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(2003) gives the example of an nurse assigned to a busy intensive care unit (ICU) began experiencing clear signs of traumatic stre...

expectancy is increasing and more people are surviving serious illness and living longer with chronic illness. At the same time, t...

the nurse is uncertain of which tasks are appropriate to delegation, as well as the skill level of UAPs, their reluctance becomes ...

either ill or injured, and therefore requires the aid of health care professionals. One might also feel that "person" underscores ...

The paper begins by briefly identifying and explaining three of the standard change theory/models. The stages of each are named. T...

It is well known that there is a significant shortage of registered nurses that will continue to grow. There is a difference of op...

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

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...

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

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

will--in all likelihood--result in a professional negligence suit, rather than criminal charges. Suits against nurses result from ...

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

Smith, et al. (2002) explain that their purpose "was to investigate the effects of therapeutic massage on selected outcomes relate...

p. 311). Specifically, this study focused on discerning how indicators of the "psychosocial work climate" affected the frequency w...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

the nursing theorists that have come after her (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003). The interactive model focuses on the significant of ...

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

over the course of several years of research into the issue. Most styles also depend on an array of variables including "organiza...

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

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...

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