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drugs and to administer those drugs in a manner that is beneficial to our patients as well as being put into a positions where we ...

for APNs. One such path is to be a nurse anesthetist, who is a licensed APN who is considered to be using personal professional ju...

This involves intensive, one-on-one teaching, which enables autistic children to learn the intricacies of behaviors or skills via ...

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

many of the findings of nursing research have little or no relevance to their daily practice. Im and Meleis (1999) cite several re...

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 ...

In the meantime, I plan to study teaching strategies and rationale, and also expand my personal travel experiences. Today as neve...

time to actively conduct a research study, lack of time to read current research, nurses do not have time to read much of the rese...

Dr. McCullough is "Director of the Sexual Health and Male Fertility and Microsurgery Programs at New York University School of Med...

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

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

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

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...

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...

lawyers, uncaring nurses and pedophile clergy is to cut back on scientific research--a tenuous conclusion at best. Where the art...

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...

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

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

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

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

should be political informed by drawing on a variety of sources for information; vote for the candidates and/or ballot issues that...

to proper interaction with culturally diverse patients: "These standards provide comprehensive definitions of culture, competence,...

these reforms. The data revealed a "sense of tension and conflict between nurses traditional values, roles and responsibilities ...

the profession of nursing has developed some basic ideas that serve as the foundation that guides all subsequent professional prac...

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

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...