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trying times of their lives. Nurses have the capacity to improve lives. Nothing could be more meaningful or provide a greater sens...

These authors conducted a large study of 3,830 individuals consisting of 17.8 percent nurses, 21.8 percent physicians, 29.6 percen...

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

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

learned long ago the value of yet another Deming (1986) exhortation, that of continuous improvement. By definition, the concept i...

on an evidenced based evidence based practice and the development of increased individual accountability in the area of clinical g...

the disease as well as around the prevention of the spread of the causative organism to other individuals that come into contact w...

classifies the stroke patients needs in four domains: 1) medical/surgical issues; 2) mental status/emotion/coping behaviors; 3) ph...

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

activities" (Orems Self-Care Model Concepts) that patients need to undertake to meet their own health care needs on a routine basi...

departments (Courson, 2004). It isnt that nurses have not been serving in these roles, they have but today, nurses receive speci...

balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...

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

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

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. ...

Beginning in the early 1990s, managed care targeted nursing as an expenditure where hospitals could cut costs. Managed care consul...

the needs of the dying and her work indicates that there are times when the most meaningful communication that a nurse can offer i...

and in 2001 unofficially took over daily operations of Johnson & Johnson as he was being trained to succeed Ralph Larsen upon his ...

regards to lung function. If patients cannot breath on their own, RTs are trained on how to intubate patients and connect them to ...

the same sort of indirect methods that they have advocated will aid the economy. For example, the Republicans are pursuing putting...

the medical team with which these patients have surrounded themselves. It is the patients responsibility to cooperate and do ever...

is wheelchair bound, but nevertheless cooks for herself and shops for herself in a nearby grocery store, using her motorized wheel...

achieved that the critical care nurse may address the bio-psycho-social implications of the event (Alfafara and Hedges, 1996). Fur...

undergoes surgery for a hip arthroplasty 24 hours after admission. Twenty-four hours after surgery the nurses note that Mrs. Gale...

experience, particularly that immigrant experience as it occurs within the modern medical environment, revolves around cultural un...

is they do, when they change their actions, then the image of nursing will change" (Watson, 1996, p. 142). Watson has recognized ...

on nurses increase (Cullen, 2003). Nevertheless, nurse educators and scholars stress that it is through recognition of caring as a...

a list of advantages for patients, which include: * Greater coordination of services leads to higher quality care for the patient ...

operations of nursing" (Horan, Doran and Timmins, 2004, p. 30). This is broken down into three basic categories: 1) wholly compen...