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profession is very rewarding, if at times very difficult and even heartbreaking. This paper describes the Good Samaritan College o...

nursing quality of care" (Hart, et al, 2006, p. 256). These indicators specifically indicate that complications, such as pressure ...

Advances in technology have changed everything from how patients are diagnosed to acute care to managing chronic illnesses. Techno...

from those of education- focused institutions, when the institution in question is a nursing school, there are similarities, as we...

nurses regarding physical touch, found that these study participants used touch as a therapeutic form of nonverbal communication, ...

the American healthcare system, the debate concerning whether or not states should implement mandated nurse-to-patient ratios rema...

as relating information to patients families. Pugh relates that just thinking about this task made her anxious; however, the staff...

quite frequently, they are seldom defined specifically, yet both terms hold significant importance in terms of their relevance to ...

ensure that any data given is not capable of identifying any of the respondents, although this is unlikely, there is also the way ...

disciplined and well-organized care. On returning to England, she visited the Institute of Protestant Deaconesses at Kaiserwerth, ...

due to the fact that these medications lack the flexibility to provide fast hyperglycemic control (Seelandt, 2007). A diagnosis ...

to proper interaction with culturally diverse patients: "These standards provide comprehensive definitions of culture, competence,...

Among the challenges facing the integration of EBP into nursing behaviors is the idea that staff, which is clinically competent, a...

of the patients in a single unit will be assigned to one RN; the other half will be assigned to another. Another will be availabl...

if they are simple and straightforward. These patient data records will be replaced weekly, and each will contain a weeks worth o...

or understanding when the staff or the doctors have to move on to the next client. Many patients complain that their healthcare pr...

Today, the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that it is no longer only added stress and long hours for those...

techniques or theories as they pertain to the medical world, and it is as if the prison setting is the last place where these tech...

the realization of the "dehumanizing" of patients that led to them being referred to as "Bed x," "Case x" or some other nameless, ...

2002 and allowed for a National Nurse Service Corps program to provide funding for tuition, expenses and a stipend to those nursin...

at the moment of unconcealedness. She wanted a poet to describe nurses work: not what was visible, such as the emptying of a bedp...

as a facilitator of human resources, but also encompasses consideration of financial resources. These two roles were selected as m...

care home agencies also offer data on each service that is provided by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and acco...

during an era that rationalized social inequalities. In regards to Environment, Nightingale was changed the course of nursing an...

grueling exam Id have to pass to earn my CCRN," she bought the necessary study materials, sent in an applications and "hit the boo...

"study and report to Congress on standards for the maximum number of hours that a nurse may work without compromising the safety o...

in harmony and when they dont, osteoporosis is the result (Kantrowitz, 2007). Bone mineral density is generally measured as a T-s...

beliefs and worldview of the nurse. Salladay (2006) in her review of A Christian Vision of Nursing Practice by Mary M. Doornbos,...

time to actively conduct a research study, lack of time to read current research, nurses do not have time to read much of the rese...

Dr. McCullough is "Director of the Sexual Health and Male Fertility and Microsurgery Programs at New York University School of Med...