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and settings. Individuals reactions to the same stressors can be quite different, with one stressor creating significant stress r...

York University School of Nursing and became an advocate of the practice through her teaching of therapeutic touch techniques and ...

as we see advances in the world of telemedicine. INTRODUCTION The literature review of telemedicine articles is based on inform...

(2002). The purpose of this investigation is to provide an overview of the concept of immobility in medicine, with an emphasis on...

opportunity to do. The earliest nurses were to provide patient comfort and care for patients in the manner that physicians expect...

exist for generations. Though Nightingale promoted a professional demeanor, nursing was not something that most well-bred women w...

level work. An example is that the nurse practitioner can have his or her own practice under a doctors supervision. Still, they ma...

manual (Tullmann, 2002). The way ion which there was the absence of a common culture from which power bases were built (Tullmann, ...

"understanding the fit," Beyea and Nicoll (2000) point out that: "A clinical expert continually questions knowledge, constantly le...

Statistics expects that number to rise to more than one million in less than 20 years. The American Nurses Association and Monste...

the issue of work stress, noting that it is often difficult to strike a balance between beneficial and detrimental stress. Writin...

right to work doctrine is not necessarily the rule of employment. For instance, in Texas, an employee challenged her employers man...

the changes that have occurred since she founded modern nursing. "Florence Nightingale provided us with a framework, relevant tod...

in 2000, allowing a long comment period before the final rule was issued in February 2003. Five rules were published in 199...

and safety" (ANA, 2005). After all, if a nurse does not take steps to preserve her or his own safety, the nurse cannot adequately ...

lethal drug is given with the intent to bring about death, thus ending suffering" (28). Of course, there is a difference between ...

to physicians. Increasingly, "evidence-based guidelines are becoming codes of medical practice" (Healy, 2005; p. 54). Superficia...

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 ...

preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...

ensuring that a significant proportion of stroke victims survive and retain their independence. This is important not only from th...

One of the most valuable tools available to help ascertain this information is through an arson investigation, the "study of fire-...

the risk of medical errors, such as dispensing the wrong medication or the wrong dose (Nursing overtime, 2004). The study, which w...

the religious fervor generated by the teachings of "love and mercy" by Jesus Christ resulted in a dramatic increase in charitable ...

19th and early 20th centuries. Hughes and Romeo (1999) question the usefulness of education that does not address the growing div...

Leaders create the future rather than simply become its victims (Kerfoot, 1998). They are generally thinking several months ahead,...

the central problem is often the inappropriate use of unlicensed personnel in the workplace setting. Though nurse mangers are ins...

organisational changes fail at a rate of 29% (Maurer, 1997). Reengineering is higher at 30% and of most concern is the figure for ...

that if a society views social workers and their clients as somehow less desirable members of that society, and if they dont like ...

the very act of following the "law" (i.e., supply and demand) of economics now has exacerbated the shortage of nurses who also are...

first started to administer to the injured and the sick, the notion that nurses should be women has prevailed (Odendaul, 2004). T...