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socially isolating, as outside opinion is discounted. The team adopts a "defensive posture," which is evidenced by "derogatory, de...

Nightingale as power-crazed and iron-willed. Salvage (2001) tends to believe that these criticisms of Nightingale reflect lingerin...

Kanters position that the situational aspects of a working environment have the ability to influence worker attitudes and behavior...

we had a helper who came in during the day and a nurse at night. Both of them were kind, experienced and very caring, and I could ...

study also examined the availability of information resources available to the RN respondents (both at work and at home). Their fi...

(Domrose, 2001). However, current trends have developed that have greatly expanded the scope of med-surg nursing, which includes a...

But, it also refers to the fact that nurses "shape and transform the environment" as well as offer care within the context of an e...

Statement, 2006). It is also a goal of HHC to "join with other health workers and with communities in a partnership" (Mission Sta...

records and kept him and his family informed about his progress to date and what he could expect along the path to recovery. Nurs...

those under stress or who are unhappy with their lives. For this reason there has been a higher use in poorer social classes where...

today will reach retirement age within 15 years (Mee and Robinson, 2003). At the same time, fewer people are entering nursing, as ...

nurse anesthetist. For one week, I watched the interactions between the nurse anesthetist and other professionals, as well as the...

images represent some aspect of nursing? Examination of this question shows that two of these images are particularly helpful in d...

and nurses need to be and has generated capacity and energy within that body of nursing to reach that vision" (Ralko 6). A princip...

leader. Finally, my educational objectives include demonstrating an awareness of and a skill for nursing research, which requires...

The concept of health also has undergone change over the years. It formerly referred to absence of disease, but now it generally ...

and Robinson, 2003). Another element complicating the problem is the fact that in the early 1990s, many hospitals restructured a...

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

theoretical framework for promoting professional development through the use of quality circles. This management theory involves a...

a method which pursues both action and understanding at the same time, and points out that it is particularly relevant in situatio...

(p. 835) among Medicaid residents of Massachusetts nursing homes between 1991 and 1994. This mixed method (i.e., quantitative as ...

well. This study also appears to be sound scientifically. Its primary means of data analysis is statistical; the methods b...

to changes which in turn can result in higher costs and reduced perceived quality of care. Primary nursing is not a new con...

p. 144). Each has value, but each exists with a paradox. The more abstract theories are more easily generalized, but more diffic...

expected only to continue for several years to come. Then, growth will begin to decline in response to fewer numbers of people re...

determine their relationships with others, as well as pull people of similar interests and often similar personalities together an...

that have affected my choice of working as a nurse. Of course many people have these factors in common within their personal valu...

during which time they reviewed data regarding the patient and made adjustments to the clinical care program. The advanced practic...

(Snyder and Lindquist, 2001). Under this philosophy the social factors and even the spiritual factors of an individuals existen...

Statistics expects that number to rise to more than one million in less than 20 years. The American Nurses Association and Monste...