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ability has improved considerably, inasmuch as the decisions I now make are more analytical and based upon a broader and more dive...

education for nurses in the US followed the model established by modern nursings founder Florence Nightingale (Fitzpatrick 63). Th...

all areas of professional nursing. Provisions 1 through 3 address the principal obligations of nursing, which are to the patient/c...

but fully 60 percent of charts of reporting skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) make no mention of any behavioral interventions prio...

CP/M, which was shortly to be succeeded by MS/DOS (Alsop 188). The Macintosh operating system offered an icon-driven system that a...

expected to develop some form of cancer "or another rapidly debilitating condition and well be dead within a year of getting the d...

individuals personal integrity, which is defined as a "sense of worth which can be conserved through consideration of cultural, et...

II. Population The target population for this inquiry are children of the world. However, the population needs to be narrowed as...

what was said in the first sentence of this essay - nurse shortages results in nurses being given unrealistic workloads (DPE Resea...

showing that they graduated from a nursing education program approved by the Georgia Board of Nursing or from a nursing education ...

factors as culture and even spiritualism in patient care delivery. While at one time nursing was a discipline which concentrated ...

According to one research study, the top five reasons why nurses employ restraints are "disruption of therapies, confusion, fall p...

1999). Elderly patients who are alert, and not declared incompetent, have the right to refuse treatment, which includes turning or...

had to have gone through surgery (orthopedic, gynecological, urological, vascular) of at least twenty minutes in duration. They ha...

the needs of the dying and her work indicates that there are times when the most meaningful communication that a nurse can offer i...

of ear infection (Chronic otitis media, 2003). OM is a serious childhood illness because, if not properly treated, it can lead to ...

act as integral members of healthcare teams, provide direct and indirect patient care, and address central issues for patients, in...

legal errors (Fackelmann, 2002). Furthermore, the AMA study demonstrated that there is a direct statistical connection between th...

parameters of his perspective and goals, and, specifically, refers to the unique orientation of nursing. "Nurses encounter patient...

particular certified nurse-midwives-- continues to increase, these impediments linger to a certain extent, and may continue to aff...

interactions with their patients and with each other have. Kurt Lewins change theory holds that change is incremental. It occurs...

In twelve pages this paper presents the argument that nursing should be regarded not as a science but as an art. Ten sources are ...

The funding agency chosen for this program is the Childrens Aid Society, a nonprofit organization that has been dedicated to impro...

who suffer from cancer, arthritis, AIDS, multiple sclerosis or acute back pain are known to frequently turn to alternative medicin...

point that relatively few paid attention to it at all. In many respects, the same has occurred in the discussion of anythin...

already has been diagnosed as having some form of heart disease. In that sense, primary prevention is not possible. The goals of...

undergoes surgery for a hip arthroplasty 24 hours after admission. Twenty-four hours after surgery the nurses note that Mrs. Gale...

risk factor, but is of less consequence among those diabetics who pay close attention to their blood sugar levels, test often and ...

learned long ago the value of yet another Deming (1986) exhortation, that of continuous improvement. By definition, the concept i...

Working for the well-staffed working environment in itself is no small task, given the fact of the ongoing nursing shortage. The ...