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cope with ethical situations primarily from experience and only minimally from formal education, which leaves novice nurses with "...

these factors might be important with regard to complexity, such systems also have to exhibit stability or they could not exist (C...

Yet both organizations also observe that, sometimes, it is necessary to use seclusion and restraint, as a last resort, in order to...

definitions of community have emerged, with the consequence that, concurrently, definitions of health promotions have also evolved...

In fifteen pages this paper examines how the worth of Sigmund Freud's theories can be measured in these works by Virginia Woolf. ...

some determining the study was inconclusive, others saying certain interventions should be made universal and still others stating...

change the position before completing three years of clinical practice (MacKusick and Minick, 2010). This research article is very...

This research paper pertains to the Montefiore Medical Center's Mission, Values and Philosophy statement. The writer compares thes...

of Virginia experienced something of a "rude awakening" with the realization that the students graduating from its high schools we...

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

gentry (Vaughn, 2004). In other words, the Chesapeake, as Englands first major experiment in North American colonization, was a "t...

as a therapeutic relationship between patient and nurse (Frisch and Kelley, 2002). Other theorists since that time have examined t...

defined relationships and also includes an interdependency between such and the surrounding environment. Systems theory also embra...

In three pages this paper discusses recent legislation in WV that has either been enacted or is pending. Four sources are cited i...

particular interest, given the topic of vision, is the PAIR program in the state of Virginia. This program offers a cooperative re...

The metaparadigms of nursing represent common concepts that are accepted throughout the profession and across international bounda...

the 16th century, tobacco was already considered something of great worth. One author, Thomas Hariot, back in 1590, wrote A Briefe...

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...

all aspects of nursing. While the prime relationship in nursing is the one between the nurse and patient, relationships between nu...

Aesthetic, the need for beauty, order and symmetry (Huitt, 2004). 7. Self-actualization is a plateau not all people reach. At this...

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

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

I replied that I could develop a program with her supervision, that nurses were more interested in furthering their training than ...

not money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely woul...

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

36). Both a therapeutic and social relationship are featured in the film Good Will Hunting (1997). The protagonist in the film, ...

old signs of questionable care still apply, however. Unexplained injury or falls, the occurrence of pressure sores, and evidence ...

they are working in the field now indicates that they understand the concepts and were successful in completing the ranges of stud...