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prepared for this role" (McKenna, 1997, p. 87). Perhaps most significant of all was Florence Nightingales belief that env...

they visited, and some tended to visit fairly frequently (Demling et al, 2002). Patients in general were very positive about thei...

In three pages this research paper discusses how humor can be a modality that assists nurses in patient care as well as self care....

that is, whether it will spread (metastasize) and what symptoms that it is likely to cause (Cancer diagnosis, 2005). The term "sec...

patient to re-establish the self-care capacity. Orems model defines a "self-care deficit" as when a patients condition interferes ...

physical and social limits, functional components, and feedback mechanisms" (Reicherter and Billek-Sawhney, 2003). With regard t...

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

it is discovered that her death was called by a massive pulmonary embolism. Two years later, her husband files suit against the n...

culturally competent care. Well examine what the literature has to say about such standards and, with this background, and an unde...

elderly population is finding it difficult to meet their own financial needs and have few choices but to pool resources with other...

there is very little information about predisposes people to these episodes (Swann, 2006). Therefore, for the most part, nursing a...

is defined differently than it is for healthier people; the terminally ill may consider that they have a good quality of life if t...

a "collaborative quality improvement project" that focuses on PUs in nursing homes as its primary focus (Lynn, et al, 2007). QIOs,...

why. First of all, the student researching this topic does not offer any indication of what specific "everyday life issues" were...

As stated, the pet food industry already generates more than $53 billion in sales; accessories and nonessential services (i.e., ex...

economic positions (McGinn and Murr, 2006). All of this development in the past several years has led to a restatement of Shannon...

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

The purpose - indeed the entire study - does not specifically identify variables that can be labeled as independent. It is not an...

nursing supervision is to provide support for nurse practitioner in a range of issues, developing their own identity as well as sk...

potential for a greater degree of efficiency. The question is whether not there should be a universal healthcare system adopted in...

Agency for Healthcare and Quality as "doing the right thing, at the right time, in the right way, for the right person-and having ...

equipment was very important to them. It needed to be safe and there needed to be a lot of it. These parents have read to their so...

personnel needs of the PCT and develop a strategic development plan so that the needs of the PCT are met with the ultimate aim of ...

actionable and for the bringing of cases to be controlled. We may also argue that they also serve a purpose in restricting and cre...

to the bill as did many nursing executives, arguing that there was sufficient legislation already on the books that dealt with sta...

Today, the theories of Orem, Roy, Neuman, Rogers, King, and others seem to be more popular than older theories such as those of Fl...

a good nurse ... Id spend more time with their families. If I were a good nurse, I would ..." (Williams, 2001; p. 24ac2)....

health information is pivotal to the efforts of practitioners in promoting health, changing behaviors and attitudes, and preventin...

level of problems for inpatients was 20.9% compared to only 8.4% for outpatients (Wilson et al, 2002). When asked to rate the serv...

indicator of quality, there remains a dearth of published research addressing the issue. There are some studies that address wait...