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(Webber). This does sound extremely similar to the way in which the AACN defines the CNL role. In some hospitals, nurse practiti...

"chronic, heavy drinking" (Enoch and Goldman, 2002, p. 192). According to government standards, a woman is at-risk for heavy drink...

assisting registered nurses (RNs) in order to meet legislated requirements (Schaefer 9). This means that while RNs have fewer pati...

and one must wonder - Why? This article suggested the reasons have to do with physician fears of having a malpractice lawsuit file...

McAndrew, 2006). With communication skills there are includes skills of listening as well as tact as essential to facilitate effec...

to a patient over the phone and trying to convey the urgency of that patient coming in for a consultation. The patient resists, so...

were contributing to the "toxic" work environment, which characterized this CSDU, as there was "evidence of a lack of meaningful c...

be immensely helpful in gaining insight into the specific issues involved and subsequent perspective on what course of action to t...

a summation of how addiction occurs. They then address the scope of the problem, which relates the issue under investigation dir...

a nurse to determine which elderly patients are being abused because a sense of shame or a desire to protect the family member who...

Roughly 50 percent of the current working nursing population will retire within the next 15 years (Mee and Robinson, 2003). Adding...

and three stores," which served as "stock rooms, milk stations, clinics," etc. (Lillian Wald). Roughly 3,000 people typically were...

(Cardozo, 2003, p. S35). Within a few hours of being admitted to the ICU, Jacks condition was evaluated using the Waterlow risk as...

(2005), in which samples of patients or patients families were enrolled. In a study in which the sample participants had lost a lo...

"infertility, cardiovascular health, oncology, geriatrics, endocrinology, uro-gynecology, bone health and high-risk pregnancy" (Ke...

Not only are the direct health impacts to the nurse deleterious, impaired nurses cannot meet their responsibility to provide top q...

completing the ranges of study required to attain the licensing level each holds. Aides are not licensed individuals and may or m...

announcing that shes "fine" and then another year or two will pass before the next outburst of psychosis. There is resignation an...

theorist Jean Watson, who developed her Theory of Human Caring in the late 1970s. As a result of Watsons efforts to bring greater...

one else to do them and she saw a need (Krain, 2002). "She recruited another nurse and began working out of a fifth floor apartmen...

left to deny anything connected with the loss, either before or after the fact. Those left behind also need to acknowledge the me...

in a laboratory situation (Licking, 1998; Brownlee and Schrof, 1998). Many of these cells, in fact, have the capability of develo...

inpatient facility (Entry-Level). There are advantages and disadvantages to having three entry levels into nursing. An advantage...

Additionally, at the completion of this study intervention, evaluation of results showed that the project also resulted in improve...

relationship or marriage (Darling, 2005). For example, a homosexual man suffering from HIV-related illness and receiving the inten...

in resistant strains of bacteria (Plonczynski, 2005). This situation suggests that changes in antibiotic prophylactic procedures ...

attitude for science and the availability of educational opportunities, and the need for nurses in the job market, a the heart of ...

caregiver can also ask if they belong to a spiritual, community or religious group (involvement); if the children attend religious...

The theory is "rooted in an agentic perspective," meaning that humans are the agents of change in their lives (Pajares, 2004). Peo...

education or less; little or not prenatal care; unlisted telephone number; low income; history of unemployment; current under or u...