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their coworkers and their employees, because the leader creates a foundation from which the organizational goals can be achieved. ...

concerns the how NP practice has been implemented in countries other than the US. The majority of research articles available in v...

12-21, live relatively sedentary lives, as they are not active enough to successfully maintain good health (Covelli, 2007). The in...

the ability of an institution to deliver quality, error-free care. At the Six Sigma level, there are roughly "3.4 errors per one m...

(Allmark, 2003, p. 4). Poststructuralism: This perspective takes a deconstructive view of structuralism and "sees inquiry as ine...

serve to mentor teens and provide socially positive guidance and support. Diagnostic and screening exams will also be available, b...

and * Student presentations (50.6 percent" (Burkemper, et al, 2007, p. 14). Less than one third of the courses surveyed indicat...

to five-times the risk for CHD, which contrasts sharply with the double risk encountered in African American men. There is also a ...

in any other state must, as of January 1, 2008, have a masters or another advanced graduate degree in nursing (Phillips, 2005). Wi...

Background/Review of Literature The eight articles/studies that constitute this literature review encompasses several key concept...

NAON recognizes that learning and developing professional is a life-long processes and it helps orthopedic nurses achieve the goal...

in death is a wise safeguard. In the early part of the twentieth century, rationalizations abounded in medical literature that def...

legislation that authorizes a Nurse Licensure Compact (National Council of the State Boards of Nursing, Nurse Licensure Compact, 2...

Additionally, the model also "incorporates a life span continuum, where the individual passes from fully dependent at birth, to fu...

of the patient experience" (Engebretson 20). The background provided by a large, close-knit family means that, from childhood, I h...

as well as those studies that have suggested broadening students exposure to families and children with special needs. This discus...

it comes to orders, medications, tests, transfers and so on. Another problem for both physicians and nurses is identifying all p...

much broader in its application. It is this broadness that allows nurses to reach across religious lines and distinctions. In a su...

in nursing educators aged 36 to 45 (Lewallen, et al, 2003). To complicate matters further, recent statistics show that nurses wh...

all aspects of nursing. While the prime relationship in nursing is the one between the nurse and patient, relationships between nu...

a mentor and/or a preceptor. Mentoring is the "process through which a relationship is established between an experienced indivi...

partners in the healthcare process. Through training and education, nurses learn to make decisions on multiple issues of patient c...

are necessary for patient survival" (Kelley, 2005, p. 2). When the blood volume in the body is too low, it activates "compensatory...

nurse working on a medical unit at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center. According to Kodet, the only thing ...

perceived self-efficacy (Capik, 1998). JJ explained how Penders theory guides her priorities in establishing educational goals, ...

naturally create a prime source of psychic conflict for nurses, which would facilitate the development of burnout. Jenkins, Ellio...

2005, p.165). In obese children, the number of fat cells present in the body can be as much as three times higher than in normal w...

Family crisis). However, society itself is made up of smaller units, of which the family is one, and therefore structural function...

move in concentric circles of caring--from individuals, to others, to community, to (the) world" (Vance, 2003). Caring science inv...

most often have a great deal of training and, in most mainstream settings, are also nurses or nurse-midwife practitioners. Many ar...