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(Allmark, 2003, p. 4). Poststructuralism: This perspective takes a deconstructive view of structuralism and "sees inquiry as ine...

12-21, live relatively sedentary lives, as they are not active enough to successfully maintain good health (Covelli, 2007). The in...

in this case for a variety of reasons (Chaguturu and Vallabhaneni, 2005). First of all, despite any financial incentives, it has b...

expectancy is increasing and more people are surviving serious illness and living longer with chronic illness. At the same time, t...

background of hospital RNs is a significant factor in providing quality nursing care, as this study showed that the level of educa...

patient care (Hassmiller and Cozine, 2006). Some strategies proposed by RWJF for helping to decrease the tremendous workload on nu...

insurance as a working benefit, but that is not always a workable solution when employees cannot afford to miss a day a work in or...

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

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

In the meantime, I plan to study teaching strategies and rationale, and also expand my personal travel experiences. Today as neve...

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

(2003) gives the example of an nurse assigned to a busy intensive care unit (ICU) began experiencing clear signs of traumatic stre...

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...

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

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

In four pages this research paper argues that nursing's image needs to be changed and focuses on accomplishing this through the in...

how the quality of this relationship affects the therapeutic success of nursing interventions. Major concepts (adaptation) : Lite...

As this writer/tutor can only speculate on what the students personal values are, it is suggested that the student include a state...

for caring for the wounded (Holder, 2003). For the first time in American history, women were asked to leave their homes and act...

effectiveness has been studied extensively, and that studies consistently conclude that NP-based care is comparable to that origin...

to take insulin only when his blood glucose level was above the value established by his physician. The nurse laid out all ...

viewpoints that articulate their own unvoiced feelings toward their profession. For example, in a discussion in an online nursin...

This left Mee with little opportunity to connect with these patients as human beings and she started "to feel like a machine," whi...

the medical profession as a whole. Nurses themselves face a number of concerns in the performance of their jobs in organ transpla...

The link between nurse caring and patient satisfaction has been reported numerous times. For instance, the AORN journal reported a...

(Fawcett, 1995). Application of either model rests in large part on the appropriateness and completeness of nurse documentation (...

Conroy and Nottoli (1999) report the case of Henry, an irascible octogenarian who easily was the most difficult patient in the ski...

body. Though "the VG site has long been established as an optimal site, not all nurses use it" (Scott and Marfell-Jones, 2004; p....

must have at least some knowledge of the topic of discussion beforehand, or the discussion can disintegrate into an exercise in "p...