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higher salary would increase job satisfaction, the ability to raise nurses salaries in light of successful budget performance woul...

a drivable distance. This rural population currently exceeds 35 million in the country (America Telemedicine Association, 2007). ...

their infants, and this factor is associated with increased morbidity and mortality, as well as significant financial expenditures...

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...

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

was perceived as merely the "handmaiden" of medicine, that is, a service that was there to facilitate the practice of the physicia...

rather than requiring patient transfer to ICU. This plan is consistent with the principles of planned change in that it focuses o...

have had ethical reservations about taking a patient off of life support, but she did not add to Lynns burden by interfering with ...

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 ...

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 ...

also as a result of the environment in which they are cared for, where smoking is banned. Teaching patients may be seen as a funct...

in African American communities in though it has level off and is falling in other US populations (Dyer, 2003). Adolescents are am...

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

the importance of taking assessment from a number of different, relevant perspectives. For example, mentors who are conscious that...

An effective and valuable nurse is one who has sound technical knowledge and experience in applying it, but who also is a superlat...

includes strategies that are designed to make the individual feel better, such as "exercise, spirituality, support groups and humo...

many people have these factors in common within their personal value sets, but I believe that the nurse possesses them in specific...

proposed method of resolution is to design, develop and evaluate a clinical, evidence-based "diabetic education program to increas...