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care service has been the focus of greater scrutiny. Willging (2004) asks: "Just what is assisted living? There are still too ma...

(in English) between the years 1989 and 2004. The extent of the literature review appears to be sufficient to support the research...

Budget cutbacks, burnout and lack of student enrollment have precluded sufficient staffing in many critical areas of healthcare. ...

stress, which causes fluctuating levels of neuro-endocrine responses (Taylor, Repetti and Seeman, 1997). To understand this concep...

hospital stays (Cole and Soucy, 2003). While all ICU patients have serious and potentially life-threatening conditions, those ov...

this aspect. Before 1939, the Canadian military women would serve as nurses during the Northwest Rebellion in 1885 as well as in t...

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

also a former student of Vivians is now in the rather awkward position of also being one of her doctors, as he is an intern and re...

of the study by stating it explicitly: "The purpose of this study was to explore how undergraduate nursing students learn to care ...

individual is walking, the thorax rotates in "clockwise and counter-clockwise directions," which are "opposite the pelvic rotation...

are able to make error reports without fear of reprisal. Nevertheless, the consequence of possible disciplinary action and repris...

for patient survival" (Kelley, 2005, p. 2). When the blood volume in the body is too low, it activates "compensatory mechanisms" t...

be discussed relative to both previous research and the studies that have come after it. This research tends to substantiate the s...

critique of this study will both summarize and analyze the various sections of Coetzees article, which describes this research, a...

in a laboratory situation (Licking, 1998; Brownlee and Schrof, 1998). Many of these cells, in fact, have the capability of develo...

one else to do them and she saw a need (Krain, 2002). "She recruited another nurse and began working out of a fifth floor apartmen...

by trying things out)...reflective learners (learn by thinking things through, working alone) 5. sequential learners (linear, orde...

A 7 page client profile that discusses nursing care for an elderly client with degenerative brain disease and offers a research su...

have "little or no training in fundamental management skills" (Baer, 2006, p. 60). As well as absenteeism, problems with managemen...

a nurse to determine which elderly patients are being abused because a sense of shame or a desire to protect the family member who...

Roughly 50 percent of the current working nursing population will retire within the next 15 years (Mee and Robinson, 2003). Adding...

left to deny anything connected with the loss, either before or after the fact. Those left behind also need to acknowledge the me...

which initiates a series of events that will either successful contain the infection or prompt it progression toward active diseas...

that are often incurred as a natural part of the aging process (Wang and Wollin, 2004). These changes include "impaired vision and...

view as well, developing theories of nursing that focus on nursing and its components as systems of varying degrees. Some, such a...

an "integration of feelings with knowledge and experience" (Cumbie, 2001, p. 56). Nurses, as caregivers, have to reflect on their ...

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

frequently use mental health nurses as a means for expanding services (Winefield and Chur-Hansen, 2004). The following examination...

degrees of restricted motion (Swank and Lehnert 631). Computer-assisted systems (CAS) have been developed to aid surgeons in obtai...

currently has 9 major nursing schools, which include the University of Pennsylvania (one of the most renowned facilities in the Un...