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This essay presents an example of how the student might chose to write a personal essay on the importance that research and EBP wi...

This paper applies a social psychological theory to a current event. The paper demonstrates how the theory can be applied to a ver...

This paper presents an article critique of Duane and Satre (2014), which describes the implementation of a collaborative testing m...

A real nurse leader is the subject of the beginning of this essay. She is the Director of Blood Management and is interested in se...

considering this economic downturn, the numbers of undergraduates pursuing nursing careers began to also decline. In 1991, Canada ...

The ANCI Competency Unit 4 demands that nurses accept accountability and responsibility for their actions in nursing. To do so we...

greater demand on health care services as more of them cross that line from employed to retired. Projections are just that,...

the basic paradigms of nursing professional theory are considered within a social context. For example, health is defined as a "dy...

that the doctrine of informed consent is "hopelessly flawed--or at least misguided," as it is often not possible to truly inform ...

Sharon Bernier, RN, PhD and President of the National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing, points out that Aikens study also...

her, per se, but rather with her expectations of Madeline, which are not age appropriate. The scenario says that Madeline knows be...

and safety" (ANA, 2005). After all, if a nurse does not take steps to preserve her or his own safety, the nurse cannot adequately ...

preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...

There are different studies that have made a partial examination of the developmental models of clinical mentorship and supervisio...

train sufficient numbers of new nurses. Turnover is high among those who remain in the profession, and those so dissatisfied - an...

(1999), research shows that the level of education reached by an RN contributes to a sense of professional autonomy and those nurs...

lethal drug is given with the intent to bring about death, thus ending suffering" (28). Of course, there is a difference between ...

to physicians. Increasingly, "evidence-based guidelines are becoming codes of medical practice" (Healy, 2005; p. 54). Superficia...

over their blood glucose levels; and (3) encouraging continuous improvement in nursing knowledge and patient education. The progr...

a nurses role as a change agent in data base management. Fonville, Killian, and Tranbarger (1998) note that successful nurses of ...

transformative perspective because Newman argues that rather than being diametrically opposed, disease and health are merely facto...

the importance of taking assessment from a number of different, relevant perspectives. For example, mentors who are conscious that...

was perceived as merely the "handmaiden" of medicine, that is, a service that was there to facilitate the practice of the physicia...

rather than requiring patient transfer to ICU. This plan is consistent with the principles of planned change in that it focuses o...

have had ethical reservations about taking a patient off of life support, but she did not add to Lynns burden by interfering with ...

also as a result of the environment in which they are cared for, where smoking is banned. Teaching patients may be seen as a funct...

in African American communities in though it has level off and is falling in other US populations (Dyer, 2003). Adolescents are am...

only one group, no control group. Group exposed to treatment and then measure (Creswell, 2003). Measured participants blood gluco...

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...