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(p. 835) among Medicaid residents of Massachusetts nursing homes between 1991 and 1994. This mixed method (i.e., quantitative as ...

a method which pursues both action and understanding at the same time, and points out that it is particularly relevant in situatio...

to changes which in turn can result in higher costs and reduced perceived quality of care. Primary nursing is not a new con...

leader. Finally, my educational objectives include demonstrating an awareness of and a skill for nursing research, which requires...

and nurses need to be and has generated capacity and energy within that body of nursing to reach that vision" (Ralko 6). A princip...

the associates course of study to address the very things that can make the greatest difference in patient outcomes and satisfacti...

But, it also refers to the fact that nurses "shape and transform the environment" as well as offer care within the context of an e...

study also examined the availability of information resources available to the RN respondents (both at work and at home). Their fi...

(Domrose, 2001). However, current trends have developed that have greatly expanded the scope of med-surg nursing, which includes a...

Nightingale as power-crazed and iron-willed. Salvage (2001) tends to believe that these criticisms of Nightingale reflect lingerin...

we had a helper who came in during the day and a nurse at night. Both of them were kind, experienced and very caring, and I could ...

records and kept him and his family informed about his progress to date and what he could expect along the path to recovery. Nurs...

upholding the human dignity of the people involved, as well as their "unique biopsychosocial, cultural, (and) spiritual being" (LM...

due to a number of reasons. First of all, the average age of the population is getting progressive older. As a people. America, an...

Another issue is that of inexperience. Because nursing tends to be such a high turnover field, new graduates are frequently hired ...

for certainty is that as demand for health care services grows, nurses will be pressed more and more into taking over doctors duti...

have simply left the profession (Fox and Abrahamson, 2009). Buerhaus, Auerbach and Staiger (2009) reported that while there has b...

In 2001, health care spending as a percentage of GDP was 14.1 percent, or $5,035 per capita (Levit, Smith, Cowan, Lazenby, Senseni...

budget restraints. Nurses leave the profession because they are "distressed by being unable to provide quality nursing care, disgr...

1999). Elderly patients who are alert, and not declared incompetent, have the right to refuse treatment, which includes turning or...

Beginning in the early 1990s, managed care targeted nursing as an expenditure where hospitals could cut costs. Managed care consul...

the new paradigm becomes the new standard. Lewin once commented, "If you want to truly understand something, try to change it" (Go...

affect the level of health care available to individuals in sub-Saharan nations, the exodus of qualified health care providers and...

since the survey was initiated in 1977, for example, between 1992 and 1996, the number of nurses grew by 14.2 percent (Mee, 2001)....

US shortage has caused many healthcare institutions to look for nurses outside their countrys borders and many nurses are leaving ...

have a negative impact on the quality of patient care, says Dr. Paul F. Clark, professor of labor studies and industrial relations...

for registered nurses by 2010 (Feeg 8). While statistics such as these have received a great deal of press, what is less well kno...

educators in the past, are lured away from academia by better-paying positions in clinical and private practice (Mee, 2003). Furth...

a little less than a third of them were under the age of 40 (Meadows, 2002, p. 46). This offered conclusive proof that number of ...

of the great need for Hispanic nurses which has been created by the growing Hispanic population, this occupational choice presents...