SEARCH RESULTS

Each field has its own set of terms and phrases. While they all make sense to experienced practitioners, they do not necessarily m...

This paper pertains to the challenges involved in achieving world peace and the actions that public health practitioners should ta...

This essay describes five medications that a healthcare practitioner might choose to meet first-aid needs as a castaway on a deser...

the important concepts involved in the field, and then refine and develop those concepts after they are challenged by or merge wit...

1997). 2) Why is this a key issue? What implications are there for current practice at work place? The recognition of assumptio...

This research paper points out that, historically, practitioners have worked independently within their particular "silo" of care ...

Flexible scheduling is one option the human resource practitioner can offer to parents who have children, especially parents who h...

This essay presents a discussion on mental health practice and the elderly, focusing on the biases of the student as a mental heal...

This research paper focuses on Betsy, a 79-year-old woman who has lost interest in normal activities and lost close to 20 pounds o...

beyond the domestic sphere into virtually every profession and job category from which they were once barred, they have had to con...

endeavor. Nursing in any context requires a detailed knowledge of individual patients. Specifically, a forensic nurse will have a...

nurses should understand these patients thoroughly, "who they are, where they live and with whom, their current health status and ...

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

individual women (Walker. 1990). It is my belief that we live within a culture that has created inherent inequities based on gend...

"interactive, systems, and developmental" approaches (Tourville and Ingalls 21). The systems model of nursing perceives the meta...

This research paper examines various aspect of the Affordable Care Act within the context of the need for national health coverage...

The paper begins by briefly identifying and explaining three of the standard change theory/models. The stages of each are named. T...

It is well known that there is a significant shortage of registered nurses that will continue to grow. There is a difference of op...

the nurse is uncertain of which tasks are appropriate to delegation, as well as the skill level of UAPs, their reluctance becomes ...

the "niche were multiple members encounter and respond to disease and illness across the life course" (Denham, 2003, p. 143). Nurs...

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...

This involves intensive, one-on-one teaching, which enables autistic children to learn the intricacies of behaviors or skills via ...

ability to empower and grow people" (Gokenbach, 2003, p. 8). Over the past decade, there have been numerous studies that have fou...

information. These guidelines are also based on this researchers finding that self-care promotes the pediatric patients spiritual ...

many of the findings of nursing research have little or no relevance to their daily practice. Im and Meleis (1999) cite several re...

York found that, in the past, ambulance diversions were a seasonal event. However, more recent research finds that diversional sta...

concepts dominated the field of stress research beginning in the 1950s; however, by the 1970s, there was opposition to Selyes stre...

with their illness decreases and their partners ability to help them with the process is impeded as well. Decreased communication...

patient care (Hassmiller and Cozine, 2006). Some strategies proposed by RWJF for helping to decrease the tremendous workload on nu...