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directly with families in their home, aiding them with complex care situations (Denham, 2003). How has the family changed? In 20...

driving distance, visiting with friends, and participating in a variety of church activities. Also, both children play sports whic...

3). In regards to the change process itself, Kurt Lewin, in his pioneering work on this topic in the 1950s, has pointed out that...

Batesons cybernetics model (Niolan, 2002). Tucker (2002, PG) notes that to Bateson familial problems exist in a system of units a...

the controls may be seen as the result of a highly developed and complex system. Two countries that may be placed into this...

to promote schools, schools where medical pursuits were blended with the ecclesiastical (Draper, 1992). These schools would ultima...

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

students with concepts and ideas that are presented in a disorganized fashion (Stein, Carmine and Dixon, 1998). When this occurs, ...

result in improvements (Mintzberg et al, 2008; Reed et al, 1996). Defining TQM is difficult, there is no standard definiti...

their practices for lapses in technique, identify areas of improvement, and continue to grow as professionals. This paper will pre...

take if he or she wants to provide care in a rural context. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Social Functioning When social wo...

and by 1867 Joseph Lister had introduced to role of antiseptics by his practice of spraying surgical instruments with carbolic aci...

Science and practice of psychotherapy have been at odds for decades. Each has different goals: knowledge for its own sake or knowl...

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

This paper analyzes an article by Suzanne B. Johnson that discusses the paradigm shift in health care away from the biomedical mod...

the tool and consider what factors should be considered when looking at undertaking environmental scanning the first stage is to d...

reflect not the leadership skills themselves, but the way that the leader chooses to use them. In the commercial environment lea...

in the 1980s by a "group of medical educators at McMasters University in Ontario, Canada" (Haneline 2007, p. 3). This group made t...

age that are frequently expressed within Western society evolve, at least partially, from the changes in social status that occur ...

concerns the how NP practice has been implemented in countries other than the US. The majority of research articles available in v...

and * Student presentations (50.6 percent" (Burkemper, et al, 2007, p. 14). Less than one third of the courses surveyed indicat...

in any other state must, as of January 1, 2008, have a masters or another advanced graduate degree in nursing (Phillips, 2005). Wi...

rituals of this religion in order to offer quality care. They should know, for instance, that an Orthodox Jew is required to wash ...

time to actively conduct a research study, lack of time to read current research, nurses do not have time to read much of the rese...

percent of al cardiac surgery patients (Brantman and Howie, 2006). While this postoperative condition is typically well-tolerated ...

did you wonder about your stepfather being alive or dead? What you write may resemble the following: I was considered too young to...

verifies old knowledge (Wilkerson, 1998). As this suggests, the continuation of scholarly advances in the development of nursing t...

makes the point that EBP involves more than simply utilize research evidence; and Penz and Bassendowski emphasize this point by s...

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

background of hospital RNs is a significant factor in providing quality nursing care, as this study showed that the level of educa...