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have otherwise been a lingering existence in private homes or disreputable hospitals. Inasmuch as the nurse is "temporarily the c...

their profession to be their career and it definitely requires career-long continuous professional development. Why then, does a...

article, "Mother-Infant Skin-to-Skin Contact (Kangaroo Care)," kangaroo care offers the parents the only opportunity to engage in ...

the beginning of her career in the 1950s, Peplau indicated that she believed that the significance between the nurse and the patie...

says that families have been sorely neglected as a great deal of nursing practice continues to focus on individuals (Denham, 2003)...

of the site is that it connects to numerous opportunities for continuing education and there is a page dedicated to this purpose. ...

lethal drug is given with the intent to bring about death, thus ending suffering" (28). Of course, there is a difference between ...

Leaders create the future rather than simply become its victims (Kerfoot, 1998). They are generally thinking several months ahead,...

and allows the receiver to observe non-verbal cues as to the messages meaning. Feedback "reports back to the sender that the recei...

educators in the past, are lured away from academia by better-paying positions in clinical and private practice (Mee, 2003). Furth...

after the exposure to the initiating traumatic event (Stein, 2002). If PTSD-like symptoms become evidence and are intense prior to...

with standardized procedures, health codes, and licensing requirements, all of which have been initiated to support a level of pro...

I - Demonstrating Integrity at all times D - Showing concern for the Dignity of others E - Displaying Excellence and Empathy in ...

results from alcohol or drug misuse and which interferes with professional judgment and the delivery of safe, high quality care" (...

(Yost and Burke, 2006). The forensic LNC testified that the doctor in the case was negligent by allowing the patient to be air tra...

implementing the treatment regimen. 5. collaborating with other health care providers in determining the appropriate health care f...

critical matters, employee requests for information often go unanswered for too long. Results can and have been employee frustrat...

but fully 60 percent of charts of reporting skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) make no mention of any behavioral interventions prio...

expected to develop some form of cancer "or another rapidly debilitating condition and well be dead within a year of getting the d...

absence of disease and infirmity" ("Definitions of Health and Fitness," 2006). Health promotion, on the other hand, " is the combi...

that is, whether it will spread (metastasize) and what symptoms that it is likely to cause (Cancer diagnosis, 2005). The term "sec...

to a nursing facility, it should also be understood that each situation is unique. When both the family members and the staff of t...

the educational setting, and considers the role of school nurses. At a time when an increasing number of students are receiving s...

to produce better outcomes for patients and improve the conduct and performance of nurses and other health care employees on a dai...

as sadness. My Dad quickly smiled and patted me on the back, but in my heart I knew that my decision would forever change the cou...

particular certified nurse-midwives-- continues to increase, these impediments linger to a certain extent, and may continue to aff...

Bell (2000) reports that when an Australian hospital instituted shared governance, nurse managers responded "by developing a teamw...

objective in conducting their study was to "describe the experience of men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer and their wives,...

and statistics. This approach works well for in physics and math, but less well when applied to people. Moloney (2002) offers thre...

caused by the illnesses the may then have a negative physiological backlash on the patient. For other condition it may be the ro...