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determine their relationships with others, as well as pull people of similar interests and often similar personalities together an...

(Snyder and Lindquist, 2001). Under this philosophy the social factors and even the spiritual factors of an individuals existen...

...purpose of this study was to describe the process of bearing illness and injuries among individuals with catastrophic illnesses...

Statistics expects that number to rise to more than one million in less than 20 years. The American Nurses Association and Monste...

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...

(p. 835) among Medicaid residents of Massachusetts nursing homes between 1991 and 1994. This mixed method (i.e., quantitative as ...

to examine whether womens social roles mediate the impact of heart surgery on their psychological well-being" (Plach and Heidrich,...

Medical Center, 2002). It is estimated that 13 to 18 million adults suffer from incontinence at some time or other (Mercy Medical...

in which nurses had to request perceptions for certain types of dressing was a waste of time and resources, which in turn impacted...

are getting calls from every part of the country every day. I am hearing from nurses that the working conditions are intolerable a...

practitioners that do not hold an MSN degree, and the resulting population would be too homogeneous to be of any real benefit. ...

base on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, officially bringing the United States into World War II. At the time of the surprise attack, howev...

expected only to continue for several years to come. Then, growth will begin to decline in response to fewer numbers of people re...

and long-term care facilities (CNRA). The CNRA also outlined the distinct functions of a nurse in the care of individuals, recog...

it is useful to follow certain well-established frameworks for critique of qualitative research. For the purposes of this report, ...

appropriate. Also, when changing bed linens it is imperative that the soiled bed linens get placed in a bag and not into the clea...

on a global scale. Therefore, for nurses to succeed in the complex world of the twenty-first century, many authorities feel th...

In ten pages this paper examines the increased visibility of a nurse's role and also considers the enhancement of nursing document...

chosen. The Metropolitan Museum of Art indicates two events that would be appropriate for a humanities-oriented fieldtrip geared...

has always been about the development of autonomy, equality, social justice and democracy" (Mezirow, 1999). The transformative app...

self-knowledge (Simpson, 2004). While anecdotal evidence is not regarded as conclusive, the experience of individual nurses in reg...

numbers of young students came to believe that perhaps nursing would provide an outlet for caring natures as well as support a fam...

the politics found in hospitals and other environments (Reuters, 2008). Supply and demand is always a major driver of salaries in...

it is also something that people must essentially be trained for, go to school for, and seek out as a career, at least for much of...

like an angel because she was so caring and helpful, and I couldnt get her, or nursing, out of my mind. I soon realized that nursi...

nurse anesthetist. For one week, I watched the interactions between the nurse anesthetist and other professionals, as well as the...

an adolescent client (Wallis, 2004, p. 59). Data on the development of abstract reasoning skills, as well as of the "recognition o...

the fever? Was it related to an infection in the surgical wound? Was the patient developing atelectasis and pneumonia? Or, was the...

today will reach retirement age within 15 years (Mee and Robinson, 2003). At the same time, fewer people are entering nursing, as ...

background and knowledge to evaluate when there is a need to consult a transcultural nurse specialist, as these specially trained ...