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nurse practitioners how they could join the movement and help. The Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1989 included minimal reimbursem...

Prospective Payment System (PPS), reimbursement rates going to both hospitals and physicians have declined significantly. In react...

of literature pertaining to type 2 diabetes mellitus, begins by describing, summarizing and analyzing the study conducted by Barko...

risen in the US population, there has been corresponding increase in the incidence of diabetes mellitus, which is associated with ...

The SCDNT regards the meta-paradigm of "Nursing" as an art, that is, a "helping service," but also as a technology ("Dorothea," 20...

in the overall quality of care delivered by community health nurses (CHNs) is providing end-of-life care that is holistic and cong...

drivers" than do states that do not require test automatic testing (Murden and Unroe, 2005, p. 22). Most states do set standards f...

The metaparadigms of nursing represent common concepts that are accepted throughout the profession and across international bounda...

(1999), research shows that the level of education reached by an RN contributes to a sense of professional autonomy and those nurs...

need of treatment following tours in Rwanda, the Balkans and Somalia" (Auld). Mental health problems in regards to soldiers retu...

increase; third-party payers strive to keep payments as low as possible; individuals seek to enhance performance or gain the great...

ratio, the mortality rates are 44 percent lower (Degree-level nurses, 2005). Substantiating this research, a Canadian study cond...

significantly as ethnicity and can encompass many different forms of beliefs. Spirituality plays a major role in how individuals...

to reach the disease" (Colwell; 2). The author also examines aspects of surgical treatment, indicating that a particular type of s...

minority groups. They are frequently poor and have little education. Scrandis, Fauchald and Radsma describe a "Charlottes Web of C...

however, Jones requested an ethics consult on the case due to the fact that Johns psychosocial evaluation had caused Jones to have...

authors state that research "and theory are key underpinnings that guide safe, effective, and comprehensive" (p. 35) practice. As...

and religious background and beliefs, as well as how the health/illness continuum works within the framework of their life. "Env...

with standardized procedures, health codes, and licensing requirements, all of which have been initiated to support a level of pro...

professionals has come into view as an element of this discourse. Nurse professionals, who once worked directly under the wing ...

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

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

(Bliss-Holtz, Winter and Scherer, 2004). In hospitals that have achieved magnet status, nurses routinely collect, analyze and us...

awareness of the self within the context of the environment grows in association with each other in a manner that allows the indiv...

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

objective in conducting their study was to "describe the experience of men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer and their wives,...

specifically state that their objective in conducting their study was to "describe the experience of men who are diagnosed with pr...

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

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

activities" (Orems Self-Care Model Concepts) that patients need to undertake to meet their own health care needs on a routine basi...