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risk factors that can be altered, with special attention to lowering cholesterol and blood pressure. B. Treatment of ischemia usua...

such as medical history as well as their role in consultation and also in the way that preventative healthcare is delivered, the ...

and continues to do so, over the past two decades, as it was first published in 1979 (Falk-Rafael, 2000). In formulating her theor...

member with a meaningful recovery experience? When did you first realize that you wanted to help others? Relating personal details...

to the wide-ranging aspect of nursing than merely administering medicine; in fact, the myriad components that ultimately comprise ...

a long period, have the opportunity to build relationships with them and are able to come to know the individual patients response...

nursing care over the past decade and how do they support the argument for a continuum of educational practices for nursing profes...

over the course of several years of research into the issue. Most styles also depend on an array of variables including "organiza...

Rural Nurses, represented by registered nurse and practicing attorney Jacqulyn Hall, filed an amici curiae (friends of the court) ...

students. Why is there a nursing shortage? Basically, there is a nursing shortage because governments have not done what was requ...

of a unified health care organization that included both Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH...

recognition of cultural and social influences on health care outcomes. As a result, advanced practice nurses have also become int...

advocates, providing medical treatments prescribed by physicians, and keeping accurate records of changes in patient status (Nurse...

of the greatest areas of concern. Finding sufficient time for school, as well as all other activities required of the student, was...

the very act of following the "law" (i.e., supply and demand) of economics now has exacerbated the shortage of nurses who also are...

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

influential resource and is a resource in which the patient will rely. Ethics Issues In this paper the treatment of a pati...

issue of regulatory interest when attached to direct patient care (Nursing, 2004). As few nurses with no patient responsibilities...

nurse, 2005). In addition to basic educational preparation at the RN level, oncology nursing practice also requires cancer-speci...

2003). Most international nurses coming to the US come from the Philippines, but many also come from Canada and India with addit...

will--in all likelihood--result in a professional negligence suit, rather than criminal charges. Suits against nurses result from ...

Smith, et al. (2002) explain that their purpose "was to investigate the effects of therapeutic massage on selected outcomes relate...

legislation that authorizes a Nurse Licensure Compact (National Council of the State Boards of Nursing, Nurse Licensure Compact, 2...

Additionally, the model also "incorporates a life span continuum, where the individual passes from fully dependent at birth, to fu...

in death is a wise safeguard. In the early part of the twentieth century, rationalizations abounded in medical literature that def...

the nursing theorists that have come after her (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003). The interactive model focuses on the significant of ...

partners in the healthcare process. Through training and education, nurses learn to make decisions on multiple issues of patient c...

are necessary for patient survival" (Kelley, 2005, p. 2). When the blood volume in the body is too low, it activates "compensatory...

it comes to orders, medications, tests, transfers and so on. Another problem for both physicians and nurses is identifying all p...

of the patient experience" (Engebretson 20). The background provided by a large, close-knit family means that, from childhood, I h...