it took several ...

factor in childhood obesity is the fact that television viewing tends to be accompanied by the consumption of high-calorie, high s...