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many of the findings of nursing research have little or no relevance to their daily practice. Im and Meleis (1999) cite several re...

information. These guidelines are also based on this researchers finding that self-care promotes the pediatric patients spiritual ...

with their illness decreases and their partners ability to help them with the process is impeded as well. Decreased communication...

This involves intensive, one-on-one teaching, which enables autistic children to learn the intricacies of behaviors or skills via ...

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

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

their web site with which this nursing organization is involved. For instance, the AACN promotes a specific cardiovascular health ...

result that nursing pays well enough to support a family now, which is in great contrast to conditions in the distant past. The p...

required qualified, competent staff. This resulted in the establishment of training schools for nurses (Formal training, 2005). Un...

drugs and to administer those drugs in a manner that is beneficial to our patients as well as being put into a positions where we ...

for APNs. One such path is to be a nurse anesthetist, who is a licensed APN who is considered to be using personal professional ju...

I replied that I could develop a program with her supervision, that nurses were more interested in furthering their training than ...

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...

in this case for a variety of reasons (Chaguturu and Vallabhaneni, 2005). First of all, despite any financial incentives, it has b...

of diabetes care, including blood/glucose monitoring, food intake monitoring, exercise monitoring, and insulin administration. Be...

task forces, committees, and organizational projects," while also serving as "resources to other nurses to facilitate advancing sk...

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

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

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

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

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

Aesthetic, the need for beauty, order and symmetry (Huitt, 2004). 7. Self-actualization is a plateau not all people reach. At this...

backstabbing, failure to respect privacy and broken confidences" (Stanley, et al, 2007, p. 1248). Ferrell notes the importance of ...

This essay gives an overview of why mandatory overtime for nursing staff is a significant issue that as the potential to harm pati...

and respond to patient authentically as individuals in the here-and-now moment may be the best way to prepare safe and effective c...

(Nellis and Parker, 2000). Elasticity Elasticity of a good is the measure that assess the impact that a change in price will have...

This paper discusses the problem of the nursing shortage and its impact on nursing recruitment and retention. Six pages in length,...

This paper pertains to two middle range nursing theories, Kolcaba's comfort theory and nursing intellectual capital theory, and th...