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partners in the healthcare process. Through training and education, nurses learn to make decisions on multiple issues of patient c...

a mentor and/or a preceptor. Mentoring is the "process through which a relationship is established between an experienced indivi...

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

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

move in concentric circles of caring--from individuals, to others, to community, to (the) world" (Vance, 2003). Caring science inv...

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 ...

such as medical history as well as their role in consultation and also in the way that preventative healthcare is delivered, the ...

nursing care over the past decade and how do they support the argument for a continuum of educational practices for nursing profes...

Rural Nurses, represented by registered nurse and practicing attorney Jacqulyn Hall, filed an amici curiae (friends of the court) ...

the situation in which the health care is offered, that is, a clinic, a hospital or a physicians office. "Health" refers to a st...

and continues to do so, over the past two decades, as it was first published in 1979 (Falk-Rafael, 2000). In formulating her theor...

member with a meaningful recovery experience? When did you first realize that you wanted to help others? Relating personal details...

Smith, et al. (2002) explain that their purpose "was to investigate the effects of therapeutic massage on selected outcomes relate...

legislation that authorizes a Nurse Licensure Compact (National Council of the State Boards of Nursing, Nurse Licensure Compact, 2...

Additionally, the model also "incorporates a life span continuum, where the individual passes from fully dependent at birth, to fu...

will--in all likelihood--result in a professional negligence suit, rather than criminal charges. Suits against nurses result from ...

NAON recognizes that learning and developing professional is a life-long processes and it helps orthopedic nurses achieve the goal...

in death is a wise safeguard. In the early part of the twentieth century, rationalizations abounded in medical literature that def...

out care. Though there is a need for health care providers as a whole to have a greater awareness of the diagnostic process for b...

support for the concept that effective leadership style is directly related to nursing job satisfaction (Kleinman, 2004a). These s...

This paper discusses Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and the role that nurses play in implementing and utilizing these record sy...

This paper considers the distinctions between non-physician practitioners and how these distinctions might affect Medicare reimbur...

could be called human biological life; or(2) human personal life that includes biological life but goes beyond it to include other...

This research paper discusses the effect that ageism has on health care provision for older adults. Twelve pages in length, eight ...

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

doctoral degree in Psychology and Education in 1969" (Pender, n.d.a). She found psychological research to be rigorous and methodo...

(Walsh, 2003; p. 22). The intended role is that of partner with an MD in providing direct patient care in terms of serving in rol...

issues of spirituality. In essence, the parish nurse has the ability to treat the whole patient, rather than only addressing symp...

nursing. Forchuk and Dorsay (1995) and Barker, Reynolds and Stevenson (1997) identify Hildegard Peplau as the first to apply nurs...