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showing that they graduated from a nursing education program approved by the Georgia Board of Nursing or from a nursing education ...

1999). Elderly patients who are alert, and not declared incompetent, have the right to refuse treatment, which includes turning or...

all areas of professional nursing. Provisions 1 through 3 address the principal obligations of nursing, which are to the patient/c...

the very act of following the "law" (i.e., supply and demand) of economics now has exacerbated the shortage of nurses who also are...

education for nurses in the US followed the model established by modern nursings founder Florence Nightingale (Fitzpatrick 63). Th...

today will reach retirement age within 15 years (Mee and Robinson, 2003). At the same time, fewer people are entering nursing, as ...

for the precise coding of medication in order to avoid the errors listed above (Woods and Doan-Johnson, 2002). Cohen, Robinson and...

in scientific reasoning that she changed the face of nursing. She made use of statistical analysis in order to demonstrate the way...

the risk of medical errors, such as dispensing the wrong medication or the wrong dose (Nursing overtime, 2004). The study, which w...

their own condition. Judkins and Ingram (2002) designed a self-paced learning module in order to determine whether knowledge relat...

result that nursing pays well enough to support a family now, which is in great contrast to conditions in the distant past. The p...

or chronic illness; however, nurse practitioners also have additional intensive education that involves risk reduction and prevent...

is a very important consideration in nursing. Indeed, some four thousand of so documents were published annually about pain in th...

when he cannot feel a pulse. A new nurse, a first year graduate, Sally enters the room, sees Long and runs out. She encounters Nur...

and religious background and beliefs, as well as how the health/illness continuum works within the framework of their life. "Env...

considered one of a number of high stress jobs, and stress is problematic, causing inefficiencies, high staffing turnover rates an...

the central problem is often the inappropriate use of unlicensed personnel in the workplace setting. Though nurse mangers are ins...

Leaders create the future rather than simply become its victims (Kerfoot, 1998). They are generally thinking several months ahead,...

1999). Lee and his family owned a small business and had no health or medical insurance. The family was urged to begin the process...

is simply to require that their nursing staff make up for understaffing by working mandatory overtime on a more or less permanent ...

proposed method of resolution is to design, develop and evaluate a clinical, evidence-based "diabetic education program to increas...

draw on the fundamental concepts espoused by the metaparadigms. Nevertheless, each branch of nursing theory approaches the subjec...

evaluate nursing care and use research findings in clinical practice" (Barnsteiner, Wyatt and Richardson 165). This survey reveal...

includes strategies that are designed to make the individual feel better, such as "exercise, spirituality, support groups and humo...

declined as "educators, employers and others recognize the need for educational changes in nursing" (Bednash, 2000, p. 2985). Asso...

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

certification program (Policy statement, 1999). On the other hand, the additional education required to become a licensed NP may t...

ethics are a part of the concern. The hospital should not accept a patient load that it cannot handle. Another example of an issue...

adaptation has a process in which individuals respond positively to environmental changes and described three types of stimuli: fo...

within these models. Definition of nursing model Semantic confusion abounds in the relevant literature as to what--precisely--is...