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particular, resilience is also crucial because each instance is completely unique and may require a different response. In other ...

nursing is based significantly more within the psychological components of the patient/caregiver relationship than most people rea...

of the nurses and the nurse population ratio is considered higher than most in the region (MoH, 2002). Recent advances in nursing ...

Although she lived, she suffered extensive brain damage, leaving her in what is described as a "persistent vegetative state" (Jero...

from disease to non-disease to health. She argues that "This synthesized view incorporates disease as meaningful aspect of health...

causing in increase in health services. Furthermore, the US workforce of Registered Nurses (RNs) are aging as well. The ironic fac...

the inclination is to treat the dying patient with as little emotion as possible, so as not to suffer emotionally as well, many nu...

From this perspective, individuals can be viewed as open systems, in which energy is transformed within the body, gaining or losin...

respond to stress differently than do others. Current medical theory suggests that individuals who evidence a more exaggerated re...

in her favorite chair alone with her memories is something that those remaining behind will never know. Chosen Issue: Reminiscenc...

unethical, or illegal practice of any person" (Erlen 67). But while it is a nurses duty to be a patient advocate, Beth should real...

in the 19th and early 20th century, the fact is even more remarkable. "Well and Strong and Young" Updike writes that in 1854 Bar...

when Coco Chanel made the look desirable. Since that time, legions of youth and adults have sought to possess the "perfect" tan, ...

in higher costs and reduced perceived quality of care. Hypotheses The purpose of the proposed study is to determine the eff...

a mammal really but an animal that can nurture its young with its own milk? The author begins at the beginning and where the firs...

rheumatoid arthritis with the need to fortify ones mental and emotional status in order to deal with the chronic systemic illness....

of the patients in a single unit will be assigned to one RN; the other half will be assigned to another. Another will be availabl...

if they are simple and straightforward. These patient data records will be replaced weekly, and each will contain a weeks worth o...

or understanding when the staff or the doctors have to move on to the next client. Many patients complain that their healthcare pr...

Today, the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that it is no longer only added stress and long hours for those...

techniques or theories as they pertain to the medical world, and it is as if the prison setting is the last place where these tech...

crimes, this aggregate data may inadvertently taints certain areas which would then be determined at "greater risk" than other are...

goes way beyond the paradigm of nursing as simply a "handmaiden" to physicians. The nursing professional is required to know virtu...

gives the appearance of increased attention to theory and evidenced-based nursing in an atmosphere of caring for the individual. ...

the realization of the "dehumanizing" of patients that led to them being referred to as "Bed x," "Case x" or some other nameless, ...

2002 and allowed for a National Nurse Service Corps program to provide funding for tuition, expenses and a stipend to those nursin...

exclusion principle acting on its electrons (in white dwarfs) or nucleons (in neutron stars)" (Dolan 1079). Yet, when "No equilibr...

within the past two decades. Latch-key kids, single- and no-parent families, emotionally absent parents, working parents -- all t...

as relating information to patients families. Pugh relates that just thinking about this task made her anxious; however, the staff...

nurses regarding physical touch, found that these study participants used touch as a therapeutic form of nonverbal communication, ...