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that have affected my choice of working as a nurse. Of course many people have these factors in common within their personal valu...

2008, p. 208). The purpose of the study designed by Sorensen and Yankech (2008) was to investigate whether a "research-based, th...

patient was in a significant amount of pain, he made jokes throughout his entire stay, as family members remained at his bedside. ...

some determining the study was inconclusive, others saying certain interventions should be made universal and still others stating...

begins with "orientation," which is a period in which the nurse and the patient become acquainted. The relationship then proceeds ...

with humanity, that is, to be humanistic in ones orientation refers to the principles of humanism, which has been given a variety ...

This paper addresses the new and growing field of forensic nursing. The author contends that forensic nursing is a necessity in t...

for my patients. Personal philosophy of nursing: Tourville and Ingalls (2003) offer a fascinating and very apt analogy to descri...

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...

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

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

include an understanding of how insulin functions to control glucose levels and the interaction between variables that can affect ...

expected only to continue for several years to come. Then, growth will begin to decline in response to fewer numbers of people re...

Stimulus for developing of the students personal philosophy The process of nursing education exposes students to diverse clinical...

a peaceful death among terminal patients. HSBs of specific groups of any size - whether large or small - are positively related t...

to nursing practice in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), as the welfare of each high-needs baby is intrinsically tied to fami...

Hospital. The purpose here is to describe and evaluate the restructuring of St. Vincents ICU to gain one-on-one nursing and so im...

when nurses are needed the most, which is when we are ill (line 12). This is when "Nurses come through, with their care and goodwi...

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

individual is an "open system," which includes "distinct, but integrated physiological, psychological and socio-cultural systems" ...

in detail the theories of Betty Neuman, Madeleine Leininger and Callista Roy and, also, describe direct applications of each theor...

p. 144). Each has value, but each exists with a paradox. The more abstract theories are more easily generalized, but more diffic...

In seven pages this paper examines how the motivation theories of Douglas McGregor, W. Edwards Deming, and Albert Bandura can be a...

This essay offers an analysis of the nursing profession. Specifically, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats are ident...

There are dozens of nursing theories that have been developed over decades. Each has its own value and each is beneficial for nurs...

An effective and valuable nurse is one who has sound technical knowledge and experience in applying it, but who also is a superlat...

First seen as an occasional point of minor and temporary discomfort, there seemed to be other, more "important" issues to assess. ...

are in the ICU and on IABP therapy. The literature on this subject indicates that monitoring should include the "patients left ra...

translated into the welsh language due to the high level of Welsh speakers in some of the target areas. 3. Methodology To writhe...

Leadership and management while related are two distinctively different concepts. Leadership can be discerned from simply manageme...