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2010). In addition, Moniques behaviors, including drinking to the point where she blacks out and being unable to participate in w...

phenomenological, existential, and qualitative components (Cohen, 1991). These combine to create a theory that addresses the pers...

Systems (HCAHPS) is a patient satisfaction survey and assessment of the level of quality care provided by hospitals and healthcare...

nursing from the time when Florence Nightingale founded modern nursing in the nineteenth century. Since Nightingale, a variety of ...

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

Plans, Student Assessment Binders, Student Learning Profiles, and Student Life skills Portfolios which contain support and documen...

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

client who is the focus of this case study is an 86-year-old woman who has been living at home with her husband. Her medical histo...

and specific therapy" (Newswanger and Warren, 2004, p. 2405). As patients advance through the acute phase of the illness, supporti...

for customized development planning" (Morical, 1999; 43). In applying to his to a practical scenario we can see how it can as true...

of use) of sunscreen at the beach are important considerations. Other factors that should be assessed relative to subjective data...

of a global brand which could be recognized across different cultures and languages and had the plan to create a global company, w...

and typically occurs by the time a person reaches their 70s. In the U.S., roughly 1.5 million fractures are caused by osteoporosis...

While only 6 percent of newborns require advanced life support in 1997, the rise in the number of neonates since that time weighin...

has always been about the development of autonomy, equality, social justice and democracy" (Mezirow, 1999). The transformative app...

and respond to patient authentically as individuals in the here-and-now moment may be the best way to prepare safe and effective c...

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

of family such as the one cited above. In many instances hospitals adhere to the traditional definition, which means that the poli...

explained the process further and made it clear that he would perform the catheterization, the man approved. As this indicates, fr...

a wide range of mental illnesses plague a considerable percentage of the general population, the authors apprehension about the le...

of diabetes care, including blood/glucose monitoring, food intake monitoring, exercise monitoring, and insulin administration. Be...

and ever changing (Trice and Beyer, 1993). Organisational culture embodies what is and is not accepted within an organisation in t...

happening (Simms, Dubowitz and Szilagyi, 2000). Even though each case if different, there are several common reactions when chil...

the strategies that nurses are currently using to address these types of difficult situations. The qualitative approach utilize...

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

performance assessments from a legal perspective, a professional perspective and an ethical perspective. 2. Performance Assessment...

between cases at the time of diagnosis (Newmark and Anhalt, 2007). Type 1 diabetes is typically due to a "lack of insulin producti...

experience" in previous eras (Abramson, 2004, p. 34). This doula program recruits doulas from the community being served. The mode...

This research paper discusses the significance of self-care management to the outcomes of older heart failure patients. This pape...

This paper pertains to comprehending Standardized Practice, APN role in regard to evidence based practice, and the Theory of Hum...