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In seven pages this paper presents a case scenario featuring a nursing care situation and possible change of employment environmen...

underlying the formulation of the nurse-patient relationship. According to Mallik (1998) a great deal of the literature on this to...

York University School of Nursing and became an advocate of the practice through her teaching of therapeutic touch techniques and ...

best standards of care (Whittemore, et al, 2002). The goal of nursing education in regards to diabetes treatment is to aid the ind...

prevention. Today, researchers are not disregarding the genetic component, but see this component as working in conjunction with o...

Registered Nurse. The service is meant to be used as a first step for residents in regards to assessment of their symptoms and if ...

Working for the well-staffed working environment in itself is no small task, given the fact of the ongoing nursing shortage. The ...

on an evidenced based evidence based practice and the development of increased individual accountability in the area of clinical g...

the disease as well as around the prevention of the spread of the causative organism to other individuals that come into contact w...

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...

the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...

her, per se, but rather with her expectations of Madeline, which are not age appropriate. The scenario says that Madeline knows be...

and safety" (ANA, 2005). After all, if a nurse does not take steps to preserve her or his own safety, the nurse cannot adequately ...

The ANCI Competency Unit 4 demands that nurses accept accountability and responsibility for their actions in nursing. To do so we...

greater demand on health care services as more of them cross that line from employed to retired. Projections are just that,...

the basic paradigms of nursing professional theory are considered within a social context. For example, health is defined as a "dy...

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

learned long ago the value of yet another Deming (1986) exhortation, that of continuous improvement. By definition, the concept i...

have had ethical reservations about taking a patient off of life support, but she did not add to Lynns burden by interfering with ...

proposed method of resolution is to design, develop and evaluate a clinical, evidence-based "diabetic education program to increas...

preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...

There are different studies that have made a partial examination of the developmental models of clinical mentorship and supervisio...

balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...

train sufficient numbers of new nurses. Turnover is high among those who remain in the profession, and those so dissatisfied - an...

(1999), research shows that the level of education reached by an RN contributes to a sense of professional autonomy and those nurs...

lethal drug is given with the intent to bring about death, thus ending suffering" (28). Of course, there is a difference between ...

to physicians. Increasingly, "evidence-based guidelines are becoming codes of medical practice" (Healy, 2005; p. 54). Superficia...

over their blood glucose levels; and (3) encouraging continuous improvement in nursing knowledge and patient education. The progr...

a nurses role as a change agent in data base management. Fonville, Killian, and Tranbarger (1998) note that successful nurses of ...