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to nursing practice in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), as the welfare of each high-needs baby is intrinsically tied to fami...

based on a research study that surveyed over 2,000 RNs who provide direct nursing care in three mid-western hospitals. This result...

that they are often asked to take care of more patients with higher acuity levels than they have in the past (Hassmiller and Cozin...

(2003) gives the example of an nurse assigned to a busy intensive care unit (ICU) began experiencing clear signs of traumatic stre...

the "niche were multiple members encounter and respond to disease and illness across the life course" (Denham, 2003, p. 143). Nurs...

expectancy is increasing and more people are surviving serious illness and living longer with chronic illness. At the same time, t...

the nurse is uncertain of which tasks are appropriate to delegation, as well as the skill level of UAPs, their reluctance becomes ...

"interactive, systems, and developmental" approaches (Tourville and Ingalls 21). The systems model of nursing perceives the meta...

endeavor. Nursing in any context requires a detailed knowledge of individual patients. Specifically, a forensic nurse will have a...

It is well known that there is a significant shortage of registered nurses that will continue to grow. There is a difference of op...

The paper begins by briefly identifying and explaining three of the standard change theory/models. The stages of each are named. T...

information. These guidelines are also based on this researchers finding that self-care promotes the pediatric patients spiritual ...

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

with their illness decreases and their partners ability to help them with the process is impeded as well. Decreased communication...

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

York found that, in the past, ambulance diversions were a seasonal event. However, more recent research finds that diversional sta...

concepts dominated the field of stress research beginning in the 1950s; however, by the 1970s, there was opposition to Selyes stre...

to work efficiently and effectively across cultural boundaries. This concept also encompasses not only the assumption that nurses,...

illustrates how she ignored the potential for causing harm when she increased the patients drugs; only after the medication had be...

the study intervention. Also, as yet, Cook is not clear about the purposes, aims or goals of the study. Literature Review While ...

potential for long term physiological complications as well as long-term emotional impacts. Not only does the type of care needed...

secretary, should leave the ward when there were fewer than three children on the unit and work a second adult unit as well. He wa...

Family crisis). However, society itself is made up of smaller units, of which the family is one, and therefore structural function...

p. 311). Specifically, this study focused on discerning how indicators of the "psychosocial work climate" affected the frequency w...

nurse working on a medical unit at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center. According to Kodet, the only thing ...

naturally create a prime source of psychic conflict for nurses, which would facilitate the development of burnout. Jenkins, Ellio...

the nursing theorists that have come after her (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003). The interactive model focuses on the significant of ...

2005, p.165). In obese children, the number of fat cells present in the body can be as much as three times higher than in normal w...

perceived self-efficacy (Capik, 1998). JJ explained how Penders theory guides her priorities in establishing educational goals, ...

For example, in regards to nurse practitioners from other state, the law states, "The Board (meaning the Board of Nursing) may iss...