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percent of al cardiac surgery patients (Brantman and Howie, 2006). While this postoperative condition is typically well-tolerated ...

nurses are part of this generation and a large majority of nurses are retiring. It has been estimated that 50 percent of the count...

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

are possess "awareness and intention," and can construct a sense of self-identity and meaning," which includes the ability to choo...

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

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

include an understanding of how insulin functions to control glucose levels and the interaction between variables that can affect ...

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

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

for inclusion into the program. Kean (1993) notes how these groupings are based on a "host of ill-defined criteria--everything fr...

ability to empower and grow people" (Gokenbach, 2003, p. 8). Over the past decade, there have been numerous studies that have fou...

concepts dominated the field of stress research beginning in the 1950s; however, by the 1970s, there was opposition to Selyes stre...

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...

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...

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

verifies old knowledge (Wilkerson, 1998). As this suggests, the continuation of scholarly advances in the development of nursing t...

the era who states that it appeared that the U.S. government intentionally sent an expeditionary force into Mexico with the expres...

potential for long term physiological complications as well as long-term emotional impacts. Not only does the type of care needed...

the learner is involved in reflection. This essay will discuss several learning theories. The essay does not make any specific c...

York found that, in the past, ambulance diversions were a seasonal event. However, more recent research finds that diversional sta...

the study intervention. Also, as yet, Cook is not clear about the purposes, aims or goals of the study. Literature Review While ...

secretary, should leave the ward when there were fewer than three children on the unit and work a second adult unit as well. He wa...

another factor that Hornett attributes to a lack of leadership. If the principal had "modeled and encouraged helping among staff, ...

illustrates how she ignored the potential for causing harm when she increased the patients drugs; only after the medication had be...

p. 311). Specifically, this study focused on discerning how indicators of the "psychosocial work climate" affected the frequency w...

Family crisis). However, society itself is made up of smaller units, of which the family is one, and therefore structural function...

move in concentric circles of caring--from individuals, to others, to community, to (the) world" (Vance, 2003). Caring science inv...

2005, p.165). In obese children, the number of fat cells present in the body can be as much as three times higher than in normal w...