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The paper begins by briefly identifying and explaining three of the standard change theory/models. The stages of each are named. T...

"interactive, systems, and developmental" approaches (Tourville and Ingalls 21). The systems model of nursing perceives the meta...

expectancy is increasing and more people are surviving serious illness and living longer with chronic illness. At the same time, t...

nurses should understand these patients thoroughly, "who they are, where they live and with whom, their current health status and ...

many of the findings of nursing research have little or no relevance to their daily practice. Im and Meleis (1999) cite several re...

This involves intensive, one-on-one teaching, which enables autistic children to learn the intricacies of behaviors or skills via ...

information. These guidelines are also based on this researchers finding that self-care promotes the pediatric patients spiritual ...

with their illness decreases and their partners ability to help them with the process is impeded as well. Decreased communication...

ability to empower and grow people" (Gokenbach, 2003, p. 8). Over the past decade, there have been numerous studies that have fou...

to work efficiently and effectively across cultural boundaries. This concept also encompasses not only the assumption that nurses,...

illustrates how she ignored the potential for causing harm when she increased the patients drugs; only after the medication had be...

secretary, should leave the ward when there were fewer than three children on the unit and work a second adult unit as well. He wa...

the study intervention. Also, as yet, Cook is not clear about the purposes, aims or goals of the study. Literature Review While ...

concepts dominated the field of stress research beginning in the 1950s; however, by the 1970s, there was opposition to Selyes stre...

York found that, in the past, ambulance diversions were a seasonal event. However, more recent research finds that diversional sta...

profession is very rewarding, if at times very difficult and even heartbreaking. This paper describes the Good Samaritan College o...

neighbor who incurred a head injury and did not want to go to a hospital because she lacked the funds to pay for treatment. Wardan...

the profession of nursing has developed some basic ideas that serve as the foundation that guides all subsequent professional prac...

Advances in technology have changed everything from how patients are diagnosed to acute care to managing chronic illnesses. Techno...

and technology, however, she refers to these elements as the "Trim," which is a term she originated that differentiates between ca...

overall umbrella of informatics (Ericksen, 2011). For example, nurses specializing in informatics within the context of a hospital...

relational dyads, and the part of a larger social collective. Family values, individual culture and social constructs all impact ...

their coworkers and their employees, because the leader creates a foundation from which the organizational goals can be achieved. ...

well with Watsons care model. Watson has seven assumptions, the first is that care is demonstrated in an interpersonal level (Geor...

the factors that make nursing unique The Department of Nursing at California State University at Fresno defines nursing as a "uni...

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

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

NAON recognizes that learning and developing professional is a life-long processes and it helps orthopedic nurses achieve the goal...

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

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