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Conroy and Nottoli (1999) report the case of Henry, an irascible octogenarian who easily was the most difficult patient in the ski...

reveal a steady growth in the number of nurses joining unions due to discontent" (Blankenheim 2001, p. 13). They are doing so to l...

already has been diagnosed as having some form of heart disease. In that sense, primary prevention is not possible. The goals of...

risk factor, but is of less consequence among those diabetics who pay close attention to their blood sugar levels, test often and ...

Bell (2000) reports that when an Australian hospital instituted shared governance, nurse managers responded "by developing a teamw...

cross to bear and they would be shamed to bring it to someone else. The healthcare worker must not attempt to alter the patients r...

(called IgE) (ONeill, 1990). This then sticks to other cells such as the mast cells or the basophils, this is a chain reaction as ...

MEDMARX is thought to be the most comprehensive reporting of medication error information in the nation (Morantz & Torrey, 2003). ...

objective in conducting their study was to "describe the experience of men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer and their wives,...

At the heart of nursing is the nurse-patient relationship, which provides the foundation for nursing care (Patusky, 2003). This r...

states, "The nurse promotes, advocates for, and strives to protect the health, safety and rights of the patient" (Code of Ethics f...

improve it, then nursing can truly be an invaluable profession to choose. This leads us to the reality of helping people. Perha...

military personnel and other non-combatants. While McConnell was seeing her charges safely to Japan, General Douglas MacArthur was...

a little less than a third of them were under the age of 40 (Meadows, 2002, p. 46). This offered conclusive proof that number of ...

and statistics. This approach works well for in physics and math, but less well when applied to people. Moloney (2002) offers thre...

the elderly. The Nurse Practitioner announced in its July 2000 issue that reports of the AMAs petition had been received as...

are often called upon to provide comfort where there seems to be none, patience in the face of adversity, and grace under fire. Th...

should all be considered (OConnor and Walker, 2003). Traditionally, societys influence on educational planning has meant that the...

and their insurers by operating under two distinct fee schedules. Medicare requires that care providers fees be "normal and custo...

is understandable given that MRSA is one of the primary threats in terms of diseases encountered in ICUs in the US. Over fifty pe...

between states and federal regulation. The purpose here is to determine whether the USAF advanced nurse practitioners are "functi...

to produce better outcomes for patients and improve the conduct and performance of nurses and other health care employees on a dai...

the educational setting, and considers the role of school nurses. At a time when an increasing number of students are receiving s...

in terms of the diagnosis and the aggregate. Discussion of Nursing Diagnosis The nursing diagnosis for this study, kno...

etiology of the disease is not well understood, but substantive research suggests that individuals who suffer from ALS have mutati...

my divorce are better understood in relation the traditional concept of a nuclear family. The term "nuclear family" brings to min...

interactions with their patients and with each other have. Kurt Lewins change theory holds that change is incremental. It occurs...

In twelve pages this paper presents the argument that nursing should be regarded not as a science but as an art. Ten sources are ...

particular certified nurse-midwives-- continues to increase, these impediments linger to a certain extent, and may continue to aff...

legal errors (Fackelmann, 2002). Furthermore, the AMA study demonstrated that there is a direct statistical connection between th...