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(2003) gives the example of an nurse assigned to a busy intensive care unit (ICU) began experiencing clear signs of traumatic stre...

expectancy is increasing and more people are surviving serious illness and living longer with chronic illness. At the same time, t...

the nurse is uncertain of which tasks are appropriate to delegation, as well as the skill level of UAPs, their reluctance becomes ...

endeavor. Nursing in any context requires a detailed knowledge of individual patients. Specifically, a forensic nurse will have a...

"interactive, systems, and developmental" approaches (Tourville and Ingalls 21). The systems model of nursing perceives the meta...

information. These guidelines are also based on this researchers finding that self-care promotes the pediatric patients spiritual ...

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

with their illness decreases and their partners ability to help them with the process is impeded as well. Decreased communication...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

perceived self-efficacy (Capik, 1998). JJ explained how Penders theory guides her priorities in establishing educational goals, ...

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...

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

nurse working on a medical unit at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center. According to Kodet, the only thing ...

(BNE:NPA, 2006). To investigate for heart disease was clearly indicated by physicians orders and, furthermore, Eddie failed to not...

For example, in regards to nurse practitioners from other state, the law states, "The Board (meaning the Board of Nursing) may iss...

of diabetes care, including blood/glucose monitoring, food intake monitoring, exercise monitoring, and insulin administration. Be...

In eleven pages this paper discusses legal issues of which nurses should be aware, lawsuit avoidance, and the importance of malpra...

Decision-making, critical thinking and advocacy are all important in the modern hospital experience. This paper examines a patient...

In fifteen pages this paper discusses the health care setting in an examination of the advanced practice nurse or nurse practition...

in this case for a variety of reasons (Chaguturu and Vallabhaneni, 2005). First of all, despite any financial incentives, it has b...

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