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and the patient are often unproductive (Roberson and Kelly, 1996; Hanna, 1997). Understanding the basis for this cultural percept...

as sadness. My Dad quickly smiled and patted me on the back, but in my heart I knew that my decision would forever change the cou...

Furthermore, if the ulcers end up in hospitalization, the nursing home is responsible for those costs as well. Even if the patient...

to produce better outcomes for patients and improve the conduct and performance of nurses and other health care employees on a dai...

biochemistry. I recognized the wonder of chemistry, but what I failed to recognize at the time was the solid practice it gave me ...

a much greater burden of responsibility and knowledge than was previously the case. Even nurses in highly specialised fields are o...

In four pages a hypothetical situation is considered in which a conflict commences in an ICU between a healthcare assistant and a ...

to three days more than 20 years ago. We ruefully joke that some managed care plans only allow new mothers to be hospitalized on ...

Although she lived, she suffered extensive brain damage, leaving her in what is described as a "persistent vegetative state" (Jero...

from disease to non-disease to health. She argues that "This synthesized view incorporates disease as meaningful aspect of health...

model of nursing is predicated upon the call for an interdisciplinary approach in the creation and establishment of appropriate an...

that nurse is guilty of doing something unethical. Nurses must impose a high standard of care in the office, hospital or home sett...

using this paper properly! I. INTRODUCTION Janet (an RN) and Carol (her manager) had been working together in the same Can...

of anxiety due to the diagnosis. She is single but hoped to one day get married and have children. The sudden onset of symptoms an...

exist for generations. Though Nightingale promoted a professional demeanor, nursing was not something that most well-bred women w...

(p. 1617). This suggests that the subject for this study is so under-researched that there are no previous studies to cite, which ...

She has promoted her theory of human caring throughout the world from various positions including lecturer at several universities...

There are many settings in which nursing can occur within this framework. The most obvious is...

military personnel and other non-combatants. While McConnell was seeing her charges safely to Japan, General Douglas MacArthur was...

states, "The nurse promotes, advocates for, and strives to protect the health, safety and rights of the patient" (Code of Ethics f...

improve it, then nursing can truly be an invaluable profession to choose. This leads us to the reality of helping people. Perha...

caused by the illnesses the may then have a negative physiological backlash on the patient. For other condition it may be the ro...

the elderly. The Nurse Practitioner announced in its July 2000 issue that reports of the AMAs petition had been received as...

and statistics. This approach works well for in physics and math, but less well when applied to people. Moloney (2002) offers thre...

a little less than a third of them were under the age of 40 (Meadows, 2002, p. 46). This offered conclusive proof that number of ...

experience, particularly that immigrant experience as it occurs within the modern medical environment, revolves around cultural un...

objective in conducting their study was to "describe the experience of men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer and their wives,...

is wheelchair bound, but nevertheless cooks for herself and shops for herself in a nearby grocery store, using her motorized wheel...

is understandable given that MRSA is one of the primary threats in terms of diseases encountered in ICUs in the US. Over fifty pe...

between states and federal regulation. The purpose here is to determine whether the USAF advanced nurse practitioners are "functi...