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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

that the doctrine of informed consent is "hopelessly flawed--or at least misguided," as it is often not possible to truly inform ...

Sharon Bernier, RN, PhD and President of the National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing, points out that Aikens study also...

Working for the well-staffed working environment in itself is no small task, given the fact of the ongoing nursing shortage. The ...

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

and safety" (ANA, 2005). After all, if a nurse does not take steps to preserve her or his own safety, the nurse cannot adequately ...

The ANCI Competency Unit 4 demands that nurses accept accountability and responsibility for their actions in nursing. To do so we...

greater demand on health care services as more of them cross that line from employed to retired. Projections are just that,...

the basic paradigms of nursing professional theory are considered within a social context. For example, health is defined as a "dy...

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

a profession, nursing theory has responded to meet the needs of nurses. For example, from the mid-1970s through the 1980s, the foc...

a discussion and review of literature that focuses on hypertension (HTN) among minority ethnic groups, with a particular emphasis ...

nurses. These were all key people in leading the change (Stetler et al., 2009). These same people were not identified in the begin...

the nursing paradigm of "Person" as it is perceived as an adaptive system, and "Environment" as it pertain to providing the stimul...

but that is not true. They set goals that are challenging but achievable. The goals influence their effort and ability (Accel-Trea...

and Kramer (2008) to describe the ability of nurses to be cognizant of and reflect upon the wide variety of cultural, social and p...

also possess knowledge concerning a particular family as a whole, including the intricacies of its family system, the position of ...

This research paper pertains to the standards published by the Joint Commission on the issue of bullying in the hospital workplace...

This paper is divided into related sections and includes a case scenario to which Leininger's transcultural nursing theory is appl...

for an expert mentor, which are "being an authority in the field, an educator, a counselor, a sponsor, and having personal commitm...

1930s that focused on the nature of leadership. This body of research identified three principal styles of leadership, which are a...

County Community College (DCCC) located near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, serves the educational needs of 28,000 students annually ...

risen in the US population, there has been corresponding increase in the incidence of diabetes mellitus, which is associated with ...