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nurses are part of this generation and a large majority of nurses are retiring. It has been estimated that 50 percent of the count...

are possess "awareness and intention," and can construct a sense of self-identity and meaning," which includes the ability to choo...

supply and the importance of fruit and vegetables in the patients diet. She authored over 200 books, reports and pamphlets on nurs...

task forces, committees, and organizational projects," while also serving as "resources to other nurses to facilitate advancing sk...

quality and safety for the care they can expect to receive from nurses and midwives and other health professionals are the same" (...

Sometimes the ability to perform foot self-exams for follow-up education or acute illness (Nettles, 2005, p. 44). Additionally, ...

patient care (Hassmiller and Cozine, 2006). Some strategies proposed by RWJF for helping to decrease the tremendous workload on nu...

information. These guidelines are also based on this researchers finding that self-care promotes the pediatric patients spiritual ...

with their illness decreases and their partners ability to help them with the process is impeded as well. Decreased communication...

concepts dominated the field of stress research beginning in the 1950s; however, by the 1970s, there was opposition to Selyes stre...

York found that, in the past, ambulance diversions were a seasonal event. However, more recent research finds that diversional sta...

interests and values considered and respected in the decision-making process" (Fly and Johnstone, 2002). This rationale is undoubt...

is a term that refers to "a formal way of thinking (i.e. conceptualizing) about a process/system under study" (Conceptual Framewor...

Aesthetic, the need for beauty, order and symmetry (Huitt, 2004). 7. Self-actualization is a plateau not all people reach. At this...

This involves intensive, one-on-one teaching, which enables autistic children to learn the intricacies of behaviors or skills via ...

many of the findings of nursing research have little or no relevance to their daily practice. Im and Meleis (1999) cite several re...

several years. Psychologically, it has been found that individuals more actively involved with their own health care often fare m...

have different concerns and worries which will need to be addressed prior to the tackling of the practical issues. The plan will...

potential for long term physiological complications as well as long-term emotional impacts. Not only does the type of care needed...

secretary, should leave the ward when there were fewer than three children on the unit and work a second adult unit as well. He wa...

the study intervention. Also, as yet, Cook is not clear about the purposes, aims or goals of the study. Literature Review While ...

in the 19th and early 20th century, the fact is even more remarkable. "Well and Strong and Young" Updike writes that in 1854 Bar...

the inclination is to treat the dying patient with as little emotion as possible, so as not to suffer emotionally as well, many nu...

when Coco Chanel made the look desirable. Since that time, legions of youth and adults have sought to possess the "perfect" tan, ...

from pain that began after radiation therapy that caused nerve damage (Fischman, 2000). After receiving therapy at a pain clinic, ...

expressing his or her misery. Such caregivers may have experienced patients who are as likely to cry out, thrash around, or simply...

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. ...

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...