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to five-times the risk for CHD, which contrasts sharply with the double risk encountered in African American men. There is also a ...

the ability of an institution to deliver quality, error-free care. At the Six Sigma level, there are roughly "3.4 errors per one m...

college degree is now a requirement for all registered nurses. A nursing major is comprised of a diverse and challenging liberal ...

report, admissions, and emergency situations" (Griffin, 2003, p. 135). The rationale for this policy is that it protects the confi...

12-21, live relatively sedentary lives, as they are not active enough to successfully maintain good health (Covelli, 2007). The in...

(Allmark, 2003, p. 4). Poststructuralism: This perspective takes a deconstructive view of structuralism and "sees inquiry as ine...

rituals of this religion in order to offer quality care. They should know, for instance, that an Orthodox Jew is required to wash ...

nurses can become political active, as these organizations frequently play an active role in establishing public policy by publica...

directly with families in their home, aiding them with complex care situations (Denham, 2003). How has the family changed? In 20...

the problem of teaching students with diverse backgrounds and abilities and refer to the 1997 report of the National Committee of ...

Background/Review of Literature The eight articles/studies that constitute this literature review encompasses several key concept...

a peaceful death among terminal patients. HSBs of specific groups of any size - whether large or small - are positively related t...

in any other state must, as of January 1, 2008, have a masters or another advanced graduate degree in nursing (Phillips, 2005). Wi...

to proper interaction with culturally diverse patients: "These standards provide comprehensive definitions of culture, competence,...

should be political informed by drawing on a variety of sources for information; vote for the candidates and/or ballot issues that...

time to actively conduct a research study, lack of time to read current research, nurses do not have time to read much of the rese...

nurses by 2012 to eliminate the shortage (Rosseter, 2009). By 2020, the District of Columbia along with at least 44 states will ha...

at the moment of unconcealedness. She wanted a poet to describe nurses work: not what was visible, such as the emptying of a bedp...

imagines that implementation of the practicum could take several different formats. For example, it may consist of formulating a c...

out care. Though there is a need for health care providers as a whole to have a greater awareness of the diagnostic process for b...

in harmony and when they dont, osteoporosis is the result (Kantrowitz, 2007). Bone mineral density is generally measured as a T-s...

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

these reforms. The data revealed a "sense of tension and conflict between nurses traditional values, roles and responsibilities ...

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

nurses regarding physical touch, found that these study participants used touch as a therapeutic form of nonverbal communication, ...

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

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...

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

no education. Children were left to their own devices to discover the intimacies of one of the most personal activities of human ...

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