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US shortage has caused many healthcare institutions to look for nurses outside their countrys borders and many nurses are leaving ...

of the greatest areas of concern. Finding sufficient time for school, as well as all other activities required of the student, was...

Leaders create the future rather than simply become its victims (Kerfoot, 1998). They are generally thinking several months ahead,...

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

is simply to require that their nursing staff make up for understaffing by working mandatory overtime on a more or less permanent ...

when he cannot feel a pulse. A new nurse, a first year graduate, Sally enters the room, sees Long and runs out. She encounters Nur...

advocates, providing medical treatments prescribed by physicians, and keeping accurate records of changes in patient status (Nurse...

of a unified health care organization that included both Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH...

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

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

is defined as the needs of that individual to meet "Universal self-care requisites associated with life processes and maintenance ...

In ten pages this research paper presents a literature review on team nursing as a way of increasing patient satisfaction. Thirte...

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

parents of children with cancer regarding the needs of siblings and on the support that was offered by hospital staff. The results...

often a factor in nurse/doctor communication. Nurses can bring power to nurse/doctor interchange by harnessing the power of lang...

all areas of professional nursing. Provisions 1 through 3 address the principal obligations of nursing, which are to the patient/c...

education for nurses in the US followed the model established by modern nursings founder Florence Nightingale (Fitzpatrick 63). Th...

1999). Elderly patients who are alert, and not declared incompetent, have the right to refuse treatment, which includes turning or...

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

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

regards to lung function. If patients cannot breath on their own, RTs are trained on how to intubate patients and connect them to ...

the needs of the dying and her work indicates that there are times when the most meaningful communication that a nurse can offer i...

individuals personal integrity, which is defined as a "sense of worth which can be conserved through consideration of cultural, et...

showing that they graduated from a nursing education program approved by the Georgia Board of Nursing or from a nursing education ...

reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...

that the doctrine of informed consent is "hopelessly flawed--or at least misguided," as it is often not possible to truly inform ...

Sharon Bernier, RN, PhD and President of the National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing, points out that Aikens study also...

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

considering this economic downturn, the numbers of undergraduates pursuing nursing careers began to also decline. In 1991, Canada ...

This paper offers an annotated bibliography that discusses articles on the integration of nursing theory into research studies. Fi...