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

II. Population The target population for this inquiry are children of the world. However, the population needs to be narrowed as...

what was said in the first sentence of this essay - nurse shortages results in nurses being given unrealistic workloads (DPE Resea...

showing that they graduated from a nursing education program approved by the Georgia Board of Nursing or from a nursing education ...

a strategic factor in a broader movement toward social transformation that stresses social equity (Downey 249). This transformatio...

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

the needs of the dying and her work indicates that there are times when the most meaningful communication that a nurse can offer i...

of ear infection (Chronic otitis media, 2003). OM is a serious childhood illness because, if not properly treated, it can lead to ...

act as integral members of healthcare teams, provide direct and indirect patient care, and address central issues for patients, in...

regards to lung function. If patients cannot breath on their own, RTs are trained on how to intubate patients and connect them to ...

ability has improved considerably, inasmuch as the decisions I now make are more analytical and based upon a broader and more dive...

education for nurses in the US followed the model established by modern nursings founder Florence Nightingale (Fitzpatrick 63). Th...

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

train sufficient numbers of new nurses. Turnover is high among those who remain in the profession, and those so dissatisfied - an...

(1999), research shows that the level of education reached by an RN contributes to a sense of professional autonomy and those nurs...

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

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

over their blood glucose levels; and (3) encouraging continuous improvement in nursing knowledge and patient education. The progr...

a nurses role as a change agent in data base management. Fonville, Killian, and Tranbarger (1998) note that successful nurses of ...

There are different studies that have made a partial examination of the developmental models of clinical mentorship and supervisio...

balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...

was perceived as merely the "handmaiden" of medicine, that is, a service that was there to facilitate the practice of the physicia...

rather than requiring patient transfer to ICU. This plan is consistent with the principles of planned change in that it focuses o...

only one group, no control group. Group exposed to treatment and then measure (Creswell, 2003). Measured participants blood gluco...

transformative perspective because Newman argues that rather than being diametrically opposed, disease and health are merely facto...

the disease as well as around the prevention of the spread of the causative organism to other individuals that come into contact w...

that the doctrine of informed consent is "hopelessly flawed--or at least misguided," as it is often not possible to truly inform ...

Sharon Bernier, RN, PhD and President of the National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing, points out that Aikens study also...

considering this economic downturn, the numbers of undergraduates pursuing nursing careers began to also decline. In 1991, Canada ...

learned long ago the value of yet another Deming (1986) exhortation, that of continuous improvement. By definition, the concept i...