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Although she lived, she suffered extensive brain damage, leaving her in what is described as a "persistent vegetative state" (Jero...

from disease to non-disease to health. She argues that "This synthesized view incorporates disease as meaningful aspect of health...

model of nursing is predicated upon the call for an interdisciplinary approach in the creation and establishment of appropriate an...

Acquiescing to the constraints imposed by organizational and professional structure does not mean that the nurse has no alternativ...

leadership of the nursing department with another individual at the VP level. Maras has full leadership of the department o...

to believe that his strategy for paying the hospitals bill for treatment to be a sound one. He had sued the local trolley line (a...

be on the alert for any changes in blood pressure, urinary tract, and body temperature (Jackson, 2000). Muscles must be exercised ...

still exists as to the necessity and long-term benefits of circumcision. Virtually all agree that if circumcision is to be done, ...

can facilitate a different type of learning and examination, peer groups may allow an exploration with fewer confines groups with ...

synopsis will be provided for each of these articles and one article will selected for a more detailed discussion of how its findi...

the abuse shed suffered - child molestation at the hands of a brutal stepfather, witnessing equally-brutal bestiality (they lived ...

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...

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

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,...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...