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This essay describes traits and values that are associated with being a nursing educator, learner responsibilities and the profess...

This essay presents an example paper that students can use as a guide in writing about an interview that with a nursing leader. Th...

way, before his mind too, was gone." As a nurse, this presented me with what I felt were two conflicting goals. On the one hand, ...

at high risk for preterm labor would have the effect of reducing preterm labor rates; this has not been the case. Studies in Franc...

owes the same duties of care to herself or himself as is owed to patients. A nurse cannot adequately attend to patients if that nu...

avoidance, such as creating a buddy system, which pairs elderly neighbors with each other. Buddies check on one another and accomp...

indicates that 51 percent of patients who are older than 65 received no medication information at the time of hospital discharge H...

that the legal struggle took on her family was immense. Her father never recovered emotionally and committed suicide (Colby, 2002)...

own studies in numerous areas, such as formal logic, metaphysics, action theories, and to her readings of Aristotle, Aquinas and m...

the situation, the charge nurse might take a number of different actions in response to this information. For example, the charge ...

researchers (JBI, 2008). This section of the site also addresses the topic of "Research Training" and the availability of scholars...

the listeners would occasional offer comments and observations, to which the rabbi would generally respond. Occasionally, this pro...

precisely the same as for other patients. Legal responsibility for care decisions in cases where there is a living will: does the...

Rhoads essay on the life and experiences of a nurse in Vietnam gives a chilling clarity of the realities with which medical person...

assisting registered nurses (RNs) in order to meet legislated requirements (Schaefer 9). This means that while RNs have fewer pati...

announcing that shes "fine" and then another year or two will pass before the next outburst of psychosis. There is resignation an...

and one must wonder - Why? This article suggested the reasons have to do with physician fears of having a malpractice lawsuit file...

perceives as her "rival." Rather they listen to the girl, and in the case of all good villains she switches the blame, "She is b...

In six pages this essay examines mentoring and discusses the role a nurse can play in the role of teacher or mentor with adult lea...

and the American Nurses Association found somewhat "paternalistic and demeaning" as the guide determined that "the physician is re...

trying times of their lives. Nurses have the capacity to improve lives. Nothing could be more meaningful or provide a greater sens...

be more enlightening and convey a more precise meaning than an extended descriptive passage. At this point, the student researchin...

the basic paradigms of nursing professional theory are considered within a social context. For example, health is defined as a "dy...

is designed to ensure that "Patients have access to needed care" and that healthcare providers are "free to practice medicine with...

parameters of his perspective and goals, and, specifically, refers to the unique orientation of nursing. "Nurses encounter patient...

and the spirit says, "Ahhh, everything feels much better now" (Wooten, 2005, p. 510). Another factor in her relationships with c...

weaker, less developed than the other. This delayed his walking, and, even after he walked successfully at age 3, it took several ...

program will foster my highest level of achievement and help me focus on both the immediacy of my educational process and the deve...

properly, nursing staff is highly aware of this lack. Research into nursing staff retention has found that the quality of housekee...

Integrity in this sense is about wholeness as opposed to how we often use the term (to mean honesty) (Johansson, 2002). It is abou...