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Beginning in the early 1990s, managed care targeted nursing as an expenditure where hospitals could cut costs. Managed care consul...

article, "Mother-Infant Skin-to-Skin Contact (Kangaroo Care)," kangaroo care offers the parents the only opportunity to engage in ...

in which care is provided for aging and dying adults in general. In addition, the researchers recognize that preparation for dyin...

authors state that research "and theory are key underpinnings that guide safe, effective, and comprehensive" (p. 35) practice. As...

by the caring physical presence of this nurse in her last remaining hours. However, the way in which this case turned out saw the ...

A 7 page client profile that discusses nursing care for an elderly client with degenerative brain disease and offers a research su...

being more capable of acting proactively and preventively. The philosophy of nursing is something much grander and more complex t...

which is where the AIDS population appears to lose its right to privacy. Schmidt (2005) notes that more currently, the Kennedy-Ka...

of describing this sample. The authors relate that the study sample was recruited by contacting two major health care employers in...

also a former student of Vivians is now in the rather awkward position of also being one of her doctors, as he is an intern and re...

of the study by stating it explicitly: "The purpose of this study was to explore how undergraduate nursing students learn to care ...

expectancy is increasing and more people are surviving serious illness and living longer with chronic illness. At the same time, t...

A 6 page paper about establishing a learning center in a hospital. The dimensions and location of the center is reported, includin...

economic positions (McGinn and Murr, 2006). All of this development in the past several years has led to a restatement of Shannon...

now regarded as a crucial and defining component of nursing, as caring defines "nursings unique area of practice and provides dire...

explained the process further and made it clear that he would perform the catheterization, the man approved. As this indicates, fr...

of family such as the one cited above. In many instances hospitals adhere to the traditional definition, which means that the poli...

of use) of sunscreen at the beach are important considerations. Other factors that should be assessed relative to subjective data...

and specific therapy" (Newswanger and Warren, 2004, p. 2405). As patients advance through the acute phase of the illness, supporti...

arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways and all other products of human work and thought..." (Purnell, 2005, p. 7). It is the eth...

As described by Araich (2001), four nursing strategies effectively summarize how a critical care nurse can use the RAM to aid a ca...

caring; 2. every human culture has lay (generic, folk or indigenous) care knowledge and practices and usually some professional ca...

the disease as well as around the prevention of the spread of the causative organism to other individuals that come into contact w...

trying times of their lives. Nurses have the capacity to improve lives. Nothing could be more meaningful or provide a greater sens...

runs $127 on average (Cummings, 2002). The goal of the ALF is to help senior citizens maintain as much independence as possible wi...

the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...

balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...

activities" (Orems Self-Care Model Concepts) that patients need to undertake to meet their own health care needs on a routine basi...

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...