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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 ...

draw on the fundamental concepts espoused by the metaparadigms. Nevertheless, each branch of nursing theory approaches the subjec...

evaluate nursing care and use research findings in clinical practice" (Barnsteiner, Wyatt and Richardson 165). This survey reveal...

departments (Courson, 2004). It isnt that nurses have not been serving in these roles, they have but today, nurses receive speci...

the importance of taking assessment from a number of different, relevant perspectives. For example, mentors who are conscious that...

also as a result of the environment in which they are cared for, where smoking is banned. Teaching patients may be seen as a funct...

in African American communities in though it has level off and is falling in other US populations (Dyer, 2003). Adolescents are am...

proposed method of resolution is to design, develop and evaluate a clinical, evidence-based "diabetic education program to increas...

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...

A nurses dedication and selflessness recall a mothers sacrifice and care (Dworkin, 2002). Furthermore, Dworking (2002) points out ...

declined as "educators, employers and others recognize the need for educational changes in nursing" (Bednash, 2000, p. 2985). Asso...

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

includes strategies that are designed to make the individual feel better, such as "exercise, spirituality, support groups and humo...

many people have these factors in common within their personal value sets, but I believe that the nurse possesses them in specific...

for the precise coding of medication in order to avoid the errors listed above (Woods and Doan-Johnson, 2002). Cohen, Robinson and...

and allows the receiver to observe non-verbal cues as to the messages meaning. Feedback "reports back to the sender that the recei...

is a very important consideration in nursing. Indeed, some four thousand of so documents were published annually about pain in th...

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

or chronic illness; however, nurse practitioners also have additional intensive education that involves risk reduction and prevent...

help each other by merely listening and offering words of encouragement. My psychologist friend firmly believed that lifestyle ch...

runs $127 on average (Cummings, 2002). The goal of the ALF is to help senior citizens maintain as much independence as possible wi...

"significant anxiety, particularly before they discover the most effective symptom management" (Moloney, et al, 2001, p. 19). In o...

their own condition. Judkins and Ingram (2002) designed a self-paced learning module in order to determine whether knowledge relat...

on diabetes into categories and addresses these topics on separate web pages, as does the first site. The homepage explains that t...

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

trying times of their lives. Nurses have the capacity to improve lives. Nothing could be more meaningful or provide a greater sens...

Developing New Nurse Leaders also considers the issue of shifts in leadership and governance, with a focus on the role of nurses a...

1999). Lee and his family owned a small business and had no health or medical insurance. The family was urged to begin the process...