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stress and exhaustion sets in (1992). Nurse managers are subject to continual stress as many of their tasks involve life an...

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

This involves intensive, one-on-one teaching, which enables autistic children to learn the intricacies of behaviors or skills via ...

ability to empower and grow people" (Gokenbach, 2003, p. 8). Over the past decade, there have been numerous studies that have fou...

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

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

with their illness decreases and their partners ability to help them with the process is impeded as well. Decreased communication...

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

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

in a mature company, if indeed such opportunities arise in those large companies. With the startup company, I had opportunity to ...

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

secretary, should leave the ward when there were fewer than three children on the unit and work a second adult unit as well. He wa...

potential for long term physiological complications as well as long-term emotional impacts. Not only does the type of care needed...

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

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

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

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

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

of character and fitness needed to assure...the integrity and he competence of services performed for clients... (pp. 195-196). ...

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

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...

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

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

task forces, committees, and organizational projects," while also serving as "resources to other nurses to facilitate advancing sk...

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...

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

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

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