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2003). Most international nurses coming to the US come from the Philippines, but many also come from Canada and India with addit...

up billboards offering cash incentives, while nursing schools also originated creative means of recruiting more students (Wells). ...

the very act of following the "law" (i.e., supply and demand) of economics now has exacerbated the shortage of nurses who also are...

to the wide-ranging aspect of nursing than merely administering medicine; in fact, the myriad components that ultimately comprise ...

and continues to do so, over the past two decades, as it was first published in 1979 (Falk-Rafael, 2000). In formulating her theor...

member with a meaningful recovery experience? When did you first realize that you wanted to help others? Relating personal details...

such as medical history as well as their role in consultation and also in the way that preventative healthcare is delivered, the ...

risk factors that can be altered, with special attention to lowering cholesterol and blood pressure. B. Treatment of ischemia usua...

a specialized body of knowledge, skills and experience that enables these nurses to offer a high standard of care to critically il...

of the greatest areas of concern. Finding sufficient time for school, as well as all other activities required of the student, was...

influential resource and is a resource in which the patient will rely. Ethics Issues In this paper the treatment of a pati...

students. Why is there a nursing shortage? Basically, there is a nursing shortage because governments have not done what was requ...

considered one of a number of high stress jobs, and stress is problematic, causing inefficiencies, high staffing turnover rates an...

the central problem is often the inappropriate use of unlicensed personnel in the workplace setting. Though nurse mangers are ins...

which a person demonstrates fundamental functioning in their life environment (Jones and Kilpatrick, 1996). In other words, the c...

advocates, providing medical treatments prescribed by physicians, and keeping accurate records of changes in patient status (Nurse...

infant mortality rate in the United States, which is one of the highest of the developed nations. Women who smoke at the...

of a unified health care organization that included both Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH...

recognition of cultural and social influences on health care outcomes. As a result, advanced practice nurses have also become int...

effectiveness has been studied extensively, and that studies consistently conclude that NP-based care is comparable to that origin...

to take insulin only when his blood glucose level was above the value established by his physician. The nurse laid out all ...

for caring for the wounded (Holder, 2003). For the first time in American history, women were asked to leave their homes and act...

body. Though "the VG site has long been established as an optimal site, not all nurses use it" (Scott and Marfell-Jones, 2004; p....

and can be applied in a variety of clinical settings, as well as in educational programs and research. Orems theory is bas...

must have at least some knowledge of the topic of discussion beforehand, or the discussion can disintegrate into an exercise in "p...

evaluating information (including assumptions and evidence) related to the issue, considering alternatives ... and drawing conclus...

viewpoints that articulate their own unvoiced feelings toward their profession. For example, in a discussion in an online nursin...

lawyers, uncaring nurses and pedophile clergy is to cut back on scientific research--a tenuous conclusion at best. Where the art...

This left Mee with little opportunity to connect with these patients as human beings and she started "to feel like a machine," whi...

paradigms According to Parse (1987), the simultaneity paradigm of nursing offers a substantially different view worldview than th...