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(2003) gives the example of an nurse assigned to a busy intensive care unit (ICU) began experiencing clear signs of traumatic stre...

nurses should understand these patients thoroughly, "who they are, where they live and with whom, their current health status and ...

expectancy is increasing and more people are surviving serious illness and living longer with chronic illness. At the same time, t...

either ill or injured, and therefore requires the aid of health care professionals. One might also feel that "person" underscores ...

the nurse is uncertain of which tasks are appropriate to delegation, as well as the skill level of UAPs, their reluctance becomes ...

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

This involves intensive, one-on-one teaching, which enables autistic children to learn the intricacies of behaviors or skills via ...

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

with their illness decreases and their partners ability to help them with the process is impeded as well. Decreased communication...

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

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...

York found that, in the past, ambulance diversions were a seasonal event. However, more recent research finds that diversional sta...

illustrates how she ignored the potential for causing harm when she increased the patients drugs; only after the medication had be...

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

to work efficiently and effectively across cultural boundaries. This concept also encompasses not only the assumption that nurses,...

the study intervention. Also, as yet, Cook is not clear about the purposes, aims or goals of the study. Literature Review While ...

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...

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...

it comes to orders, medications, tests, transfers and so on. Another problem for both physicians and nurses is identifying all p...

as well as those studies that have suggested broadening students exposure to families and children with special needs. This discus...

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...

of the patient experience" (Engebretson 20). The background provided by a large, close-knit family means that, from childhood, I h...

in nursing educators aged 36 to 45 (Lewallen, et al, 2003). To complicate matters further, recent statistics show that nurses wh...

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

much broader in its application. It is this broadness that allows nurses to reach across religious lines and distinctions. In a su...