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imply, a standardized nursing language provides a "uniform nomenclature for the diagnosis, intervention, and evaluation components...

the question of what effect an aging nursing work force has on American healthcare in general. First and foremost, the aging of ...

quality and care" of health services that offered to rural areas throughout the US (Clinton, 2007). In addition to providing fun...

30 months, as this is when between 13 and 28 percent of senior nurses are due to retire (Sibbald, 2003). Currently, close to a thi...

vital to national security (Pike 1). The 9/11 Commission even pinpointed several failure of communication that occurred within th...

pilot study was performed first, in which the research tested the methodology. This also involved developing an interview schedule...

socially isolating, as outside opinion is discounted. The team adopts a "defensive posture," which is evidenced by "derogatory, de...

generations. Though Nightingale promoted a professional demeanor, nursing was not something that most well-bred women would even ...

Nightingale as power-crazed and iron-willed. Salvage (2001) tends to believe that these criticisms of Nightingale reflect lingerin...

This nurse that leaving the acute care facility had to do with "When youre constantly short-staffed and feel your managers arent s...

Kanters position that the situational aspects of a working environment have the ability to influence worker attitudes and behavior...

But, it also refers to the fact that nurses "shape and transform the environment" as well as offer care within the context of an e...

study also examined the availability of information resources available to the RN respondents (both at work and at home). Their fi...

(Domrose, 2001). However, current trends have developed that have greatly expanded the scope of med-surg nursing, which includes a...

students values : This calls for personal reflection. A question that the student can ask herself/himself is how he or she might h...

2001). Toms condition remained so precarious that personal care for him had to be done very tentatively. For example, brushing his...

less people living in rural communities and the "more remote geographical regions" of Australia than in urban locales (Bushy 104)....

situation. As a provider of care, it is the role of the community health nurse to address the needs of Centerville adolescents i...

Empirical research ahs consistently reported that when communication between the two professions is good, which includes doctors ...

are RNs who are "prepared, through advanced education and clinical training, to provide preventive and acute health-care services"...

age. Therefore, the patient population is increasing. This factor is also influenced by the fact that that the huge lump in the Am...

numbers of young students came to believe that perhaps nursing would provide an outlet for caring natures as well as support a fam...

Statement, 2006). It is also a goal of HHC to "join with other health workers and with communities in a partnership" (Mission Sta...

and nurses need to be and has generated capacity and energy within that body of nursing to reach that vision" (Ralko 6). A princip...

those under stress or who are unhappy with their lives. For this reason there has been a higher use in poorer social classes where...

The concept of health also has undergone change over the years. It formerly referred to absence of disease, but now it generally ...

and Robinson, 2003). Another element complicating the problem is the fact that in the early 1990s, many hospitals restructured a...

today will reach retirement age within 15 years (Mee and Robinson, 2003). At the same time, fewer people are entering nursing, as ...

images represent some aspect of nursing? Examination of this question shows that two of these images are particularly helpful in d...

self-knowledge (Simpson, 2004). While anecdotal evidence is not regarded as conclusive, the experience of individual nurses in reg...