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quality and safety for the care they can expect to receive from nurses and midwives and other health professionals are the same" (...

individual family member are considered within this context (Friedman, Bowden and Jones 37). In analyzing the various theories th...

supply and the importance of fruit and vegetables in the patients diet. She authored over 200 books, reports and pamphlets on nurs...

this development and left orders for both analgesia and sedation, which helped at first, but became less effective as the hours pa...

nurses are part of this generation and a large majority of nurses are retiring. It has been estimated that 50 percent of the count...

are possess "awareness and intention," and can construct a sense of self-identity and meaning," which includes the ability to choo...

Aesthetic, the need for beauty, order and symmetry (Huitt, 2004). 7. Self-actualization is a plateau not all people reach. At this...

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

makes the point that EBP involves more than simply utilize research evidence; and Penz and Bassendowski emphasize this point by s...

Sometimes the ability to perform foot self-exams for follow-up education or acute illness (Nettles, 2005, p. 44). Additionally, ...

is a term that refers to "a formal way of thinking (i.e. conceptualizing) about a process/system under study" (Conceptual Framewor...

task forces, committees, and organizational projects," while also serving as "resources to other nurses to facilitate advancing sk...

include an understanding of how insulin functions to control glucose levels and the interaction between variables that can affect ...

interests and values considered and respected in the decision-making process" (Fly and Johnstone, 2002). This rationale is undoubt...

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

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

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

This involves intensive, one-on-one teaching, which enables autistic children to learn the intricacies of behaviors or skills via ...

illustrates how she ignored the potential for causing harm when she increased the patients drugs; only after the medication had be...

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

secretary, should leave the ward when there were fewer than three children on the unit and work a second adult unit as well. He wa...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

nursing care over the past decade and how do they support the argument for a continuum of educational practices for nursing profes...

and continues to do so, over the past two decades, as it was first published in 1979 (Falk-Rafael, 2000). In formulating her theor...