SEARCH RESULTS

verifies old knowledge (Wilkerson, 1998). As this suggests, the continuation of scholarly advances in the development of nursing t...

makes the point that EBP involves more than simply utilize research evidence; and Penz and Bassendowski emphasize this point by s...

many of the findings of nursing research have little or no relevance to their daily practice. Im and Meleis (1999) cite several re...

Arthur Golden and then a major motion picture. In 1992, Golden traveled to Kyoto and interviewed Mineko Iwasaki, a legendary, reti...

This involves intensive, one-on-one teaching, which enables autistic children to learn the intricacies of behaviors or skills via ...

illustrates how she ignored the potential for causing harm when she increased the patients drugs; only after the medication had be...

to work efficiently and effectively across cultural boundaries. This concept also encompasses not only the assumption that nurses,...

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...

concepts dominated the field of stress research beginning in the 1950s; however, by the 1970s, there was opposition to Selyes stre...

York found that, in the past, ambulance diversions were a seasonal event. However, more recent research finds that diversional sta...

ability to empower and grow people" (Gokenbach, 2003, p. 8). Over the past decade, there have been numerous studies that have fou...

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...

Smith, et al. (2002) explain that their purpose "was to investigate the effects of therapeutic massage on selected outcomes relate...

legislation that authorizes a Nurse Licensure Compact (National Council of the State Boards of Nursing, Nurse Licensure Compact, 2...

Additionally, the model also "incorporates a life span continuum, where the individual passes from fully dependent at birth, to fu...

could be called human biological life; or(2) human personal life that includes biological life but goes beyond it to include other...

are necessary for patient survival" (Kelley, 2005, p. 2). When the blood volume in the body is too low, it activates "compensatory...

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...

over the course of several years of research into the issue. Most styles also depend on an array of variables including "organiza...

in death is a wise safeguard. In the early part of the twentieth century, rationalizations abounded in medical literature that def...

the situation in which the health care is offered, that is, a clinic, a hospital or a physicians office. "Health" refers to a st...

Rural Nurses, represented by registered nurse and practicing attorney Jacqulyn Hall, filed an amici curiae (friends of the court) ...

In the meantime, I plan to study teaching strategies and rationale, and also expand my personal travel experiences. Today as neve...

paradigms According to Parse (1987), the simultaneity paradigm of nursing offers a substantially different view worldview than th...

on the following (Nursingworld.org, 2004). * Human dignity * Commitment to the patient * Protection of the patients privacy and co...

lawyers, uncaring nurses and pedophile clergy is to cut back on scientific research--a tenuous conclusion at best. Where the art...

follow-up full medical treatment and counseling. 5. Bargain for violence-prevention provisions. 6. Make violence-prevention progra...

viewpoints that articulate their own unvoiced feelings toward their profession. For example, in a discussion in an online nursin...