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nursing from the time when Florence Nightingale founded modern nursing in the nineteenth century. Since Nightingale, a variety of ...

The SCDNT regards the meta-paradigm of "Nursing" as an art, that is, a "helping service," but also as a technology ("Dorothea," 20...

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

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

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

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

of the study by stating it explicitly: "The purpose of this study was to explore how undergraduate nursing students learn to care ...

by the caring physical presence of this nurse in her last remaining hours. However, the way in which this case turned out saw the ...

between those who supported mandatory staffing ratios, based on research such as the study conducted by Linda Aiken, and the stanc...

A 7 page client profile that discusses nursing care for an elderly client with degenerative brain disease and offers a research su...

provided in their own home. Services offered include, but are not limited to, general nursing services, physical and occupational ...

number of patients, in other words) and the incidence of injury at nursing homes, making this correlation a worthwhile problem to ...

utilized 184 consecutive patients. All of the patients who were admitted were provided with informed consent. The researche...

By addressing this need, which includes rehabilitation designed to aid her mobility, nursing intervention can also have a positive...

prompts nurses to cultivate the "conscious intent to preserve wholeness; potentiate healing; and preserve dignity, integrity and l...

between a patient and a doctor in a community practice setting" (Manias, 2010, p. 934). However, this scenario is no longer the mo...

and how this equipment should differ for this population: Bariatric patients are typically defined as those who are extremely obe...

client who is the focus of this case study is an 86-year-old woman who has been living at home with her husband. Her medical histo...

of literature pertaining to type 2 diabetes mellitus, begins by describing, summarizing and analyzing the study conducted by Barko...

It also is clear that readily accessible primary care services are essential to achieving effective health care reform. The World ...

is in charge of all domestic affairs. Younger newly wed couples will often live with one set of parents, even if they are going to...

caring; 2. every human culture has lay (generic, folk or indigenous) care knowledge and practices and usually some professional ca...

with sudden flashbacks intruding on thoughts (Fagan and Freme, 2004). Other symptoms include: an exaggerated startle reflex, sleep...

in the overall quality of care delivered by community health nurses (CHNs) is providing end-of-life care that is holistic and cong...

for competency, the use do surveys to assess standards and the evaluation of clients as well as the provision of a complaints hotl...

computerized or electronic patient records. 1c. To discuss these findings with supervisor/mentor to consider how the information...

arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways and all other products of human work and thought..." (Purnell, 2005, p. 7). It is the eth...

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

While only 6 percent of newborns require advanced life support in 1997, the rise in the number of neonates since that time weighin...

inflamed, tender to the touch and evident of a small amount of pus (DAlessandro et al, 2004), becoming more painful as time progre...