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to a patient over the phone and trying to convey the urgency of that patient coming in for a consultation. The patient resists, so...

(2005), in which samples of patients or patients families were enrolled. In a study in which the sample participants had lost a lo...

nurse to patient ratio in California. In 1992 and 1993 the California Nurses Association has sponsored the Democratic Senator Jack...

and fatigue, abdominal pain, vomiting, constipation and learning difficulties" ("Lead"). These physiological effects are caused by...

is three times the average for all other age groups (AOA, 2010). Average doctor visits in a year were 6.5 for ages 65 to 74 and 7....

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

It is well known that there is a significant shortage of registered nurses that will continue to grow. There is a difference of op...

"become a universal law" (Kant, 1993, p. 30). In other words, Kants main criteria for action is that the individual should conside...

expectancy is increasing and more people are surviving serious illness and living longer with chronic illness. At the same time, t...

endeavor. Nursing in any context requires a detailed knowledge of individual patients. Specifically, a forensic nurse will have a...

graduate nursing hires (Truman, 2004, p. 45). The novice nurses participate in six hours of classroom instruction, plus thirty hou...

quality and care" of health services that offered to rural areas throughout the US (Clinton, 2007). In addition to providing fun...

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

pilot study was performed first, in which the research tested the methodology. This also involved developing an interview schedule...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

chosen. The Metropolitan Museum of Art indicates two events that would be appropriate for a humanities-oriented fieldtrip geared...