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practitioner surgeries are run by practice nurses, only making referrals to other members of the healthcare team when required, Th...

prepared for this role" (McKenna, 1997, p. 87). Perhaps most significant of all was Florence Nightingales belief that env...

and static in their nature. That characteristic has, in fact, increased over the two century history of the organization. Polsby...

The metaparadigms of nursing represent common concepts that are accepted throughout the profession and across international bounda...

reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...

An effective and valuable nurse is one who has sound technical knowledge and experience in applying it, but who also is a superlat...

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

nurse seeks to preserve any culture-specific aspect of the patients life everywhere possible. When some culturally-linked aspect ...

authors state that research "and theory are key underpinnings that guide safe, effective, and comprehensive" (p. 35) practice. As...

therapeutic manner (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003). This relationship may refer to a single individual, or the "person" may be a sma...

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

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

individuals personal integrity, which is defined as a "sense of worth which can be conserved through consideration of cultural, et...

discuss the impact of the mans drinking on his wife and children. Although the author makes an attempt to include women in a chap...

(Country Studies, 2006). Also, by the 1970s, most of the countries in that region had become independent of British control (Count...

getting into debt, and he could look forward to a secure and comfortable retirement" (p. D8). That is no longer true, only the wea...

sin and transgression. For example, this discussion could bring out the ways in which both Hester and her daughter Pearl are socia...

A pertinent issue to foreign nurse recruitment, as a method for alleviating the shortage of nurses in US hospitals, is the number ...

when nurses are needed the most, which is when we are ill (line 12). This is when "Nurses come through, with their care and goodwi...

noted that cases of a rare lung infection, pneumocystis carinni pneumonia, had occurred in Los Angeles and also that three young m...

(Green, 2004a). A travel nurse, on the other hand, is typically contracted to work a 13-week period, and this usually includes an ...

This essay offers a scenario teaching nurses and assistant to prevent UTIs associated with catheters. The essay describes the sett...

The SCDNT regards the meta-paradigm of "Nursing" as an art, that is, a "helping service," but also as a technology ("Dorothea," 20...

also possess knowledge concerning a particular family as a whole, including the intricacies of its family system, the position of ...

This paper is divided into related sections and includes a case scenario to which Leininger's transcultural nursing theory is appl...

This statement presents an example paper of how to present a nursing educator's personal philosophy on teaching. The theory of mul...

Children and adolescents make many transitions during their lifetimes, one of which is the transition from elementary to middle sc...

explain Watsons Caring Theory, including "Caring Science Ten Caritas Processes," "definitions," "Ten Caritas Processes" and more. ...

recognized categories for APNs within this state (TBoN, 2006). The scope of practice for Tennessee APNs includes the legal abili...

Based on their results, the authors suggested nurse educators add more critical thinking exercises to their classroom curriculum. ...