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relationships between self-care agency and the self-care demand" (Kumar, 2007, p. 106). Within the context of Self-Care Deficit ...

continuing professional education, Kavanaugh sees such laws as limiting and eroding the "defining characteristics of the professio...

report, admissions, and emergency situations" (Griffin, 2003, p. 135). The rationale for this policy is that it protects the confi...

the ability of an institution to deliver quality, error-free care. At the Six Sigma level, there are roughly "3.4 errors per one m...

college degree is now a requirement for all registered nurses. A nursing major is comprised of a diverse and challenging liberal ...

(Allmark, 2003, p. 4). Poststructuralism: This perspective takes a deconstructive view of structuralism and "sees inquiry as ine...

serve to mentor teens and provide socially positive guidance and support. Diagnostic and screening exams will also be available, b...

to five-times the risk for CHD, which contrasts sharply with the double risk encountered in African American men. There is also a ...

12-21, live relatively sedentary lives, as they are not active enough to successfully maintain good health (Covelli, 2007). The in...

expressing his or her misery. Such caregivers may have experienced patients who are as likely to cry out, thrash around, or simply...

far removed from the days when a country could independently govern within its own boundaries in oblivion to what was occurring on...

or understanding when the staff or the doctors have to move on to the next client. Many patients complain that their healthcare pr...

the realization of the "dehumanizing" of patients that led to them being referred to as "Bed x," "Case x" or some other nameless, ...

gives the appearance of increased attention to theory and evidenced-based nursing in an atmosphere of caring for the individual. ...

2002 and allowed for a National Nurse Service Corps program to provide funding for tuition, expenses and a stipend to those nursin...

when Coco Chanel made the look desirable. Since that time, legions of youth and adults have sought to possess the "perfect" tan, ...

from pain that began after radiation therapy that caused nerve damage (Fischman, 2000). After receiving therapy at a pain clinic, ...

the chaos," she said (Serafini 1490). This nurse further stated that sometimes ER nurses are called to the intensive care unit for...

so much as for the enjoyment of others, for the pride he could have when looking at what he achieved through the eyes of others. T...

techniques or theories as they pertain to the medical world, and it is as if the prison setting is the last place where these tech...

knowledge required and they may even be able to demonstrate an ability to apply the knowledge in their jobs but competence is anot...

of the patients in a single unit will be assigned to one RN; the other half will be assigned to another. Another will be availabl...

Today, the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that it is no longer only added stress and long hours for those...

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

This paper offers answers to three nursing questions that address the role of nurse practitioners, the Consensus Model for APRN Re...

This research paper addresses a variety of issues that concern earning a master's in nursing science and with nursing leadership. ...

This paper presents a hypothetical example of how a student might wish to express her nursing ambition. The principal focuses of t...

This paper discusses the problem of the nursing shortage and its impact on nursing recruitment and retention. Six pages in length,...

This paper pertains to two middle range nursing theories, Kolcaba's comfort theory and nursing intellectual capital theory, and th...

to communicate with the customers, but for some industries, such as power, water and communications such as telephone there may ne...