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Second World War and Nursing

as the "Angel of Mercy" during the late 19th century; the "Gal Friday" during the 1920s and the "Heroine" during World War II (Bro...

Nursing and Conflict Resolution

a deleterious impact to patient welfare. With appropriate conflict resolution skills, however, most conflict can be either avoide...

Nursing and the Holism Concept

nursing practice and nurses are formally authorized from the society to touch their clients in the course of nursing activities. ...

Emergency Nurse Triage and Education

being the most complete. Education in triage generally has not been complete at all, however (Crafter, Little and Ritchie, 2000)....

Professional Dilemmas and Nursing Ethics

decisions. It is through our status as health care professionals that such a role is not only valued but critical. Nursing...

Politics and Nurses

(Political Power, 2002). The profession of nursing is no different from any other in this regard (Political Power, 2002). Qualit...

Refugee Camps and the Application of Florence Nightingale's Environmental Theory

was well educated (Le Vasseur, 1998), from a family of wealth and yet held an unusual compassion for those less fortunate. She wa...

Values and Professionalism in Nursing

that "People choose nursing for love, not money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and...

Encouraging Continuation of Breast Feeding

for the infant for the first six months" (Moore et al., 1998; p. 36). Bearing this in mind we address those women who are perhaps ...

Developing a Plan for Nursing Education

other people. Whereas simulation is rehearsed, however, role playing is not. It requests that the learners take on the character...

Comparison of Integrative, Quantitative, and Qualitative Research Designs

to be exclusionary in terms of acceptable methods and resulted in what Taylor called "the great fault of modern psychology ... tha...

Nursing Homes and Ethical Issues

blatant display of irreverence, with some of the worst infractions found within the health care industry. The cramped, dark and u...

Nursing Competency and the Use of Technology

(Hodges, Satkowski, and Ganchorre, 1998). Despite the hospital closings and the restructuring of our national health care system ...

Domestic Violence and Community Health Nursing

domestic violence is to, first of all, screen for domestic violence with all injured patients. When screening for abuse, Flitcraft...

Cultural Mores and Nursing

view of medicine in order to better help the indigenous population on which she is called to serve. Before launching any p...

3rd Army Speech of Gen. George Patton Applied to Vietnam

Rhoads essay on the life and experiences of a nurse in Vietnam gives a chilling clarity of the realities with which medical person...

Patient Harassment of Nurses

had even been stalked by patients (Global Forum for Health Research, 2000). A major study in Australia found that there is a sign...

Fictional Family Unit and Application of Family Theory

brief excursion into heterosexuality twenty years earlier, who Armand and Albert raised. Son Val (Dan Futterman) does not share A...

Nurses, Patients, and Managed Care

as HMO, PPO, POS, EPO, PHO, IDS and AHP (IHA, 2002). This is creating a service that can be seen as dividing...

5 Articles Summarized

method in Assisted Suicide: Is There A Future? Ethical And Nursing Considerations employed the use of hypothetical euthanasia case...

Questions on Nursing Theory

to health care. Many of the same questions that can apply to assessing the validity of qualitative research can be used to ...

Patient Care and Individual Differences

and sustaining without yielding, they contend that bearing is a reaction which is more passive than coping but an activity which p...

Nursing Home Autonomy and Concept Development

That freedom and responsibility can improve the nursing home experience for all involved. Definition and Clarification...

Nursing and Physical Restraints Usage

the restrained person and others. This implies that the force used in restraining the person is less injurious to all concerned th...

Nursing Methods of Research and Validity Questions

practitioners that do not hold an MSN degree, and the resulting population would be too homogeneous to be of any real benefit. ...

Nurse Practitioner Profession and Risks of Musculoskeletal Injuries

and other health care workers cope with musculoskeletal problems even in the primary care setting. A Wausau Insurance Company rep...

Nursing and Professionalism

present-day nurse, he notes, this can be construed to mean a caring about the well-being of those the nurse serves which, in this ...

Value of Mentoring in the Nursing Profession

term. The rationale is that the experienced nurse will guide the new graduate into the active and applied portion of the pr...

Nursing Management Change Theory

incremental. It occurs in small steps, each of which are interspersed with a period of adjustment. This can be useful in staffin...

Hypertension Caused by Pregnancy

of pregnancies, pending on the population and the definitions used (Walker, 2000). Hypertension in pregnancy is typically classi...