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information about the shortage of nurses and the consequences. This was achieved as demonstrated in the following brief report of ...

The paper begins by briefly identifying and explaining three of the standard change theory/models. The stages of each are named. T...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This essay focuses on Watson's nursing theory of caring. It reports and explains the meta-paradigms, caratives, and how nurses dev...

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

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

relationships, in terms of power dynamics and the initiation and resolution of conflicts. Communication theory is, therefore, impo...

and technology, however, she refers to these elements as the "Trim," which is a term she originated that differentiates between ca...

perspective, is viewed as "the optimal level of ones potential relating to the environment" (Tourville and Ingalls 22). For examp...

order to infer what theoretical framework is being utilized, and why such a framework is appropriate for the context. This parag...

of professional nursing, nursing theory provides perspectives and guidance that aids nurses in achieving their primary goal of pro...

In six pages this paper examines the family nurse practitioner within the context of the transcultural nursing theories of Dr. Mad...

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, ...

old signs of questionable care still apply, however. Unexplained injury or falls, the occurrence of pressure sores, and evidence ...