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military personnel and other non-combatants. While McConnell was seeing her charges safely to Japan, General Douglas MacArthur was...

a little less than a third of them were under the age of 40 (Meadows, 2002, p. 46). This offered conclusive proof that number of ...

and statistics. This approach works well for in physics and math, but less well when applied to people. Moloney (2002) offers thre...

with "depression, sleep disturbance, fatigue, and decreased overall physical and mental functioning" (Hearn, 2001). Problem Stat...

and their insurers by operating under two distinct fee schedules. Medicare requires that care providers fees be "normal and custo...

by any number of characteristics used for grouping individuals. These characteristics can include geography, relationships, cultu...

many contemporary societies still reflect incredible amounts of poverty, disease and homelessness in spite of the fact that their ...

both for nurses and their patients, meaning that nurses experience and deal with stress in a variety of directions and settings. ...

on education and prevention, and on how individual and social systems work together in the "society" of the health care industry. ...

new heart patient may need to learn to radically alter its diet, or the family of a new cancer patient may have to learn to cope w...

point that relatively few paid attention to it at all. In many respects, the same has occurred in the discussion of anythin...

The funding agency chosen for this program is the Childrens Aid Society, a nonprofit organization that has been dedicated to impro...

routine activities necessary to their own care. The purpose is that with a nurses direction, encouragement and initial supervisio...

within the academic curriculum (Thomson, 2003). Therefore, this one are of research demonstrates how nursing research impacts many...

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

Bell (2000) reports that when an Australian hospital instituted shared governance, nurse managers responded "by developing a teamw...

cross to bear and they would be shamed to bring it to someone else. The healthcare worker must not attempt to alter the patients r...

(called IgE) (ONeill, 1990). This then sticks to other cells such as the mast cells or the basophils, this is a chain reaction as ...

risk factor, but is of less consequence among those diabetics who pay close attention to their blood sugar levels, test often and ...

objective in conducting their study was to "describe the experience of men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer and their wives,...

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

already has been diagnosed as having some form of heart disease. In that sense, primary prevention is not possible. The goals of...

MEDMARX is thought to be the most comprehensive reporting of medication error information in the nation (Morantz & Torrey, 2003). ...

are often called upon to provide comfort where there seems to be none, patience in the face of adversity, and grace under fire. Th...

should all be considered (OConnor and Walker, 2003). Traditionally, societys influence on educational planning has meant that the...

At the heart of nursing is the nurse-patient relationship, which provides the foundation for nursing care (Patusky, 2003). This r...

of psychology so the attraction to social factors is often minimized. Another reason why Freud was influential in terms of soci...

reveal a steady growth in the number of nurses joining unions due to discontent" (Blankenheim 2001, p. 13). They are doing so to l...

percent); * Management by walking around (15 percent); * Coaching/empowerment (11 percent); * Team (7 percent); * Transformational...

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