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recognition of cultural and social influences on health care outcomes. As a result, advanced practice nurses have also become int...

a specialized body of knowledge, skills and experience that enables these nurses to offer a high standard of care to critically il...

considered one of a number of high stress jobs, and stress is problematic, causing inefficiencies, high staffing turnover rates an...

the very act of following the "law" (i.e., supply and demand) of economics now has exacerbated the shortage of nurses who also are...

2003). Most international nurses coming to the US come from the Philippines, but many also come from Canada and India with addit...

up billboards offering cash incentives, while nursing schools also originated creative means of recruiting more students (Wells). ...

to the wide-ranging aspect of nursing than merely administering medicine; in fact, the myriad components that ultimately comprise ...

issue of regulatory interest when attached to direct patient care (Nursing, 2004). As few nurses with no patient responsibilities...

nurse, 2005). In addition to basic educational preparation at the RN level, oncology nursing practice also requires cancer-speci...

students. Why is there a nursing shortage? Basically, there is a nursing shortage because governments have not done what was requ...

36). Both a therapeutic and social relationship are featured in the film Good Will Hunting (1997). The protagonist in the film, ...

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

a long period, have the opportunity to build relationships with them and are able to come to know the individual patients response...

nursing care over the past decade and how do they support the argument for a continuum of educational practices for nursing profes...

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

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

risk factors that can be altered, with special attention to lowering cholesterol and blood pressure. B. Treatment of ischemia usua...

member with a meaningful recovery experience? When did you first realize that you wanted to help others? Relating personal details...

and continues to do so, over the past two decades, as it was first published in 1979 (Falk-Rafael, 2000). In formulating her theor...

is a term that refers to "a formal way of thinking (i.e. conceptualizing) about a process/system under study" (Conceptual Framewor...

interests and values considered and respected in the decision-making process" (Fly and Johnstone, 2002). This rationale is undoubt...

Sometimes the ability to perform foot self-exams for follow-up education or acute illness (Nettles, 2005, p. 44). Additionally, ...

patient care (Hassmiller and Cozine, 2006). Some strategies proposed by RWJF for helping to decrease the tremendous workload on nu...

nurses are part of this generation and a large majority of nurses are retiring. It has been estimated that 50 percent of the count...

are possess "awareness and intention," and can construct a sense of self-identity and meaning," which includes the ability to choo...

background of hospital RNs is a significant factor in providing quality nursing care, as this study showed that the level of educa...

quality and safety for the care they can expect to receive from nurses and midwives and other health professionals are the same" (...

individual family member are considered within this context (Friedman, Bowden and Jones 37). In analyzing the various theories th...

supply and the importance of fruit and vegetables in the patients diet. She authored over 200 books, reports and pamphlets on nurs...

will--in all likelihood--result in a professional negligence suit, rather than criminal charges. Suits against nurses result from ...