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Kenneth P. Wilkinson and the Idea of Community

is to try and come up with a working definition of community in rural America, which is not as easy as it sounds. He points out th...

Questions On Medical Ethics

further examined by comparing the moral reasoning with the stages laid down by Piaget, with more complex and mature reasoning only...

Applications of the Classic Tests for a Just War

under the just intention of abating evil and promoting good, 4. whether other means of rectification have been attempted and war ...

Italian Business Culture

of prescribed gender roles. Societies that express a high degree of masculinity (MAS), as versus femininity. High MAS cultures are...

Epic Heroism of King Gilgamesh

The Epic of Gilgamesh, composed about 2000 BC and found inscribed on 12 tablets at Nineveh, is the earliest known epic. The Epic...

Developing Countries and Unemployment

In four pages this paper defines unemployment in terms of developing nations in a contrast and comparison to how it is defined by ...

Freudian Theories

This research paper discusses various theories of Freud, such as the nature of the unconscious and its role in repression; the thr...

How Can We Ever Understand our Persoanality

The term, personality, is difficult to define because different theorists define it in different ways. Allport, for example, belie...

The Change in the Views of Stakeholders

Public relations must be concerned about the perceptions of the key stakeholders, the groups and individuals whose behaviors can h...

Group Process/Nursing

(2003) gives the example of an nurse assigned to a busy intensive care unit (ICU) began experiencing clear signs of traumatic stre...

The Impact on the Quality of Life for the Tube Fed Elderly

quality of life represents the extent to which an individual can continue living his or her normal existence without the overwhelm...

Residencies for Registered Nurses

It is well known that there is a significant shortage of registered nurses that will continue to grow. There is a difference of op...

Neuman Systems Model

"interactive, systems, and developmental" approaches (Tourville and Ingalls 21). The systems model of nursing perceives the meta...

Diabetes: Alternative Health Care

of which includes diabetes (Samuels et al 55). Auricle pressure points - comprise over half of the more than 400 acupuncture poin...

Forensic Psychiatric Nursing

endeavor. Nursing in any context requires a detailed knowledge of individual patients. Specifically, a forensic nurse will have a...

Family Nurse Practitioner

either ill or injured, and therefore requires the aid of health care professionals. One might also feel that "person" underscores ...

Evidence-Based Practices Nursing

In health care, implementing evidence-based practices refers to making decisions about patient care that are based on the best evi...

Nursing Faculty Shortage

nurses are part of this generation and a large majority of nurses are retiring. It has been estimated that 50 percent of the count...

Quality within Australian Nursing

quality and safety for the care they can expect to receive from nurses and midwives and other health professionals are the same" (...

The Value of the Family

individual family member are considered within this context (Friedman, Bowden and Jones 37). In analyzing the various theories th...

Hypothetical Interview/Nursing Leader

task forces, committees, and organizational projects," while also serving as "resources to other nurses to facilitate advancing sk...

Diabetic Education/New Nurses

Sometimes the ability to perform foot self-exams for follow-up education or acute illness (Nettles, 2005, p. 44). Additionally, ...

Leddy’s Human Energy Model of Nursing

are possess "awareness and intention," and can construct a sense of self-identity and meaning," which includes the ability to choo...

Impact of a BSN on Nursing Role

background of hospital RNs is a significant factor in providing quality nursing care, as this study showed that the level of educa...

Lateral Violence in a Nursing Workforce

backstabbing, failure to respect privacy and broken confidences" (Stanley, et al, 2007, p. 1248). Ferrell notes the importance of ...

Dorothea Dix, Pioneer of Nursing

Dixs problems with mental health may have inspired her passion for aiding those who were diagnosed as being mentally unstable or i...

Learning Diabetes Self-care

of diabetes care, including blood/glucose monitoring, food intake monitoring, exercise monitoring, and insulin administration. Be...

Atrial Fibrillation

percent of al cardiac surgery patients (Brantman and Howie, 2006). While this postoperative condition is typically well-tolerated ...

Nursing Wages

in this case for a variety of reasons (Chaguturu and Vallabhaneni, 2005). First of all, despite any financial incentives, it has b...

Democratic Nursing Leadership

ability to empower and grow people" (Gokenbach, 2003, p. 8). Over the past decade, there have been numerous studies that have fou...