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several years. Psychologically, it has been found that individuals more actively involved with their own health care often fare m...

In five pages this paper examines literature regarding the nurse's role in educating hospitalized patients on smoking cessation. ...

health care fields have provided a substantial body of information about their professionals, physic therapy has not assessed thes...

In five pages this paper discusses how the shortage of nurses compromises the safety of both patients and nurses alike. Six sourc...

In six pages this paper examines nursing care from the perspectives of nurses and patients as reported by this Australian study. ...

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...

level work. An example is that the nurse practitioner can have his or her own practice under a doctors supervision. Still, they ma...

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

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

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...

is not. It is not a form of relaxation or a set of exercises to improve posture. Neither is it an alternative therapy; although ra...

This essay gives an overview of why mandatory overtime for nursing staff is a significant issue that as the potential to harm pati...

The United States has become more and more diverse over the last four decades and that diversity continues to expand. Different cu...

it is like the concept of paying it forward. Praying forward is that act of doing something kind or helpful for someone else, they...

Sharf, 2007). Other central foundational concepts of this approach include the striving for self-awareness, the goal of freedom an...

in the U.S. stands at 8.5 percent to over 14 percent, depending on the specific area of specialty (Letvak and Buck, 2008), by 2020...

provide effective communication, the Band Aid song "Do They Know Its Christmas" a song which led to Live Aid was effective; this w...

proven to be the principal reason for nosocomial infections, that is, infections that are acquired after hospital admittance. Impo...

patient care (Hassmiller and Cozine, 2006). Some strategies proposed by RWJF for helping to decrease the tremendous workload on nu...

goes on to say that the nature of the family is its members being "connected emotionally" (Bowen Center for the Study of the Famil...

topic has been anecdotal in nature, therefore, Banks and Banks (2002) designed a study utilizing pet therapy, or as they term it, ...

Aesthetic, the need for beauty, order and symmetry (Huitt, 2004). 7. Self-actualization is a plateau not all people reach. At this...

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

individual is an "open system," which includes "distinct, but integrated physiological, psychological and socio-cultural systems" ...

a peaceful death among terminal patients. HSBs of specific groups of any size - whether large or small - are positively related t...

two major forces, the forces of practical and intellectual, may also be interpreted as the forces of reality and aspiration or of ...

In eight pages an imaginary symposium discusses the dichotomies of the individual versus society, passion versus reason and featur...

In ten pages this research paper discusses therapeutic approaches, techniques, and outcomes of each type of family therapy. There...

This research paper pertains to the debate over online nursing education versus the traditional, classroom education. The pros and...

for an expert mentor, which are "being an authority in the field, an educator, a counselor, a sponsor, and having personal commitm...