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individuals belief, values, and membership in family and social groups. Brodie (2001) asserts that it is the hallmark of professio...

to believe that his strategy for paying the hospitals bill for treatment to be a sound one. He had sued the local trolley line (a...

can facilitate a different type of learning and examination, peer groups may allow an exploration with fewer confines groups with ...

synopsis will be provided for each of these articles and one article will selected for a more detailed discussion of how its findi...

Medical Center, 2002). It is estimated that 13 to 18 million adults suffer from incontinence at some time or other (Mercy Medical...

the near future, however. This presents potentially severe consequences for the economics of elder care. The stakeholders in this...

should be emphasized that some nurses see their function in a more spiritual manner. They take their role as a calling to help tho...

From this perspective, individuals can be viewed as open systems, in which energy is transformed within the body, gaining or losin...

will the organization finance those costs? How will current and future employees view the planned changes? Once senior man...

the abuse shed suffered - child molestation at the hands of a brutal stepfather, witnessing equally-brutal bestiality (they lived ...

over the age of 60 years in 1995, and that number will probably increase to about 1.2 billion (2002, p.1094) in 2025. Informatio...

or render physical care - she ministers to the whole person. The existence of suffering, whether physical, mental or spiritual is ...

right? Not as visible a cause as AIDS, nor as prevalent in the news as Cancer, Meningitis will be a difficult sell to this segmen...

therefore, not only an extensive history but it can be contended to be just as applicable in todays nursing practice as it was whe...

Peplau addressed the inherent relationship between nursing and counseling, contending that nurses uphold the important responsibil...

ethics and value of this research. Ethically and scientifically responsible nurses must realize that from a deontologic perspecti...

become stressed and this lowers morale. A nurse manager writes that at her hospital, her job has become overwhelming, but when dis...

indwelling foley and compression boot. Her dressing is dry and intact. She was discharged with Percocet 5mg q6. Analysis and Out...

therefore more attractive to those very human individuals filling its nursing positions. A mentoring program can help support tho...

the patient prior to his death. The nurse clearly felt the need to encourage the family to stay and spend as much time as possibl...

roles of nursing is direct patient care, and one of the seven essential AACN values is that of human dignity. In years past, dire...

field of nursing and in particular for nursing home facilities. Valid data could put pressure on nursing homes to hire an adequate...

in the profession. As long ago as 1990, at least one author was addressing in print the problems that hospitals were having not o...

unethical, or illegal practice of any person" (Erlen 67). But while it is a nurses duty to be a patient advocate, Beth should real...

health of the individual and to their success in recuperation. The Association for Spirit at Work is comprised of medical profess...

that make use of color, but even these efforts have not typically met with good response by patients or hospital administrators (S...

and case management. Maras shares the leadership of the nursing department with another individual at the VP level, L. McChesney....

disappear and remain at bay for a long while. The symptoms that the patient exhibits as well as physical examination are consiste...

The result is that "Suddenly there is great interest in how men and women talk to each other" (Woodard and House, 1997; p. 39), no...

absolute separation of duties and artificial formality intended to preserve hierarchy in attitude as well as fact. Physicians pro...