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a mentor and/or a preceptor. Mentoring is the "process through which a relationship is established between an experienced indivi...

these reforms. The data revealed a "sense of tension and conflict between nurses traditional values, roles and responsibilities ...

cost in the short term" versus "production and cost in the long term." The short-term, also know as the short-run, is the period o...

In five pages this paper considers 3 of Kant's formulations regarding a lone categorical imperative as presented in his philosophi...

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

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

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 ...

all aspects of nursing. While the prime relationship in nursing is the one between the nurse and patient, relationships between nu...

perceived self-efficacy (Capik, 1998). JJ explained how Penders theory guides her priorities in establishing educational goals, ...

Family crisis). However, society itself is made up of smaller units, of which the family is one, and therefore structural function...

move in concentric circles of caring--from individuals, to others, to community, to (the) world" (Vance, 2003). Caring science inv...

and continues to do so, over the past two decades, as it was first published in 1979 (Falk-Rafael, 2000). In formulating her theor...

36). Both a therapeutic and social relationship are featured in the film Good Will Hunting (1997). The protagonist in the film, ...

lawyers, uncaring nurses and pedophile clergy is to cut back on scientific research--a tenuous conclusion at best. Where the art...

the mountains in California, ride a horse in the Grand Canyon, volunteer in a cancer center, finish painting his house, attend his...

formulation with others, testing new behaviors, integrating this learning into "new, more satisfying behavior, and then using thes...

effectiveness has been studied extensively, and that studies consistently conclude that NP-based care is comparable to that origin...

and can be applied in a variety of clinical settings, as well as in educational programs and research. Orems theory is bas...

I replied that I could develop a program with her supervision, that nurses were more interested in furthering their training than ...

not money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely woul...

many of the findings of nursing research have little or no relevance to their daily practice. Im and Meleis (1999) cite several re...

Aesthetic, the need for beauty, order and symmetry (Huitt, 2004). 7. Self-actualization is a plateau not all people reach. At this...

patient care (Hassmiller and Cozine, 2006). Some strategies proposed by RWJF for helping to decrease the tremendous workload on nu...

at the moment of unconcealedness. She wanted a poet to describe nurses work: not what was visible, such as the emptying of a bedp...

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares these two approaches to nursing theory that are based upon the concepts of nursing,...

family as it enables the family system to be regarded in a myriad of ways (1998). Here, the family may be evaluated holistically, ...

In eight pages this report discusses the nurse's role in a consideration of leadership styles and theories. Ten sources are cited...