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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 ...

In three pages this research paper discusses how humor can be a modality that assists nurses in patient care as well as self care....

not money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely woul...

"significant anxiety, particularly before they discover the most effective symptom management" (Moloney, et al, 2001, p. 19). In o...

their own condition. Judkins and Ingram (2002) designed a self-paced learning module in order to determine whether knowledge relat...

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

on diabetes into categories and addresses these topics on separate web pages, as does the first site. The homepage explains that t...

In five pages this research paper takes a nursing perspecitve regarding the elderly's physical changes and increased dependence th...

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...

for the precise coding of medication in order to avoid the errors listed above (Woods and Doan-Johnson, 2002). Cohen, Robinson and...

is a very important consideration in nursing. Indeed, some four thousand of so documents were published annually about pain in th...

or chronic illness; however, nurse practitioners also have additional intensive education that involves risk reduction and prevent...

runs $127 on average (Cummings, 2002). The goal of the ALF is to help senior citizens maintain as much independence as possible wi...

the risk of medical errors, such as dispensing the wrong medication or the wrong dose (Nursing overtime, 2004). The study, which w...

1999). Lee and his family owned a small business and had no health or medical insurance. The family was urged to begin the process...

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

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

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

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...