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make a real difference. In helping professions, such leadership is desirable. The health care industry today is fraught with probl...

economic positions (McGinn and Murr, 2006). All of this development in the past several years has led to a restatement of Shannon...

is designed to ensure that "Patients have access to needed care" and that healthcare providers are "free to practice medicine with...

imply, a standardized nursing language provides a "uniform nomenclature for the diagnosis, intervention, and evaluation components...

to current medicines, or to increase their ability to be spread into the environment" (Miller-Boyle, 2006, p. 6). Miller-Boyle wri...

now regarded as a crucial and defining component of nursing, as caring defines "nursings unique area of practice and provides dire...

As described by Araich (2001), four nursing strategies effectively summarize how a critical care nurse can use the RAM to aid a ca...

A 7 page client profile that discusses nursing care for an elderly client with degenerative brain disease and offers a research su...

is in charge of all domestic affairs. Younger newly wed couples will often live with one set of parents, even if they are going to...

generations. Though Nightingale promoted a professional demeanor, nursing was not something that most well-bred women would even ...

by the caring physical presence of this nurse in her last remaining hours. However, the way in which this case turned out saw the ...

socially isolating, as outside opinion is discounted. The team adopts a "defensive posture," which is evidenced by "derogatory, de...

caring; 2. every human culture has lay (generic, folk or indigenous) care knowledge and practices and usually some professional ca...

with sudden flashbacks intruding on thoughts (Fagan and Freme, 2004). Other symptoms include: an exaggerated startle reflex, sleep...

arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways and all other products of human work and thought..." (Purnell, 2005, p. 7). It is the eth...

30 months, as this is when between 13 and 28 percent of senior nurses are due to retire (Sibbald, 2003). Currently, close to a thi...

grounds that it is not caring at all but rather reduces the patient to a process component that needs medical attention. While tr...

indwelling foley and compression boot. Her dressing is dry and intact. She was discharged with Percocet 5mg q6. Analysis and Out...

This is significant to nursing because nurses have to learn to insert and remove the catheter from the patient which is sometimes ...

The non-technical interpretation of the results of a study is presented and assessed in the Discussion section. The Introduction ...

in the heart and nervous system, or in some cases, death (WHO, 1996). While health promotion relating to STDs may be a global mis...

that caring is good. Some nurses might object to allowing themselves the luxury because it makes them vulnerable, but in some prof...

How governments accomplish this purpose, of course, varies considerably. In Great Britain, the government via the National Health...

issues along a continuum of health and good health is defined as a "state of complete physical, mental and social well-being" (Ada...

the problem and to eliminate it where possible. Nester (1998) quantifies the extent of the problem relating that an estimated 1,2...

making a critical separation between their medical and social responsibilities within the short time allowed in an office visit. ...

cosmic forces: they comprise the primal and universal psychic energy yet are overlooked * We have to treat our "self" with gentlen...

goes way beyond the paradigm of nursing as simply a "handmaiden" to physicians. The nursing professional is required to know virtu...

In seven pages this paper presents a case scenario featuring a nursing care situation and possible change of employment environmen...

prevention. Today, researchers are not disregarding the genetic component, but see this component as working in conjunction with o...