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Essays 1981 - 2010
Developing New Nurse Leaders also considers the issue of shifts in leadership and governance, with a focus on the role of nurses a...
when he cannot feel a pulse. A new nurse, a first year graduate, Sally enters the room, sees Long and runs out. She encounters Nur...
prepared for this role" (McKenna, 1997, p. 87). Perhaps most significant of all was Florence Nightingales belief that env...
I - Demonstrating Integrity at all times D - Showing concern for the Dignity of others E - Displaying Excellence and Empathy in ...
trends. This peer-reviewed journal also offers its readership a forum for sharing their experiences with their peers, as well as l...
necessary health-related behaviors" required for meeting "ones therapeutic self-care demand (needs)" (Hurst, et al 2005, p. 11). U...
properly, nursing staff is highly aware of this lack. Research into nursing staff retention has found that the quality of housekee...
need of treatment following tours in Rwanda, the Balkans and Somalia" (Auld). Mental health problems in regards to soldiers retu...
10 years ago, the Christian Science Monitor, in covering an article about child care workers and the poverty-level wages they rece...
the risk of medical errors, such as dispensing the wrong medication or the wrong dose (Nursing overtime, 2004). The study, which w...
own paper. Specify the institution, the type of degree, and precisely what your GPA was, not simply "greater than 3.5." I have f...
is simply to require that their nursing staff make up for understaffing by working mandatory overtime on a more or less permanent ...
trying times of their lives. Nurses have the capacity to improve lives. Nothing could be more meaningful or provide a greater sens...
1999). Lee and his family owned a small business and had no health or medical insurance. The family was urged to begin the process...
if the individual discovers that he or she has thoughts and feelings that are "very basic and very strong" with regard to others o...
These authors conducted a large study of 3,830 individuals consisting of 17.8 percent nurses, 21.8 percent physicians, 29.6 percen...
Leaders create the future rather than simply become its victims (Kerfoot, 1998). They are generally thinking several months ahead,...
that the doctrine of informed consent is "hopelessly flawed--or at least misguided," as it is often not possible to truly inform ...
Sharon Bernier, RN, PhD and President of the National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing, points out that Aikens study also...
make a real difference. In helping professions, such leadership is desirable. The health care industry today is fraught with probl...
the basic paradigms of nursing professional theory are considered within a social context. For example, health is defined as a "dy...
the disease as well as around the prevention of the spread of the causative organism to other individuals that come into contact w...
considering this economic downturn, the numbers of undergraduates pursuing nursing careers began to also decline. In 1991, Canada ...
learned long ago the value of yet another Deming (1986) exhortation, that of continuous improvement. By definition, the concept i...
Working for the well-staffed working environment in itself is no small task, given the fact of the ongoing nursing shortage. The ...
reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...
her, per se, but rather with her expectations of Madeline, which are not age appropriate. The scenario says that Madeline knows be...
the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...
a nurses role as a change agent in data base management. Fonville, Killian, and Tranbarger (1998) note that successful nurses of ...
preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...