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Nursing as a Profession and its Distinguishing Features

exist for generations. Though Nightingale promoted a professional demeanor, nursing was not something that most well-bred women w...

Nursing Profession and Medication Errors

that nurse is guilty of doing something unethical. Nurses must impose a high standard of care in the office, hospital or home sett...

Reflection, Experience, and Training Competence Building

and was told not to consider having children for fear of passing on defective genes (Sheldon, 1997; p. 34). This occurred d...

Nursing Profession and Hispanics

of the great need for Hispanic nurses which has been created by the growing Hispanic population, this occupational choice presents...

Energy Conservation and Nursing

From this perspective, individuals can be viewed as open systems, in which energy is transformed within the body, gaining or losin...

Beyond Caring by DF Chambliss

parameters of his perspective and goals, and, specifically, refers to the unique orientation of nursing. "Nurses encounter patient...

Profession of Nursing

not unusual given that there is a common perception that the higher a persons educational attainment the greater level of employme...

Nursing and the Management of Time

reveal a steady growth in the number of nurses joining unions due to discontent" (Blankenheim 2001, p. 13). They are doing so to l...

Article Review and Discussion of Nursing Mentoring

interactions with their patients and with each other have. Kurt Lewins change theory holds that change is incremental. It occurs...

Nursing and Motivation

2003, p. 50). Comments went on to say that it is disheartening when they arent acknowledged in any way for the hard work they do (...

Philosophy of Nursing and Values

money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely would no...

Shared Governance v. Collective Bargaining in Nursing Labor Relations

for protocol and for adhering to standard practice. There are many aspects of the job for which the nurse is best suited to addre...

Student Interest in the Nursing Profession

just need a positive touch from another human being. The student investigating the relationship of nursing contribution to patien...

Substance Abuse in Nursing

Not only are the direct health impacts to the nurse deleterious, impaired nurses cannot meet their responsibility to provide top q...

Elements of Psychiatric Nursing Practice

who is the legal guardian, as this pertains to the legality of admitting a minor for psychiatric care. If the patient is accompani...

Nursing and 2 Qualitative Research Articles Critiqued

including critical attributes, communication processes, and the overall benefits of school-based support groups in addressing the ...

Nursing and Distance Education

a video that presents the patients symptoms and are presented with the question "What is the most likely differential diagnosis ba...

Profession of Nursing

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

Euthanasia's Pros and Cons

and antibiotics" (Ersek, 2005, p. 48). Upon first glance, it would appear that euthanasia is an application that is in direct con...

Nursing Profession and Men

degree (CBS News). Where 4.1 percent of new female nurses leave the profession after four years, 7.5 percent of new male nurses lo...

Nursing Profession and 'Telehealth' Implications

and was replaced by the broader term, telehealth (Maheu et al 7). The definition has also evolved to encompass all types of healt...

Legislation on Nursing Overtime

the risk of medical errors, such as dispensing the wrong medication or the wrong dose (Nursing overtime, 2004). The study, which w...

Nursing Management and Leadership

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

Nursing Profession and English Instruction Benefits

be more enlightening and convey a more precise meaning than an extended descriptive passage. At this point, the student researchin...

Nursing's Core Values

the changes that have occurred since she founded modern nursing. "Florence Nightingale provided us with a framework, relevant tod...

Nursing and the Impact of 1996's Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

in 2000, allowing a long comment period before the final rule was issued in February 2003. Five rules were published in 199...

Hand Washing and the Care of Patients

preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...

Nursing Practice and the Opposition of Euthanasia

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

'Military Industrial Complex' Warning of Outgoing President Dwight Eisenhower

to physicians. Increasingly, "evidence-based guidelines are becoming codes of medical practice" (Healy, 2005; p. 54). Superficia...

A Summary and Analysis of the American Nurses Association Code of Ethics

and safety" (ANA, 2005). After all, if a nurse does not take steps to preserve her or his own safety, the nurse cannot adequately ...