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age. Therefore, the patient population is increasing. This factor is also influenced by the fact that that the huge lump in the Am...

are RNs who are "prepared, through advanced education and clinical training, to provide preventive and acute health-care services"...

2001). Toms condition remained so precarious that personal care for him had to be done very tentatively. For example, brushing his...

less people living in rural communities and the "more remote geographical regions" of Australia than in urban locales (Bushy 104)....

the politics found in hospitals and other environments (Reuters, 2008). Supply and demand is always a major driver of salaries in...

developing countries, while it alleviating the nursing shortage in the industrialized countries to a certain degree, is creating a...

can only be expected to escalate in the near future. Therefore, issues of affordability, in relation to equitable healthcare servi...

numbers of young students came to believe that perhaps nursing would provide an outlet for caring natures as well as support a fam...

defining the leadership characteristics that would be the focus of this educational effort (Pintar, Capuano and Rosser, 2007). As ...

Peer Group Affiliation And Differences According To Residential Status, Subsistence Patterns, And Use Of Services" provide empiric...

has always been about the development of autonomy, equality, social justice and democracy" (Mezirow, 1999). The transformative app...

be vulnerable to abuse or neglect for a variety of reasons and in a variety of situations, which range from home care to care in r...

Empirical research ahs consistently reported that when communication between the two professions is good, which includes doctors ...

students values : This calls for personal reflection. A question that the student can ask herself/himself is how he or she might h...

This nurse that leaving the acute care facility had to do with "When youre constantly short-staffed and feel your managers arent s...

situation. As a provider of care, it is the role of the community health nurse to address the needs of Centerville adolescents i...

contemporary forms of prejudice" (Dovidio et al, 1999, pp. 101-105). Intergroup contact as a method of reducing prejudice ...

But, it also refers to the fact that nurses "shape and transform the environment" as well as offer care within the context of an e...

study also examined the availability of information resources available to the RN respondents (both at work and at home). Their fi...

(Domrose, 2001). However, current trends have developed that have greatly expanded the scope of med-surg nursing, which includes a...

records and kept him and his family informed about his progress to date and what he could expect along the path to recovery. Nurs...

Statement, 2006). It is also a goal of HHC to "join with other health workers and with communities in a partnership" (Mission Sta...

and nurses need to be and has generated capacity and energy within that body of nursing to reach that vision" (Ralko 6). A princip...

those under stress or who are unhappy with their lives. For this reason there has been a higher use in poorer social classes where...

and Robinson, 2003). Another element complicating the problem is the fact that in the early 1990s, many hospitals restructured a...

nurses which makes job searching easier. Registered nurses are in great demand and it is thought that there will be a significa...

(p. 835) among Medicaid residents of Massachusetts nursing homes between 1991 and 1994. This mixed method (i.e., quantitative as ...

well. This study also appears to be sound scientifically. Its primary means of data analysis is statistical; the methods b...

to changes which in turn can result in higher costs and reduced perceived quality of care. Primary nursing is not a new con...

homes. Rather, it is a high-quality facility dedicated to providing the best of care to its residents. Staff members are employe...