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improve it, then nursing can truly be an invaluable profession to choose. This leads us to the reality of helping people. Perha...

military personnel and other non-combatants. While McConnell was seeing her charges safely to Japan, General Douglas MacArthur was...

a little less than a third of them were under the age of 40 (Meadows, 2002, p. 46). This offered conclusive proof that number of ...

and statistics. This approach works well for in physics and math, but less well when applied to people. Moloney (2002) offers thre...

is wheelchair bound, but nevertheless cooks for herself and shops for herself in a nearby grocery store, using her motorized wheel...

At the heart of nursing is the nurse-patient relationship, which provides the foundation for nursing care (Patusky, 2003). This r...

achieved that the critical care nurse may address the bio-psycho-social implications of the event (Alfafara and Hedges, 1996). Fur...

risk factor, but is of less consequence among those diabetics who pay close attention to their blood sugar levels, test often and ...

already has been diagnosed as having some form of heart disease. In that sense, primary prevention is not possible. The goals of...

undergoes surgery for a hip arthroplasty 24 hours after admission. Twenty-four hours after surgery the nurses note that Mrs. Gale...

Bell (2000) reports that when an Australian hospital instituted shared governance, nurse managers responded "by developing a teamw...

cross to bear and they would be shamed to bring it to someone else. The healthcare worker must not attempt to alter the patients r...

it seems appropriate to suggest that a picture that appears less "faded" would be appropriate in conveying the message that the in...

upon the nursing knowledge that I already possess in order to facilitate my helping larger number of people through the mediums of...

have access to a range of drugs. Bennett (et al, 2000) argues that the overall rate of substance abuse in the nursing popualtion r...

There are numerous nursing scholars who utilizing ethnographic techniques in their research; university courses that address both ...

official entity until 1993. Today it addresses an array of nursing issues. The goals of the program are: * "Promoting quality in...

frequently the needs of terminal patients are not addressed properly and that multiple problems exist in this regard. Practitioner...

Additionally, at the completion of this study intervention, evaluation of results showed that the project also resulted in improve...

relationship or marriage (Darling, 2005). For example, a homosexual man suffering from HIV-related illness and receiving the inten...

Furthermore, it is also crucial for nurses to also recognize its association with other similar conditions, such dementia, as deli...

system," since the institution of mandated nursing ratios, and also that data shows California hospitals have not only been able t...

the prevalence of UI was high in this region of the country and particularly high among African Americans in two of the states, wh...

cardiac monitor, a seizure, drug reaction or other sign of a critical condition...(They) are expected to fill out reports" that we...

2004). As errors are inevitable, in order to significantly reduce the rate at which they occur, it is imperative that mistakes sho...

that I wanted to make a difference in peoples lives as well. But while my people skills are excellent and I am sure that I can e...

factors" (Hader and Guy, 2004, p. 21). The international Association for the Study of Pain and the American Pain Society define pa...

of this decision. Ecological theory is an attempt to bring in many different influences in order to understand how a society ...

arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways and all other products of human work and thought..." (Purnell, 2005, p. 7). It is the eth...

Nursing (Webber, 2007). However, this is not a long-term solution. The long-term solution to achieving an adequate nursing force f...