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is a very important consideration in nursing. Indeed, some four thousand of so documents were published annually about pain in th...

In three pages this research paper discusses how humor can be a modality that assists nurses in patient care as well as self care....

their own condition. Judkins and Ingram (2002) designed a self-paced learning module in order to determine whether knowledge relat...

10 years ago, the Christian Science Monitor, in covering an article about child care workers and the poverty-level wages they rece...

arise during this absence. Not only is this practice unacceptable professionally, but it is also problematic legalistically, as th...

learned long ago the value of yet another Deming (1986) exhortation, that of continuous improvement. By definition, the concept i...

Working for the well-staffed working environment in itself is no small task, given the fact of the ongoing nursing shortage. The ...

reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...

the disease as well as around the prevention of the spread of the causative organism to other individuals that come into contact w...

that the doctrine of informed consent is "hopelessly flawed--or at least misguided," as it is often not possible to truly inform ...

Sharon Bernier, RN, PhD and President of the National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing, points out that Aikens study also...

suggestions for future action in regards to this problem. Section A: Problem identification The Problem and its importance The G...

make a real difference. In helping professions, such leadership is desirable. The health care industry today is fraught with probl...

which resulted in 47 practices taking part and two of these having two patients. The sample : 98 (75 male) consecutive patients w...

The metaparadigms of nursing represent common concepts that are accepted throughout the profession and across international bounda...

In five pages this research paper takes a nursing perspecitve regarding the elderly's physical changes and increased dependence th...

on an evidenced based evidence based practice and the development of increased individual accountability in the area of clinical g...

they visited, and some tended to visit fairly frequently (Demling et al, 2002). Patients in general were very positive about thei...

The ANCI Competency Unit 4 demands that nurses accept accountability and responsibility for their actions in nursing. To do so we...

preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...

care model is highly useful with the elderly and those recovering from surgery or illness. Self care is not an issue that enters ...

the basic paradigms of nursing professional theory are considered within a social context. For example, health is defined as a "dy...

A nurses dedication and selflessness recall a mothers sacrifice and care (Dworkin, 2002). Furthermore, Dworking (2002) points out ...

There are different studies that have made a partial examination of the developmental models of clinical mentorship and supervisio...

balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...

was perceived as merely the "handmaiden" of medicine, that is, a service that was there to facilitate the practice of the physicia...

rather than requiring patient transfer to ICU. This plan is consistent with the principles of planned change in that it focuses o...

have had ethical reservations about taking a patient off of life support, but she did not add to Lynns burden by interfering with ...

train sufficient numbers of new nurses. Turnover is high among those who remain in the profession, and those so dissatisfied - an...

(1999), research shows that the level of education reached by an RN contributes to a sense of professional autonomy and those nurs...