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

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

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...

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...

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 ...

point that relatively few paid attention to it at all. In many respects, the same has occurred in the discussion of anythin...

routine activities necessary to their own care. The purpose is that with a nurses direction, encouragement and initial supervisio...

within the academic curriculum (Thomson, 2003). Therefore, this one are of research demonstrates how nursing research impacts many...

The funding agency chosen for this program is the Childrens Aid Society, a nonprofit organization that has been dedicated to impro...

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 ...

and consumable supplies. Capital expense and information technology (IT) items are included, but the nurse manager has no direct ...

not unusual given that there is a common perception that the higher a persons educational attainment the greater level of employme...

only the teaching of adult learners, but also the teaching of those who will be teaching them. Learning Theory It has been ...

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

and patient. Orems theory is central to much of nursing philosophy and methodology. This theory is one of three theories...

parameters of his perspective and goals, and, specifically, refers to the unique orientation of nursing. "Nurses encounter patient...

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

had to have gone through surgery (orthopedic, gynecological, urological, vascular) of at least twenty minutes in duration. They ha...

deaths each year are related to medications" (Meadows, 2003). The actual number is estimated to be much higher because these kinds...

adaptation has a process in which individuals respond positively to environmental changes and described three types of stimuli: fo...

life needs to change in response to the patients health care needs, then the nurse needs to be sensitive to that factor as well. ...