SEARCH RESULTS

makes the point that EBP involves more than simply utilize research evidence; and Penz and Bassendowski emphasize this point by s...

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...

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

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

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...

(BNE:NPA, 2006). To investigate for heart disease was clearly indicated by physicians orders and, furthermore, Eddie failed to not...

ethics are a part of the concern. The hospital should not accept a patient load that it cannot handle. Another example of an issue...

potential for long term physiological complications as well as long-term emotional impacts. Not only does the type of care needed...

secretary, should leave the ward when there were fewer than three children on the unit and work a second adult unit as well. He wa...

to work efficiently and effectively across cultural boundaries. This concept also encompasses not only the assumption that nurses,...

illustrates how she ignored the potential for causing harm when she increased the patients drugs; only after the medication had be...

This left Mee with little opportunity to connect with these patients as human beings and she started "to feel like a machine," whi...

affects specific individuals, but the future of society as a whole. As HIV infection has affected African American youth in greate...

the mountains in California, ride a horse in the Grand Canyon, volunteer in a cancer center, finish painting his house, attend his...

formulation with others, testing new behaviors, integrating this learning into "new, more satisfying behavior, and then using thes...

paradigms According to Parse (1987), the simultaneity paradigm of nursing offers a substantially different view worldview than th...

viewpoints that articulate their own unvoiced feelings toward their profession. For example, in a discussion in an online nursin...

effectiveness has been studied extensively, and that studies consistently conclude that NP-based care is comparable to that origin...

to take insulin only when his blood glucose level was above the value established by his physician. The nurse laid out all ...

for caring for the wounded (Holder, 2003). For the first time in American history, women were asked to leave their homes and act...

and can be applied in a variety of clinical settings, as well as in educational programs and research. Orems theory is bas...

must have at least some knowledge of the topic of discussion beforehand, or the discussion can disintegrate into an exercise in "p...

body. Though "the VG site has long been established as an optimal site, not all nurses use it" (Scott and Marfell-Jones, 2004; p....

evaluating information (including assumptions and evidence) related to the issue, considering alternatives ... and drawing conclus...

(Fawcett, 1995). Application of either model rests in large part on the appropriateness and completeness of nurse documentation (...

the business should listen to the majoritys complaints and seek to find a solution on which everyone can agree. If such agreement...

care system. Middaugh (2003) asserts that nursing management should provide emergency planning that spells out "what people should...

the medical profession as a whole. Nurses themselves face a number of concerns in the performance of their jobs in organ transpla...