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recognized categories for APNs within this state (TBoN, 2006). The scope of practice for Tennessee APNs includes the legal abili...

Fifteen pages and 8 sources. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the information available about job opportunities fo...

reality of the profession. It needs a makeover much as it had in the 19th century in Brittan when nursing reformers struggled to h...

for my patients. Personal philosophy of nursing: Tourville and Ingalls (2003) offer a fascinating and very apt analogy to descri...

to individuals connected by a blood tie. However, to be a "family," members must "live in close contact, care for one another, an...

paternalistic approach that has been favored by physicians. Watsons theory stresses nurses should "honor anothers becoming, autono...

seek the same health goals for clients as in mainstream nursing, nurses in remote locations often cope with problems and obstacles...

potential need for treatment for impaired skin integrity due to immobility. Therefore, the nurse will begin precautions prior to a...

considered one of a number of high stress jobs, and stress is problematic, causing inefficiencies, high staffing turnover rates an...

It is well known that there is a significant shortage of registered nurses that will continue to grow. There is a difference of op...

expectancy is increasing and more people are surviving serious illness and living longer with chronic illness. At the same time, t...

homes. Rather, it is a high-quality facility dedicated to providing the best of care to its residents. Staff members are employe...

imply, a standardized nursing language provides a "uniform nomenclature for the diagnosis, intervention, and evaluation components...

quality and care" of health services that offered to rural areas throughout the US (Clinton, 2007). In addition to providing fun...

generations. Though Nightingale promoted a professional demeanor, nursing was not something that most well-bred women would even ...

pilot study was performed first, in which the research tested the methodology. This also involved developing an interview schedule...

graduate nursing hires (Truman, 2004, p. 45). The novice nurses participate in six hours of classroom instruction, plus thirty hou...

records and kept him and his family informed about his progress to date and what he could expect along the path to recovery. Nurs...

Statement, 2006). It is also a goal of HHC to "join with other health workers and with communities in a partnership" (Mission Sta...

study also examined the availability of information resources available to the RN respondents (both at work and at home). Their fi...

we had a helper who came in during the day and a nurse at night. Both of them were kind, experienced and very caring, and I could ...

But, it also refers to the fact that nurses "shape and transform the environment" as well as offer care within the context of an e...

Nightingale as power-crazed and iron-willed. Salvage (2001) tends to believe that these criticisms of Nightingale reflect lingerin...

This nurse that leaving the acute care facility had to do with "When youre constantly short-staffed and feel your managers arent s...

2001). Toms condition remained so precarious that personal care for him had to be done very tentatively. For example, brushing his...

students values : This calls for personal reflection. A question that the student can ask herself/himself is how he or she might h...

situation. As a provider of care, it is the role of the community health nurse to address the needs of Centerville adolescents i...

be vulnerable to abuse or neglect for a variety of reasons and in a variety of situations, which range from home care to care in r...

Empirical research ahs consistently reported that when communication between the two professions is good, which includes doctors ...

those under stress or who are unhappy with their lives. For this reason there has been a higher use in poorer social classes where...