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is a term that refers to "a formal way of thinking (i.e. conceptualizing) about a process/system under study" (Conceptual Framewor...

interests and values considered and respected in the decision-making process" (Fly and Johnstone, 2002). This rationale is undoubt...

background of hospital RNs is a significant factor in providing quality nursing care, as this study showed that the level of educa...

are possess "awareness and intention," and can construct a sense of self-identity and meaning," which includes the ability to choo...

task forces, committees, and organizational projects," while also serving as "resources to other nurses to facilitate advancing sk...

quality and safety for the care they can expect to receive from nurses and midwives and other health professionals are the same" (...

individual family member are considered within this context (Friedman, Bowden and Jones 37). In analyzing the various theories th...

supply and the importance of fruit and vegetables in the patients diet. She authored over 200 books, reports and pamphlets on nurs...

nurses are part of this generation and a large majority of nurses are retiring. It has been estimated that 50 percent of the count...

Sometimes the ability to perform foot self-exams for follow-up education or acute illness (Nettles, 2005, p. 44). Additionally, ...

include an understanding of how insulin functions to control glucose levels and the interaction between variables that can affect ...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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 ...

have more opportunity to encounter difficulties involved in nursing the critically ill. "How frequently a given stressor occurs d...

In five pages this paper examines literature regarding the nurse's role in educating hospitalized patients on smoking cessation. ...

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

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

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

scientific investigation and treatment of trauma and/or death of victims of abuse, violence, criminal activity, and traumatic acci...

the incidence of the deaths that were preventable, and also developed the polar-area diagram as a way of demonstrating the impact ...

from an advanced practice nurse. Patients value the nurse practitioner (NP) as a trustworthy source of medical information that a...

relationships, in terms of power dynamics and the initiation and resolution of conflicts. Communication theory is, therefore, impo...