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for APNs. One such path is to be a nurse anesthetist, who is a licensed APN who is considered to be using personal professional ju...

required qualified, competent staff. This resulted in the establishment of training schools for nurses (Formal training, 2005). Un...

not money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely woul...

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

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...

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

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

In six pages this paper examines the family nurse practitioner within the context of the transcultural nursing theories of Dr. Mad...

In six pages this paper examines the nurse's role from an ambulatory care perspective with service complexities and constant chang...

potential for long term physiological complications as well as long-term emotional impacts. Not only does the type of care needed...

(BNE:NPA, 2006). To investigate for heart disease was clearly indicated by physicians orders and, furthermore, Eddie failed to not...

This 3 page paper provides an overview of a nursing recommendation. This paper gives a number of reasons why the student would be...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

as well as those studies that have suggested broadening students exposure to families and children with special needs. This discus...

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

in nursing educators aged 36 to 45 (Lewallen, et al, 2003). To complicate matters further, recent statistics show that nurses wh...

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...

much broader in its application. It is this broadness that allows nurses to reach across religious lines and distinctions. In a su...

Family crisis). However, society itself is made up of smaller units, of which the family is one, and therefore structural function...

move in concentric circles of caring--from individuals, to others, to community, to (the) world" (Vance, 2003). Caring science inv...

naturally create a prime source of psychic conflict for nurses, which would facilitate the development of burnout. Jenkins, Ellio...