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volumes regarding the vastness of the human mind. Moreover, it is virtually impossible to have critical thinking present without ...

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...

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

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

the question of what effect an aging nursing work force has on American healthcare in general. First and foremost, the aging of ...

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

and respect diversity within the corporate environment, but not leveraging it in order to gain commercially at the cost of others....

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

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

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...

use this possibility as an excuse to not provide other people, people who are obviously suffering tremendously and would inevitabl...

are getting calls from every part of the country every day. I am hearing from nurses that the working conditions are intolerable a...

p. 144). Each has value, but each exists with a paradox. The more abstract theories are more easily generalized, but more diffic...

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...

and the parents. The service orientation clearly has a focus on child development and early childhood learning, but there is also...

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

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

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

and nursing literature abounds with how such theories influence and guide nursing practice in all of its varied aspects. For exa...

and Ingalls (2003) describe the four metaparadigms allegorically as the "roots" of a living tree, emphasizing that the metaparadig...

Under her wing, Nightingale took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to health. ...

are under our care. By promoting healthy and better communication between us and the patient, we do not need to involve the famil...

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

In five pages the cultural aspects of the nursing profession are considered in a discussion that while Canadian and U.S. nurses mi...

Nursing ethics and autonomy are considered in this discussion of the position statement by the ANA regarding nurses' rights to acc...

This paper addresses the new and growing field of forensic nursing. The author contends that forensic nursing is a necessity in t...

In five pages this paper considers the reflective thinking concept from a nursing perspective with the emphasis on Bert Teekman's ...

Nursing and the training of nurses through reflective practice techniques are examined in 11 pages with the importance of applying...