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a little less than a third of them were under the age of 40 (Meadows, 2002, p. 46). This offered conclusive proof that number of ...

improve it, then nursing can truly be an invaluable profession to choose. This leads us to the reality of helping people. Perha...

reveal a steady growth in the number of nurses joining unions due to discontent" (Blankenheim 2001, p. 13). They are doing so to l...

achieved that the critical care nurse may address the bio-psycho-social implications of the event (Alfafara and Hedges, 1996). Fur...

At the heart of nursing is the nurse-patient relationship, which provides the foundation for nursing care (Patusky, 2003). This r...

risk factor, but is of less consequence among those diabetics who pay close attention to their blood sugar levels, test often and ...

Conroy and Nottoli (1999) report the case of Henry, an irascible octogenarian who easily was the most difficult patient in the ski...

cross to bear and they would be shamed to bring it to someone else. The healthcare worker must not attempt to alter the patients r...

Bell (2000) reports that when an Australian hospital instituted shared governance, nurse managers responded "by developing a teamw...

undergoes surgery for a hip arthroplasty 24 hours after admission. Twenty-four hours after surgery the nurses note that Mrs. Gale...

laboratory specialists to obtain the appropriate level of anticoagulation independent of related laboratory reagents. Because the...

In five pages a 2001 article by Sarah Jo Brown on the relationship between patient outcomes and nurse staffing according to a stud...

In addition, among hospitalized patients over 65, CHF is the leading hospital admission diagnosis. In 1988 alone, it accounted fo...

Review Before focusing specifically on the impact of workplace violence on nurses, there are certain basic facts that should be u...

to insure that nurses continually perform their duties in the most competent and constructive manner (Cain, 2001). The establishm...

long been an integral component to the standard of care provided at hospitals, nursing homes, home care and other situations where...

current literature, which includes existing nursing journals and the WEB sites conducted by the American Association of Nurses and...

nursing home chains. As a result, there have been a number of highly publicized defaults such as that of Integrated Health Service...

In eight pages this paper examines the skills that are necessary for nurse to exert effective leadership. Seven sources are cited...

(called IgE) (ONeill, 1990). This then sticks to other cells such as the mast cells or the basophils, this is a chain reaction as ...

the medical team with which these patients have surrounded themselves. It is the patients responsibility to cooperate and do ever...

Emergency rooms are, at least in many cases, the primary health care provider to the underinsured and uninsured patient (Isenstein...

and empowerment must be mutually exclusive. Falk (1995) describes empowerment as a more contemporary concept than advocacy, and...

In nine pages this paper examines causes, symptoms, and results of patient stress in a nursing overview that includes the servant ...

governor should strive to at least make a dent in the problem in the next four years. It seems that the most pertinent problems ar...

and the directives of the medical environment. For over two decades, for example, the health care industry has recognized a decli...

the condition. More frequently it is the healthcare system which is both exposed to the condition and thus responsible for detect...

In six pages this tutorial presents information on how to create a nursing instruction plan for how wounds can be self treated. F...

quality of a patients life, (4) implementing managed care policies that threaten quality of care, and (5) working with unethical/i...

In a paper consisting of six pages the argument is presented that nurses should be paid not on their level of education but rather...