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many of the findings of nursing research have little or no relevance to their daily practice. Im and Meleis (1999) cite several re...
ability to empower and grow people" (Gokenbach, 2003, p. 8). Over the past decade, there have been numerous studies that have fou...
with their illness decreases and their partners ability to help them with the process is impeded as well. Decreased communication...
concepts dominated the field of stress research beginning in the 1950s; however, by the 1970s, there was opposition to Selyes stre...
secretary, should leave the ward when there were fewer than three children on the unit and work a second adult unit as well. He wa...
York found that, in the past, ambulance diversions were a seasonal event. However, more recent research finds that diversional sta...
illustrates how she ignored the potential for causing harm when she increased the patients drugs; only after the medication had be...
nurses can become political active, as these organizations frequently play an active role in establishing public policy by publica...
directly with families in their home, aiding them with complex care situations (Denham, 2003). How has the family changed? In 20...
the problem of teaching students with diverse backgrounds and abilities and refer to the 1997 report of the National Committee of ...
nurse job satisfaction and the development and implementation of a patient care delivery model at New Hampshire Hospital?" (Allen...
This involves intensive, one-on-one teaching, which enables autistic children to learn the intricacies of behaviors or skills via ...
Smith, et al. (2002) explain that their purpose "was to investigate the effects of therapeutic massage on selected outcomes relate...
it comes to orders, medications, tests, transfers and so on. Another problem for both physicians and nurses is identifying all p...
of the patient experience" (Engebretson 20). The background provided by a large, close-knit family means that, from childhood, I h...
as well as those studies that have suggested broadening students exposure to families and children with special needs. This discus...
much broader in its application. It is this broadness that allows nurses to reach across religious lines and distinctions. In a su...
in nursing educators aged 36 to 45 (Lewallen, et al, 2003). To complicate matters further, recent statistics show that nurses wh...
all aspects of nursing. While the prime relationship in nursing is the one between the nurse and patient, relationships between nu...
are necessary for patient survival" (Kelley, 2005, p. 2). When the blood volume in the body is too low, it activates "compensatory...
the nursing theorists that have come after her (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003). The interactive model focuses on the significant of ...
partners in the healthcare process. Through training and education, nurses learn to make decisions on multiple issues of patient c...
a mentor and/or a preceptor. Mentoring is the "process through which a relationship is established between an experienced indivi...
Additionally, the model also "incorporates a life span continuum, where the individual passes from fully dependent at birth, to fu...
in death is a wise safeguard. In the early part of the twentieth century, rationalizations abounded in medical literature that def...
will--in all likelihood--result in a professional negligence suit, rather than criminal charges. Suits against nurses result from ...
NAON recognizes that learning and developing professional is a life-long processes and it helps orthopedic nurses achieve the goal...
the situation in which the health care is offered, that is, a clinic, a hospital or a physicians office. "Health" refers to a st...
over the course of several years of research into the issue. Most styles also depend on an array of variables including "organiza...
2005, p.165). In obese children, the number of fat cells present in the body can be as much as three times higher than in normal w...