SEARCH RESULTS

But, it also refers to the fact that nurses "shape and transform the environment" as well as offer care within the context of an e...

Nightingale as power-crazed and iron-willed. Salvage (2001) tends to believe that these criticisms of Nightingale reflect lingerin...

Kanters position that the situational aspects of a working environment have the ability to influence worker attitudes and behavior...

we had a helper who came in during the day and a nurse at night. Both of them were kind, experienced and very caring, and I could ...

those under stress or who are unhappy with their lives. For this reason there has been a higher use in poorer social classes where...

leader. Finally, my educational objectives include demonstrating an awareness of and a skill for nursing research, which requires...

and nurses need to be and has generated capacity and energy within that body of nursing to reach that vision" (Ralko 6). A princip...

today will reach retirement age within 15 years (Mee and Robinson, 2003). At the same time, fewer people are entering nursing, as ...

nurse anesthetist. For one week, I watched the interactions between the nurse anesthetist and other professionals, as well as the...

images represent some aspect of nursing? Examination of this question shows that two of these images are particularly helpful in d...

and Robinson, 2003). Another element complicating the problem is the fact that in the early 1990s, many hospitals restructured a...

The concept of health also has undergone change over the years. It formerly referred to absence of disease, but now it generally ...

In four pages this research paper examines nursing's metaparadigm in a consideration of concepts including nursing, health, enviro...

nurses which makes job searching easier. Registered nurses are in great demand and it is thought that there will be a significa...

and nursing literature abounds with how such theories influence and guide nursing practice in all of its varied aspects. For exa...

and Ingalls (2003) describe the four metaparadigms allegorically as the "roots" of a living tree, emphasizing that the metaparadig...

Under her wing, Nightingale took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to health. ...

are under our care. By promoting healthy and better communication between us and the patient, we do not need to involve the famil...

theoretical framework for promoting professional development through the use of quality circles. This management theory involves a...

in which nurses had to request perceptions for certain types of dressing was a waste of time and resources, which in turn impacted...

to identify and to relate in terms of actual patient care. Ida Jean Orlando created a conceptual view of the nursing process whic...

the associates course of study to address the very things that can make the greatest difference in patient outcomes and satisfacti...

between those who supported mandatory staffing ratios, based on research such as the study conducted by Linda Aiken, and the stanc...

based on a research study that surveyed over 2,000 RNs who provide direct nursing care in three mid-western hospitals. This result...

that they are often asked to take care of more patients with higher acuity levels than they have in the past (Hassmiller and Cozin...

stress, which causes fluctuating levels of neuro-endocrine responses (Taylor, Repetti and Seeman, 1997). To understand this concep...

whoever the client might be, that is, an individual, family, group or community. The third provision indicates that nurses are als...

This paper is basically about nurse leadership. A scenario was presented in which a nurse director needed to present a new annual ...

Research has confirmed that nicotine addiction is at least as strong as heroin addiction. This means that it is at least as hard t...

In a paper of six pages, the author reflects on a potential study that can be created to evaluate the success and failure of smoki...