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appropriate. Also, when changing bed linens it is imperative that the soiled bed linens get placed in a bag and not into the clea...

Nightingale as power-crazed and iron-willed. Salvage (2001) tends to believe that these criticisms of Nightingale reflect lingerin...

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...

as a solution to the problem of developing reflective skills, Ferrario defines reflective thinking as: a) analyzing, synthesizing,...

In four pages this research paper examines nursing's metaparadigm in a consideration of concepts including nursing, health, enviro...

we had a helper who came in during the day and a nurse at night. Both of them were kind, experienced and very caring, and I could ...

Kanters position that the situational aspects of a working environment have the ability to influence worker attitudes and behavior...

theology, to Scandinavian mythology, Hindu theology, African mythology, and Navajo healing rituals. The reader then explores mank...

for vendors, still another for customers - and eliminating layered access serves to simplify the structure of the larger informati...

to read under the covers while at home or while in a classroom with the lights darkened just for the occasion. "Flashlight Friday...

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

today will reach retirement age within 15 years (Mee and Robinson, 2003). At the same time, fewer people are entering nursing, as ...

is a very important consideration in nursing. Indeed, some four thousand of so documents were published annually about pain in th...

or chronic illness; however, nurse practitioners also have additional intensive education that involves risk reduction and prevent...

and retention" (Andersen, 2002, p. 603). This then should be the first priority: to design a study that will accrue and retain ...

Developing New Nurse Leaders also considers the issue of shifts in leadership and governance, with a focus on the role of nurses a...

nurse anesthetist. For one week, I watched the interactions between the nurse anesthetist and other professionals, as well as the...

the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...

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

The concept of health also has undergone change over the years. It formerly referred to absence of disease, but now it generally ...

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

The methodology utilized in the study by OBrien is quantitative and includes an assessment of a review of literature, the developm...

images represent some aspect of nursing? Examination of this question shows that two of these images are particularly helpful in d...

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

leader. Finally, my educational objectives include demonstrating an awareness of and a skill for nursing research, which requires...

the ten greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century, when Farnsworth died he held 300 U.S. and foreign patents. This articl...

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

parents of children with cancer regarding the needs of siblings and on the support that was offered by hospital staff. The results...

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

all aspects of professional nursing and a nurses obligation to patients to provide ethical and professional quality care. The firs...