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are possess "awareness and intention," and can construct a sense of self-identity and meaning," which includes the ability to choo...

supply and the importance of fruit and vegetables in the patients diet. She authored over 200 books, reports and pamphlets on nurs...

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

interests and values considered and respected in the decision-making process" (Fly and Johnstone, 2002). This rationale is undoubt...

Sometimes the ability to perform foot self-exams for follow-up education or acute illness (Nettles, 2005, p. 44). Additionally, ...

task forces, committees, and organizational projects," while also serving as "resources to other nurses to facilitate advancing sk...

the factors that make nursing unique The Department of Nursing at California State University at Fresno defines nursing as a "uni...

The report is based on a case study provided by the student. Leadership theory is reviewed in order to define what is meant by lea...

Advances in technology have changed everything from how patients are diagnosed to acute care to managing chronic illnesses. Techno...

In recent decades, organizational theory has become a booming business, with researchers and writers postulating all kinds of reas...

neighbor who incurred a head injury and did not want to go to a hospital because she lacked the funds to pay for treatment. Wardan...

profession is very rewarding, if at times very difficult and even heartbreaking. This paper describes the Good Samaritan College o...

percent of al cardiac surgery patients (Brantman and Howie, 2006). While this postoperative condition is typically well-tolerated ...

in this case for a variety of reasons (Chaguturu and Vallabhaneni, 2005). First of all, despite any financial incentives, it has b...

nurse working on a medical unit at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center. According to Kodet, the only thing ...

p. 311). Specifically, this study focused on discerning how indicators of the "psychosocial work climate" affected the frequency w...

the nursing theorists that have come after her (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003). The interactive model focuses on the significant of ...

naturally create a prime source of psychic conflict for nurses, which would facilitate the development of burnout. Jenkins, Ellio...

are necessary for patient survival" (Kelley, 2005, p. 2). When the blood volume in the body is too low, it activates "compensatory...

a mentor and/or a preceptor. Mentoring is the "process through which a relationship is established between an experienced indivi...

partners in the healthcare process. Through training and education, nurses learn to make decisions on multiple issues of patient c...

incredibly shallow, supercilious and caught within such a fierce atmosphere of competitiveness that they use the millions at the d...

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

This 3 page paper provides an overview of a nursing recommendation. This paper gives a number of reasons why the student would be...

For example, in regards to nurse practitioners from other state, the law states, "The Board (meaning the Board of Nursing) may iss...

2005, p.165). In obese children, the number of fat cells present in the body can be as much as three times higher than in normal w...

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...

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