SEARCH RESULTS

In eleven pages this paper discusses legal issues of which nurses should be aware, lawsuit avoidance, and the importance of malpra...

crosses over all these disciplines (Warda, 2001). Family is defined broadly to incorporate the diverse structures of family in to...

time were better qualified to make such definitions. Baker had received her preliminary degree in nursing in 1945, a degree which...

they are working in the field now indicates that they understand the concepts and were successful in completing the ranges of stud...

the individual as a complete system with identifiable and separate segments. Neumans system theory has been widely studied and us...

individual, regardless of that individuals station in or stage of life. Todays nurse has many duties and answers to people and ad...

collating and analysing data in a way which minimises potential error and can be used by subsequent researchers. For instance, if ...

In five pages this paper examines literature regarding the nurse's role in educating hospitalized patients on smoking cessation. ...

have more opportunity to encounter difficulties involved in nursing the critically ill. "How frequently a given stressor occurs d...

different that needs attention, but many have been able to prepare for the changes that are happening to them. Geriatric patients...

many of the findings of nursing research have little or no relevance to their daily practice. Im and Meleis (1999) cite several re...

information. These guidelines are also based on this researchers finding that self-care promotes the pediatric patients spiritual ...

interests and values considered and respected in the decision-making process" (Fly and Johnstone, 2002). This rationale is undoubt...

makes the point that EBP involves more than simply utilize research evidence; and Penz and Bassendowski emphasize this point by s...

verifies old knowledge (Wilkerson, 1998). As this suggests, the continuation of scholarly advances in the development of nursing t...

is a term that refers to "a formal way of thinking (i.e. conceptualizing) about a process/system under study" (Conceptual Framewor...

Aesthetic, the need for beauty, order and symmetry (Huitt, 2004). 7. Self-actualization is a plateau not all people reach. At this...

supply and the importance of fruit and vegetables in the patients diet. She authored over 200 books, reports and pamphlets on nurs...

nurses are part of this generation and a large majority of nurses are retiring. It has been estimated that 50 percent of the count...

quality and safety for the care they can expect to receive from nurses and midwives and other health professionals are the same" (...

individual family member are considered within this context (Friedman, Bowden and Jones 37). In analyzing the various theories th...

Sometimes the ability to perform foot self-exams for follow-up education or acute illness (Nettles, 2005, p. 44). Additionally, ...

include an understanding of how insulin functions to control glucose levels and the interaction between variables that can affect ...

patient care (Hassmiller and Cozine, 2006). Some strategies proposed by RWJF for helping to decrease the tremendous workload on nu...

are possess "awareness and intention," and can construct a sense of self-identity and meaning," which includes the ability to choo...

background of hospital RNs is a significant factor in providing quality nursing care, as this study showed that the level of educa...

illustrates how she ignored the potential for causing harm when she increased the patients drugs; only after the medication had be...

to work efficiently and effectively across cultural boundaries. This concept also encompasses not only the assumption that nurses,...

concepts dominated the field of stress research beginning in the 1950s; however, by the 1970s, there was opposition to Selyes stre...

York found that, in the past, ambulance diversions were a seasonal event. However, more recent research finds that diversional sta...