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affects specific individuals, but the future of society as a whole. As HIV infection has affected African American youth in greate...

the mountains in California, ride a horse in the Grand Canyon, volunteer in a cancer center, finish painting his house, attend his...

formulation with others, testing new behaviors, integrating this learning into "new, more satisfying behavior, and then using thes...

how the quality of this relationship affects the therapeutic success of nursing interventions. Major concepts (adaptation) : Lite...

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

ethics are a part of the concern. The hospital should not accept a patient load that it cannot handle. Another example of an issue...

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

I replied that I could develop a program with her supervision, that nurses were more interested in furthering their training than ...

for APNs. One such path is to be a nurse anesthetist, who is a licensed APN who is considered to be using personal professional ju...

drugs and to administer those drugs in a manner that is beneficial to our patients as well as being put into a positions where we ...

result that nursing pays well enough to support a family now, which is in great contrast to conditions in the distant past. The p...

their web site with which this nursing organization is involved. For instance, the AACN promotes a specific cardiovascular health ...

required qualified, competent staff. This resulted in the establishment of training schools for nurses (Formal training, 2005). Un...

not money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely woul...

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

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

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

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

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

survey. Encouraging nurses to cultivate an inquiring attitude The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) indicates ...

in the International Journal of Nursing Studies, looking at the effectiveness of nurses delivering health promotion activities to ...

evaluated stated that they are predominantly "hands-on learners." Eight of the 10 nurses evaluated stated they were hands-on lear...

The manner in which professional organizations can be used to keep nursing leaders aware of political issues that are relevant to ...

agent, such as an adult child or another proxy. In recent years, the DNR has been included in the Physicians Orders for Life Susta...

catheterization provides an effective method for evaluating the effectiveness of medications while also assessing cardiac function...

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

of professional nursing, nursing theory provides perspectives and guidance that aids nurses in achieving their primary goal of pro...

a long period, have the opportunity to build relationships with them and are able to come to know the individual patients response...

nursing care over the past decade and how do they support the argument for a continuum of educational practices for nursing profes...

Rural Nurses, represented by registered nurse and practicing attorney Jacqulyn Hall, filed an amici curiae (friends of the court) ...