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have a negative impact on the quality of patient care, says Dr. Paul F. Clark, professor of labor studies and industrial relations...

many contemporary societies still reflect incredible amounts of poverty, disease and homelessness in spite of the fact that their ...

since the survey was initiated in 1977, for example, between 1992 and 1996, the number of nurses grew by 14.2 percent (Mee, 2001)....

1999). Elderly patients who are alert, and not declared incompetent, have the right to refuse treatment, which includes turning or...

Beginning in the early 1990s, managed care targeted nursing as an expenditure where hospitals could cut costs. Managed care consul...

for registered nurses by 2010 (Feeg 8). While statistics such as these have received a great deal of press, what is less well kno...

US shortage has caused many healthcare institutions to look for nurses outside their countrys borders and many nurses are leaving ...

educators in the past, are lured away from academia by better-paying positions in clinical and private practice (Mee, 2003). Furth...

considering this economic downturn, the numbers of undergraduates pursuing nursing careers began to also decline. In 1991, Canada ...

staff them (Ocala, Fla., Hospitals Tackle Nursing Shortage, 2002). The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizati...

Nursing (Webber, 2007). However, this is not a long-term solution. The long-term solution to achieving an adequate nursing force f...

In 2001, health care spending as a percentage of GDP was 14.1 percent, or $5,035 per capita (Levit, Smith, Cowan, Lazenby, Senseni...

budget restraints. Nurses leave the profession because they are "distressed by being unable to provide quality nursing care, disgr...

the new paradigm becomes the new standard. Lewin once commented, "If you want to truly understand something, try to change it" (Go...

This paper is basically about nurse leadership. A scenario was presented in which a nurse director needed to present a new annual ...

based on a research study that surveyed over 2,000 RNs who provide direct nursing care in three mid-western hospitals. This result...

to nursing practice in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), as the welfare of each high-needs baby is intrinsically tied to fami...

On the other hand, an employee was given a promotion that included a salary increase but did not include a different desk; hers wa...

whoever the client might be, that is, an individual, family, group or community. The third provision indicates that nurses are als...

A 12 page research paper that explores the topic of customer satisfaction and how it is related to both profitability and product/...

In two pages this paper discusses how nurses can deal with the stress of their jobs with a 'hardy' personality as described in thi...

and theoretical Framework: The instrument designed for use in this study drew heavily upon the survey developed by Cole, et al, wh...

all intimately connected. The function of a leader, in part, is to ensure that an organization achieves its goals by means of meth...

including Hayhurst et al. (2005) and Reineck & Furino (2005). The purpose of this study, though, is defined in relation to the re...

of the hospital nursing staff could be nurses with a bachelors degree or higher and that this can have an impact on patient outcom...

environment is highly competitive and consumers have high expectations in regards to the quality and effectiveness of the services...

This paper discusses nursing job satisfaction, and includes a definition and discussion of the factors that comprise this crucial ...

In ten pages this research paper presents a literature review on team nursing as a way of increasing patient satisfaction. Thirte...

images represent some aspect of nursing? Examination of this question shows that two of these images are particularly helpful in d...

The concept of health also has undergone change over the years. It formerly referred to absence of disease, but now it generally ...