YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Future of Nursing
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are RNs who are "prepared, through advanced education and clinical training, to provide preventive and acute health-care services"...
(p. 835) among Medicaid residents of Massachusetts nursing homes between 1991 and 1994. This mixed method (i.e., quantitative as ...
well. This study also appears to be sound scientifically. Its primary means of data analysis is statistical; the methods b...
to changes which in turn can result in higher costs and reduced perceived quality of care. Primary nursing is not a new con...
The concept of health also has undergone change over the years. It formerly referred to absence of disease, but now it generally ...
and Robinson, 2003). Another element complicating the problem is the fact that in the early 1990s, many hospitals restructured a...
today will reach retirement age within 15 years (Mee and Robinson, 2003). At the same time, fewer people are entering nursing, as ...
to identify and to relate in terms of actual patient care. Ida Jean Orlando created a conceptual view of the nursing process whic...
In four pages this research paper examines nursing's metaparadigm in a consideration of concepts including nursing, health, enviro...
in which nurses had to request perceptions for certain types of dressing was a waste of time and resources, which in turn impacted...
Nightingale as power-crazed and iron-willed. Salvage (2001) tends to believe that these criticisms of Nightingale reflect lingerin...
Empirical research ahs consistently reported that when communication between the two professions is good, which includes doctors ...
students values : This calls for personal reflection. A question that the student can ask herself/himself is how he or she might h...
be vulnerable to abuse or neglect for a variety of reasons and in a variety of situations, which range from home care to care in r...
This nurse that leaving the acute care facility had to do with "When youre constantly short-staffed and feel your managers arent s...
situation. As a provider of care, it is the role of the community health nurse to address the needs of Centerville adolescents i...
and Ingalls (2003) describe the four metaparadigms allegorically as the "roots" of a living tree, emphasizing that the metaparadig...
Under her wing, Nightingale took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to health. ...
and nursing literature abounds with how such theories influence and guide nursing practice in all of its varied aspects. For exa...
are under our care. By promoting healthy and better communication between us and the patient, we do not need to involve the famil...
study also examined the availability of information resources available to the RN respondents (both at work and at home). Their fi...
(Domrose, 2001). However, current trends have developed that have greatly expanded the scope of med-surg nursing, which includes a...
But, it also refers to the fact that nurses "shape and transform the environment" as well as offer care within the context of an e...
the associates course of study to address the very things that can make the greatest difference in patient outcomes and satisfacti...
p. 144). Each has value, but each exists with a paradox. The more abstract theories are more easily generalized, but more diffic...
(Snyder and Lindquist, 2001). Under this philosophy the social factors and even the spiritual factors of an individuals existen...
that have affected my choice of working as a nurse. Of course many people have these factors in common within their personal valu...
during which time they reviewed data regarding the patient and made adjustments to the clinical care program. The advanced practic...
The ever-changing nature of Americas health care system has introduced a chaos in a population that for more than a century has be...
This paper addresses the new and growing field of forensic nursing. The author contends that forensic nursing is a necessity in t...