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

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

body. Though "the VG site has long been established as an optimal site, not all nurses use it" (Scott and Marfell-Jones, 2004; p....

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

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

several years. Psychologically, it has been found that individuals more actively involved with their own health care often fare m...

in the 19th and early 20th century, the fact is even more remarkable. "Well and Strong and Young" Updike writes that in 1854 Bar...

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...

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...

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...

stronger. The authors make no comment on whether any of the individuals were concerned about becoming dependent on their pa...

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

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, ...

affects specific individuals, but the future of society as a whole. As HIV infection has affected African American youth in greate...

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

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

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

the word alone that Watsons ideology is based not just upon clinical actions but upon the implementation of emotional availability...

money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely would no...

This left Mee with little opportunity to connect with these patients as human beings and she started "to feel like a machine," whi...

viewpoints that articulate their own unvoiced feelings toward their profession. For example, in a discussion in an online nursin...

led to alter his position. The old philosophers gave much attention to the issue of knowledge and epistemology. Aristotle ...

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

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

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 ...

As this writer/tutor can only speculate on what the students personal values are, it is suggested that the student include a state...

draw on the fundamental concepts espoused by the metaparadigms. Nevertheless, each branch of nursing theory approaches the subjec...

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

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