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as well as those studies that have suggested broadening students exposure to families and children with special needs. This discus...
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...
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...
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...
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...
that is, a full-fledged study, the independent variable refers to the part of the methodology that is manipulated and the dependen...
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...
I replied that I could develop a program with her supervision, that nurses were more interested in furthering their training than ...
not money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely woul...
result that nursing pays well enough to support a family now, which is in great contrast to conditions in the distant past. The p...
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...
must have at least some knowledge of the topic of discussion beforehand, or the discussion can disintegrate into an exercise in "p...
evaluating information (including assumptions and evidence) related to the issue, considering alternatives ... and drawing conclus...
(Fawcett, 1995). Application of either model rests in large part on the appropriateness and completeness of nurse documentation (...
The link between nurse caring and patient satisfaction has been reported numerous times. For instance, the AORN journal reported a...
the business should listen to the majoritys complaints and seek to find a solution on which everyone can agree. If such agreement...
care system. Middaugh (2003) asserts that nursing management should provide emergency planning that spells out "what people should...
viewpoints that articulate their own unvoiced feelings toward their profession. For example, in a discussion in an online nursin...
to take insulin only when his blood glucose level was above the value established by his physician. The nurse laid out all ...
for caring for the wounded (Holder, 2003). For the first time in American history, women were asked to leave their homes and act...
effectiveness has been studied extensively, and that studies consistently conclude that NP-based care is comparable to that origin...
and can be applied in a variety of clinical settings, as well as in educational programs and research. Orems theory is bas...
body. Though "the VG site has long been established as an optimal site, not all nurses use it" (Scott and Marfell-Jones, 2004; p....