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Information on a Quantitative Research Article

In addition to these central variables, the authors also considered other potential factors influencing study outcomes, including ...

Family Systems/The Postpartum Mother

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

Evolution of Personal Philosophy of Nursing

the "inability to determine the meaning of illness-related events" (McCormick, 2002, p. 127). Furthermore, Chinn and Kramer (1999)...

Economics and Nursing

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

Patients’ Bill of Rights

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

Nursing and Self-Care

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

Nursing Personal Leadership Development Plan

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

School Nursing and Disaster Planning

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

Obesity Community Health Intervention

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

Wellness & Nutrition for Healthy Aging

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

Mandatory Nurse-to-Patient Ratios

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

Need for Cultural Competent Care

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

Comparison of Two longitudinal Research Studies

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

Nurses' Use of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication

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

Technlogy in Nursing

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

Mentoring a Student Nurse

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

Review of "Outcomes of Therapeutic Massage for Hospitalized Cancer Patients"

Smith, et al. (2002) explain that their purpose "was to investigate the effects of therapeutic massage on selected outcomes relate...

The Roper, Logan and Tierney Model of Nursing

Additionally, the model also "incorporates a life span continuum, where the individual passes from fully dependent at birth, to fu...

Nursing Profession and Men

degree (CBS News). Where 4.1 percent of new female nurses leave the profession after four years, 7.5 percent of new male nurses lo...

Retention in Nursing and the Role of a Nursing Manager

support for the concept that effective leadership style is directly related to nursing job satisfaction (Kleinman, 2004a). These s...

Profession of Nursing

their profession to be their career and it definitely requires career-long continuous professional development. Why then, does a...

An Article on Childbirth and Nursing Presence Reviewed

for the birth" (MacKinnon, McIntyre and Quance, 2005, p. 29). As this suggests, intrapartum nurses spend the most time with labor...

Preventing Medication Error Change Project

for the precise coding of medication and, thereby, helps nurses avoid the common errors listed above (Woods and Doan-Johnson, 2002...

Nurse's Knowledge of Breast Cancer Screening

out care. Though there is a need for health care providers as a whole to have a greater awareness of the diagnostic process for b...

The Nurse Educator, Postprostatectomy Patients and Informative Websites

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

Florence Nightingale

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

Health Care: Challenges in Caring for a Diverse Population, and Dealing with Colleagues of Different Ages

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

Impact of Diabetes Mellitus

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

Safe Nursing and Patient Care Act

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

Osteoporosis In Elderly Women

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