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This paper pertains to various aspects of Australian nursing identity and professionalism. Seven pages in length, eight sources a...

This paper pertains to an ethical dilemma faced by hospital nurses caring for patients who are Jehovah's Witnesses. Adherent of th...

the importance of taking assessment from a number of different, relevant perspectives. For example, mentors who are conscious that...

also as a result of the environment in which they are cared for, where smoking is banned. Teaching patients may be seen as a funct...

in African American communities in though it has level off and is falling in other US populations (Dyer, 2003). Adolescents are am...

only one group, no control group. Group exposed to treatment and then measure (Creswell, 2003). Measured participants blood gluco...

transformative perspective because Newman argues that rather than being diametrically opposed, disease and health are merely facto...

was perceived as merely the "handmaiden" of medicine, that is, a service that was there to facilitate the practice of the physicia...

rather than requiring patient transfer to ICU. This plan is consistent with the principles of planned change in that it focuses o...

activities" (Orems Self-Care Model Concepts) that patients need to undertake to meet their own health care needs on a routine basi...

A nurses dedication and selflessness recall a mothers sacrifice and care (Dworkin, 2002). Furthermore, Dworking (2002) points out ...

declined as "educators, employers and others recognize the need for educational changes in nursing" (Bednash, 2000, p. 2985). Asso...

proposed method of resolution is to design, develop and evaluate a clinical, evidence-based "diabetic education program to increas...

draw on the fundamental concepts espoused by the metaparadigms. Nevertheless, each branch of nursing theory approaches the subjec...

evaluate nursing care and use research findings in clinical practice" (Barnsteiner, Wyatt and Richardson 165). This survey reveal...

departments (Courson, 2004). It isnt that nurses have not been serving in these roles, they have but today, nurses receive speci...

train sufficient numbers of new nurses. Turnover is high among those who remain in the profession, and those so dissatisfied - an...

(1999), research shows that the level of education reached by an RN contributes to a sense of professional autonomy and those nurs...

lethal drug is given with the intent to bring about death, thus ending suffering" (28). Of course, there is a difference between ...

to physicians. Increasingly, "evidence-based guidelines are becoming codes of medical practice" (Healy, 2005; p. 54). Superficia...

over their blood glucose levels; and (3) encouraging continuous improvement in nursing knowledge and patient education. The progr...

a nurses role as a change agent in data base management. Fonville, Killian, and Tranbarger (1998) note that successful nurses of ...

the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...

incidence of fire breaking out during operations. In one of ABCs 20/20 episodes in 1998, the audience was cautioned that this ha...

her, per se, but rather with her expectations of Madeline, which are not age appropriate. The scenario says that Madeline knows be...

includes strategies that are designed to make the individual feel better, such as "exercise, spirituality, support groups and humo...

many people have these factors in common within their personal value sets, but I believe that the nurse possesses them in specific...

preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...

There are different studies that have made a partial examination of the developmental models of clinical mentorship and supervisio...

balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...