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much broader in its application. It is this broadness that allows nurses to reach across religious lines and distinctions. In a su...
partners in the healthcare process. Through training and education, nurses learn to make decisions on multiple issues of patient c...
a mentor and/or a preceptor. Mentoring is the "process through which a relationship is established between an experienced indivi...
the nursing theorists that have come after her (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003). The interactive model focuses on the significant of ...
p. 311). Specifically, this study focused on discerning how indicators of the "psychosocial work climate" affected the frequency w...
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, ...
a long period, have the opportunity to build relationships with them and are able to come to know the individual patients response...
the situation in which the health care is offered, that is, a clinic, a hospital or a physicians office. "Health" refers to a st...
the realization of the "dehumanizing" of patients that led to them being referred to as "Bed x," "Case x" or some other nameless, ...
2002 and allowed for a National Nurse Service Corps program to provide funding for tuition, expenses and a stipend to those nursin...
gives the appearance of increased attention to theory and evidenced-based nursing in an atmosphere of caring for the individual. ...
expressing his or her misery. Such caregivers may have experienced patients who are as likely to cry out, thrash around, or simply...
of the patients in a single unit will be assigned to one RN; the other half will be assigned to another. Another will be availabl...
or understanding when the staff or the doctors have to move on to the next client. Many patients complain that their healthcare pr...
and settings. Individuals reactions to the same stressors can be quite different, with one stressor creating significant stress r...
Rural Nurses, represented by registered nurse and practicing attorney Jacqulyn Hall, filed an amici curiae (friends of the court) ...
in death is a wise safeguard. In the early part of the twentieth century, rationalizations abounded in medical literature that def...
stress and exhaustion sets in (1992). Nurse managers are subject to continual stress as many of their tasks involve life an...
old signs of questionable care still apply, however. Unexplained injury or falls, the occurrence of pressure sores, and evidence ...
most often have a great deal of training and, in most mainstream settings, are also nurses or nurse-midwife practitioners. Many ar...
There is, in fact, an ongoing shortage of well-trained, competent, nurses. This shortage could be expected to intensify beginning...
individual, regardless of that individuals station in or stage of life. Todays nurse has many duties and answers to people and ad...
have more opportunity to encounter difficulties involved in nursing the critically ill. "How frequently a given stressor occurs d...
In five pages this paper examines literature regarding the nurse's role in educating hospitalized patients on smoking cessation. ...
relationships, in terms of power dynamics and the initiation and resolution of conflicts. Communication theory is, therefore, impo...
patients, cleaning patients up, changing the beds for patients, helping patients go to the bathroom, and many other simple, but ne...
from an advanced practice nurse. Patients value the nurse practitioner (NP) as a trustworthy source of medical information that a...
In six pages this paper examines nursing care from the perspectives of nurses and patients as reported by this Australian study. ...
the incidence of the deaths that were preventable, and also developed the polar-area diagram as a way of demonstrating the impact ...