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2003). As this suggests, a major factor in the leadership of CNSs is that they facilitate and implement educational initiatives. ...

it is appropriate, such as when a novice nurse is faced with a crisis. There are times, and stages in a career, when employees can...

power, found that where nurses report that power when is shared, there are corresponding improvements in the nursing/physician rel...

in response to cognitive and physiological challenge" (Covelli, 2007, p. 323). Diet: Both the intake of dietary sodium and potas...

patients with certain injuries and missed diagnoses of certain conditions such as appendicitis or meningitis (Dansby, Kavaler & Sp...

Literature on this topic indicates that RNs are hesitant in delegating tasks primarily because they are uncertain of the qualific...

does not address the topic of specific competencies. In other words, the most recent literature that is even remotely related to t...

is designed to ensure that "Patients have access to needed care" and that healthcare providers are "free to practice medicine with...

to current medicines, or to increase their ability to be spread into the environment" (Miller-Boyle, 2006, p. 6). Miller-Boyle wri...

now regarded as a crucial and defining component of nursing, as caring defines "nursings unique area of practice and provides dire...

any incident that requires an increased level of response beyond the routine operating procedures" (NASN, 2006). Natural disasters...

and the spirit says, "Ahhh, everything feels much better now" (Wooten, 2005, p. 510). Another factor in her relationships with c...

This PowerPoint presentation includes 9 slides plus a bibliography. The topic is the nursing shortage. Bibliography lists 1 sourc...

and how discharge instructions should cover these contingencies. "Health" has historically been used to describe the "absence of d...

p. 364). Due to the fact that eating behaviors tend to be established by early experience, it is important for healthy eating habi...

factor in childhood obesity is the fact that television viewing tends to be accompanied by the consumption of high-calorie, high s...

weaker, less developed than the other. This delayed his walking, and, even after he walked successfully at age 3, it took several ...

necessary health-related behaviors" required for meeting "ones therapeutic self-care demand (needs)" (Hurst, et al 2005, p. 11). U...

properly, nursing staff is highly aware of this lack. Research into nursing staff retention has found that the quality of housekee...

need of treatment following tours in Rwanda, the Balkans and Somalia" (Auld). Mental health problems in regards to soldiers retu...

trends. This peer-reviewed journal also offers its readership a forum for sharing their experiences with their peers, as well as l...

While only 6 percent of newborns require advanced life support in 1997, the rise in the number of neonates since that time weighin...

to reach the disease" (Colwell; 2). The author also examines aspects of surgical treatment, indicating that a particular type of s...

Johns Hopkins University and member of the IOM research team that authored the report, said that "fatigue was a major cause of mis...

nursing supervision is to provide support for nurse practitioner in a range of issues, developing their own identity as well as sk...

apply to the many diverse factors related to teen suicide attempts and completions. Three of these objectives are: 1. Reduce fire...

and specific therapy" (Newswanger and Warren, 2004, p. 2405). As patients advance through the acute phase of the illness, supporti...

of hospital environments is driving many nurses away from hospital nursing and some are leaving the profession entirely. In 2000, ...

methods with measurable outcomes, creating a link between existing research and nursing process, define the role of nurse educator...

of family such as the one cited above. In many instances hospitals adhere to the traditional definition, which means that the poli...