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backstabbing, failure to respect privacy and broken confidences" (Stanley, et al, 2007, p. 1248). Ferrell notes the importance of ...
This involves intensive, one-on-one teaching, which enables autistic children to learn the intricacies of behaviors or skills via ...
Aesthetic, the need for beauty, order and symmetry (Huitt, 2004). 7. Self-actualization is a plateau not all people reach. At this...
verifies old knowledge (Wilkerson, 1998). As this suggests, the continuation of scholarly advances in the development of nursing t...
makes the point that EBP involves more than simply utilize research evidence; and Penz and Bassendowski emphasize this point by s...
many of the findings of nursing research have little or no relevance to their daily practice. Im and Meleis (1999) cite several re...
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...
ability to empower and grow people" (Gokenbach, 2003, p. 8). Over the past decade, there have been numerous studies that have fou...
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...
individual family member are considered within this context (Friedman, Bowden and Jones 37). In analyzing the various theories th...
supply and the importance of fruit and vegetables in the patients diet. She authored over 200 books, reports and pamphlets on nurs...
Sometimes the ability to perform foot self-exams for follow-up education or acute illness (Nettles, 2005, p. 44). Additionally, ...
task forces, committees, and organizational projects," while also serving as "resources to other nurses to facilitate advancing sk...
include an understanding of how insulin functions to control glucose levels and the interaction between variables that can affect ...
patient care (Hassmiller and Cozine, 2006). Some strategies proposed by RWJF for helping to decrease the tremendous workload on nu...
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...
from pain that began after radiation therapy that caused nerve damage (Fischman, 2000). After receiving therapy at a pain clinic, ...
gives the appearance of increased attention to theory and evidenced-based nursing in an atmosphere of caring for the individual. ...
2002 and allowed for a National Nurse Service Corps program to provide funding for tuition, expenses and a stipend to those nursin...
in the 19th and early 20th century, the fact is even more remarkable. "Well and Strong and Young" Updike writes that in 1854 Bar...
Today, the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that it is no longer only added stress and long hours for those...
the realization of the "dehumanizing" of patients that led to them being referred to as "Bed x," "Case x" or some other nameless, ...
expressing his or her misery. Such caregivers may have experienced patients who are as likely to cry out, thrash around, or simply...
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...
or understanding when the staff or the doctors have to move on to the next client. Many patients complain that their healthcare pr...