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for nurses who come into intimate contact with clients from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. Ott, Al-Khadhuri and Al-Junaibi...

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

has focused on two corollary components: 1. the accuracy of body size estimations and 2. the attitudes and feelings individuals ...

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

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

operations of nursing" (Horan, Doran and Timmins, 2004, p. 30). This is broken down into three basic categories: 1) wholly compen...

clinical nurse specialist and the advanced nurse practitioner is decidedly hazy. However, Wickham (2003) states that a nurse worki...

addressing specific phenomena or concepts and reflecting practice (Liehr and Smith, 1999). The grand theories of nursing, that is,...

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 ...

carcinoma in situ (DCIS). This is also known as "intraductal carcinoma or non-invasive breast cancer" (Breast Cancer, 2004; p. PG...

with at least one individuals background in patient care in conjunction with the theorists higher awareness of the interaction of ...

adaptation has a process in which individuals respond positively to environmental changes and described three types of stimuli: fo...

In the meantime, I plan to study teaching strategies and rationale, and also expand my personal travel experiences. Today as neve...

caring as the very definition of what constitutes personal values from a nursing perspective (2003). Koerner (1996), likewise, e...

Critically-Care nurses, 1989 in Nursing Management, 1999, p. 38). This abbreviated version of AACN nursing standards was located...

classifies the stroke patients needs in four domains: 1) medical/surgical issues; 2) mental status/emotion/coping behaviors; 3) ph...

certification program (Policy statement, 1999). On the other hand, the additional education required to become a licensed NP may t...

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

declined as "educators, employers and others recognize the need for educational changes in nursing" (Bednash, 2000, p. 2985). Asso...

within these models. Definition of nursing model Semantic confusion abounds in the relevant literature as to what--precisely--is...

proposed method of resolution is to design, develop and evaluate a clinical, evidence-based "diabetic education program to increas...

draw on the fundamental concepts espoused by the metaparadigms. Nevertheless, each branch of nursing theory approaches the subjec...

that the doctrine of informed consent is "hopelessly flawed--or at least misguided," as it is often not possible to truly inform ...

Sharon Bernier, RN, PhD and President of the National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing, points out that Aikens study also...

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

The metaparadigms of nursing represent common concepts that are accepted throughout the profession and across international bounda...

In five pages this research paper takes a nursing perspecitve regarding the elderly's physical changes and increased dependence th...

considering this economic downturn, the numbers of undergraduates pursuing nursing careers began to also decline. In 1991, Canada ...

reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...