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to examine whether womens social roles mediate the impact of heart surgery on their psychological well-being" (Plach and Heidrich,...

Irelands influence in reflective practice is now beginning to be felt around the country. Among other developments, the English N...

provided. A nurse who has back pain will likely reduce the care he or she could otherwise administer. When people have back or m...

least useful in nursing. The purpose here is to review the state of performance evaluation in nursing. Literature Review A...

various formal, stated ethics codes of nursing associations; nurse education programs; health care organizations; and certainly he...

in the profession. As long ago as 1990, at least one author was addressing in print the problems that hospitals were having not o...

or render physical care - she ministers to the whole person. The existence of suffering, whether physical, mental or spiritual is ...

therefore, not only an extensive history but it can be contended to be just as applicable in todays nursing practice as it was whe...

and case management. Maras shares the leadership of the nursing department with another individual at the VP level, L. McChesney....

disappear and remain at bay for a long while. The symptoms that the patient exhibits as well as physical examination are consiste...

The result is that "Suddenly there is great interest in how men and women talk to each other" (Woodard and House, 1997; p. 39), no...

absolute separation of duties and artificial formality intended to preserve hierarchy in attitude as well as fact. Physicians pro...

Washington Medical Center, Seattle, and a clinical instructor, bio behavioral nursing and health systems, at the University of Was...

positive effect in preventing future incidence of violence (Willson, McFarlane, Lemmey and Malecha, 2001), even when other referra...

even through government agencies (Visiting Nurse Association-Omaha/Southeast Nebraska, 2002). Various programs and services are sp...

in higher costs and reduced perceived quality of care. Hypotheses The purpose of the proposed study is to determine the eff...

and was told not to consider having children for fear of passing on defective genes (Sheldon, 1997; p. 34). This occurred d...

chemistry and another in biochemistry. I recognized the wonder of chemistry, but what I failed to recognize at the time was the s...

rheumatoid arthritis with the need to fortify ones mental and emotional status in order to deal with the chronic systemic illness....

with a study sample of six female diabetes nurse specialists, who worked with a multidisciplinary team offering comprehensive diab...

indwelling foley and compression boot. Her dressing is dry and intact. She was discharged with Percocet 5mg q6. Analysis and Out...

therefore more attractive to those very human individuals filling its nursing positions. A mentoring program can help support tho...

become stressed and this lowers morale. A nurse manager writes that at her hospital, her job has become overwhelming, but when dis...

the patient prior to his death. The nurse clearly felt the need to encourage the family to stay and spend as much time as possibl...

roles of nursing is direct patient care, and one of the seven essential AACN values is that of human dignity. In years past, dire...

Peplau addressed the inherent relationship between nursing and counseling, contending that nurses uphold the important responsibil...

ethics and value of this research. Ethically and scientifically responsible nurses must realize that from a deontologic perspecti...

with focus point objects for mom to keep her gaze locked on while dad coaches her breathing. Others plan to receive an epidural a...

since the survey was initiated in 1977, for example, between 1992 and 1996, the number of nurses grew by 14.2 percent (Mee, 2001)....

affect the level of health care available to individuals in sub-Saharan nations, the exodus of qualified health care providers and...