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are RNs who are "prepared, through advanced education and clinical training, to provide preventive and acute health-care services"...

In four pages this research paper examines nursing's metaparadigm in a consideration of concepts including nursing, health, enviro...

The concept of health also has undergone change over the years. It formerly referred to absence of disease, but now it generally ...

and Robinson, 2003). Another element complicating the problem is the fact that in the early 1990s, many hospitals restructured a...

operating room to recovery, the tracking of patient information becomes an imperative part of this process (Beyea, Hicks and Becke...

and retention" (Andersen, 2002, p. 603). This then should be the first priority: to design a study that will accrue and retain ...

today will reach retirement age within 15 years (Mee and Robinson, 2003). At the same time, fewer people are entering nursing, as ...

images represent some aspect of nursing? Examination of this question shows that two of these images are particularly helpful in d...

and nurses need to be and has generated capacity and energy within that body of nursing to reach that vision" (Ralko 6). A princip...

the associates course of study to address the very things that can make the greatest difference in patient outcomes and satisfacti...

Under her wing, Nightingale took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to health. ...

and Ingalls (2003) describe the four metaparadigms allegorically as the "roots" of a living tree, emphasizing that the metaparadig...

and nursing literature abounds with how such theories influence and guide nursing practice in all of its varied aspects. For exa...

nurses which makes job searching easier. Registered nurses are in great demand and it is thought that there will be a significa...

best way to appease both the law and the public; its dynamic decision about whether to include doctor-assisted suicide and volunta...

policies in regard to the PSDA. I have been fortunate in that I was chosen to be a member of that team. Consequently, I have at ...

are getting calls from every part of the country every day. I am hearing from nurses that the working conditions are intolerable a...

eventually revert to many of the methods formerly used in patient care. She makes clear distinction between research in nursing t...

use this possibility as an excuse to not provide other people, people who are obviously suffering tremendously and would inevitabl...

It seems that within the context of the work, there is little compassion shown for the protagonist with the exception of one oncol...

expected only to continue for several years to come. Then, growth will begin to decline in response to fewer numbers of people re...

p. 144). Each has value, but each exists with a paradox. The more abstract theories are more easily generalized, but more diffic...

(p. 835) among Medicaid residents of Massachusetts nursing homes between 1991 and 1994. This mixed method (i.e., quantitative as ...

to changes which in turn can result in higher costs and reduced perceived quality of care. Primary nursing is not a new con...

that have affected my choice of working as a nurse. Of course many people have these factors in common within their personal valu...

during which time they reviewed data regarding the patient and made adjustments to the clinical care program. The advanced practic...

(Snyder and Lindquist, 2001). Under this philosophy the social factors and even the spiritual factors of an individuals existen...

Statistics expects that number to rise to more than one million in less than 20 years. The American Nurses Association and Monste...

The ever-changing nature of Americas health care system has introduced a chaos in a population that for more than a century has be...

In five pages this paper considers the reflective thinking concept from a nursing perspective with the emphasis on Bert Teekman's ...