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and nursing literature abounds with how such theories influence and guide nursing practice in all of its varied aspects. For exa...

and Ingalls (2003) describe the four metaparadigms allegorically as the "roots" of a living tree, emphasizing that the metaparadig...

are under our care. By promoting healthy and better communication between us and the patient, we do not need to involve the famil...

The concept of health also has undergone change over the years. It formerly referred to absence of disease, but now it generally ...

and Robinson, 2003). Another element complicating the problem is the fact that in the early 1990s, many hospitals restructured a...

today will reach retirement age within 15 years (Mee and Robinson, 2003). At the same time, fewer people are entering nursing, as ...

less people living in rural communities and the "more remote geographical regions" of Australia than in urban locales (Bushy 104)....

promotion can address a variety of nursing clients in a variety of circumstances. For example, Richardson (2002) acknowledges that...

chosen. The Metropolitan Museum of Art indicates two events that would be appropriate for a humanities-oriented fieldtrip geared...

self-knowledge (Simpson, 2004). While anecdotal evidence is not regarded as conclusive, the experience of individual nurses in reg...

numbers of young students came to believe that perhaps nursing would provide an outlet for caring natures as well as support a fam...

age. Therefore, the patient population is increasing. This factor is also influenced by the fact that that the huge lump in the Am...

are RNs who are "prepared, through advanced education and clinical training, to provide preventive and acute health-care services"...

Nightingale as power-crazed and iron-willed. Salvage (2001) tends to believe that these criticisms of Nightingale reflect lingerin...

counselor, often causing even greater tension than what already exists and drawing away from the ability to forge an alliance. Se...

students values : This calls for personal reflection. A question that the student can ask herself/himself is how he or she might h...

be vulnerable to abuse or neglect for a variety of reasons and in a variety of situations, which range from home care to care in r...

situation. As a provider of care, it is the role of the community health nurse to address the needs of Centerville adolescents i...

This nurse that leaving the acute care facility had to do with "When youre constantly short-staffed and feel your managers arent s...

indicated by Carter, census also frequently plays a vital role in this regard for nursing managers. Other factors that I considere...

A 3 page essay in which the writer offers a guide to writing about how a nurse's philosophy pertaining to the nature of humanity i...

frees him from this indignity and travesty of life by smothering him with a pillow and then escapes from the asylum (One Flew, 199...

all aspects of professional nursing and a nurses obligation to patients to provide ethical and professional quality care. The firs...

developing countries, while it alleviating the nursing shortage in the industrialized countries to a certain degree, is creating a...

Domain concepts Health: The traditional understanding of "health" is that is the absence of illness and/or injury. However, for ...

embarrassment in front of others, withheld pay increases, and termination" (Marriner-Tomey, 2004, p. 118). While conferring reward...

can only be expected to escalate in the near future. Therefore, issues of affordability, in relation to equitable healthcare servi...

has always been about the development of autonomy, equality, social justice and democracy" (Mezirow, 1999). The transformative app...

the politics found in hospitals and other environments (Reuters, 2008). Supply and demand is always a major driver of salaries in...

nurses which makes job searching easier. Registered nurses are in great demand and it is thought that there will be a significa...