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socially isolating, as outside opinion is discounted. The team adopts a "defensive posture," which is evidenced by "derogatory, de...

30 months, as this is when between 13 and 28 percent of senior nurses are due to retire (Sibbald, 2003). Currently, close to a thi...

graduate nursing hires (Truman, 2004, p. 45). The novice nurses participate in six hours of classroom instruction, plus thirty hou...

all aspects of professional nursing and a nurses obligation to patients to provide ethical and professional quality care. The firs...

frees him from this indignity and travesty of life by smothering him with a pillow and then escapes from the asylum (One Flew, 199...

A 3 page essay in which the writer offers a guide to writing about how a nurse's philosophy pertaining to the nature of humanity i...

which are factors that are likely to have a beneficial affect on the chronic nursing shortage that is currently affecting the heal...

indicated by Carter, census also frequently plays a vital role in this regard for nursing managers. Other factors that I considere...

that the working environment of the scenario is lacking, as the two nurses who are moonlighting, if this accusation is true, may h...

can only be expected to escalate in the near future. Therefore, issues of affordability, in relation to equitable healthcare servi...

developing countries, while it alleviating the nursing shortage in the industrialized countries to a certain degree, is creating a...

Domain concepts Health: The traditional understanding of "health" is that is the absence of illness and/or injury. However, for ...

to changes which in turn can result in higher costs and reduced perceived quality of care. Primary nursing is not a new con...

experience of another person, and another can enter into the nurses experiences" (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003, p. 25). Watson rega...

Nursing has evolved over the decades primarily as a result of research (Director, 2009). Nurses recognize a problem and introduce ...

be vulnerable to abuse or neglect for a variety of reasons and in a variety of situations, which range from home care to care in r...

Empirical research ahs consistently reported that when communication between the two professions is good, which includes doctors ...

This nurse that leaving the acute care facility had to do with "When youre constantly short-staffed and feel your managers arent s...

situation. As a provider of care, it is the role of the community health nurse to address the needs of Centerville adolescents i...

students values : This calls for personal reflection. A question that the student can ask herself/himself is how he or she might h...

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...

study also examined the availability of information resources available to the RN respondents (both at work and at home). Their fi...

(Domrose, 2001). However, current trends have developed that have greatly expanded the scope of med-surg nursing, which includes a...

counselor, often causing even greater tension than what already exists and drawing away from the ability to forge an alliance. Se...

has always been about the development of autonomy, equality, social justice and democracy" (Mezirow, 1999). The transformative app...

the politics found in hospitals and other environments (Reuters, 2008). Supply and demand is always a major driver of salaries in...

less people living in rural communities and the "more remote geographical regions" of Australia than in urban locales (Bushy 104)....

numbers of young students came to believe that perhaps nursing would provide an outlet for caring natures as well as support a fam...

self-knowledge (Simpson, 2004). While anecdotal evidence is not regarded as conclusive, the experience of individual nurses in reg...