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which are factors that are likely to have a beneficial affect on the chronic nursing shortage that is currently affecting the heal...

frees him from this indignity and travesty of life by smothering him with a pillow and then escapes from the asylum (One Flew, 199...

the associates course of study to address the very things that can make the greatest difference in patient outcomes and satisfacti...

to identify and to relate in terms of actual patient care. Ida Jean Orlando created a conceptual view of the nursing process whic...

In four pages a hypothetical situation is considered in which a conflict commences in an ICU between a healthcare assistant and a ...

for all persons in Medicaid certified facilities within the US. This instrument entails over 350 different data elements ranging f...

The concept of health also has undergone change over the years. It formerly referred to absence of disease, but now it generally ...

and Robinson, 2003). Another element complicating the problem is the fact that in the early 1990s, many hospitals restructured a...

are under our care. By promoting healthy and better communication between us and the patient, we do not need to involve the famil...

and nursing literature abounds with how such theories influence and guide nursing practice in all of its varied aspects. For exa...

and Ingalls (2003) describe the four metaparadigms allegorically as the "roots" of a living tree, emphasizing that the metaparadig...

has been with us for several years, and it is widely publicized. The result is that the nursing shortage not only affects the qua...

theoretical framework for promoting professional development through the use of quality circles. This management theory involves a...

efficiency is paramount. The problem is important for nursing study because (1) it is so pervasive, and (2) returning to ba...

to changes which in turn can result in higher costs and reduced perceived quality of care. Primary nursing is not a new con...

The ever-changing nature of Americas health care system has introduced a chaos in a population that for more than a century has be...

a method which pursues both action and understanding at the same time, and points out that it is particularly relevant in situatio...

(Snyder and Lindquist, 2001). Under this philosophy the social factors and even the spiritual factors of an individuals existen...

that have affected my choice of working as a nurse. Of course many people have these factors in common within their personal valu...

determine their relationships with others, as well as pull people of similar interests and often similar personalities together an...

eventually revert to many of the methods formerly used in patient care. She makes clear distinction between research in nursing t...

are getting calls from every part of the country every day. I am hearing from nurses that the working conditions are intolerable a...

base on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, officially bringing the United States into World War II. At the time of the surprise attack, howev...

p. 144). Each has value, but each exists with a paradox. The more abstract theories are more easily generalized, but more diffic...

use this possibility as an excuse to not provide other people, people who are obviously suffering tremendously and would inevitabl...

is diagnosed with a learning disability, this group fits into this diagnosis. Defining giftedness is more complex because the cate...

Nightingale as power-crazed and iron-willed. Salvage (2001) tends to believe that these criticisms of Nightingale reflect lingerin...

we had a helper who came in during the day and a nurse at night. Both of them were kind, experienced and very caring, and I could ...

the nurse is uncertain of which tasks are appropriate to delegation, as well as the skill level of UAPs, their reluctance becomes ...

This nurse that leaving the acute care facility had to do with "When youre constantly short-staffed and feel your managers arent s...