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

is still those are very disturbing numbers when one considers that the problem may be eliminated to some degree by the simple task...

In seven pages this paper examines why individuals entered the professional nursing profession and their motivations for remaining...

In seven pages this paper discusses Haiti's substandard health care and nursing. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

data because it is quick, can be administered cheaply and results are instantaneous in some instances. Before delving into the app...

a compulsory health insurance program for its elderly citizens (225). There are indications then that American circumstances, as ...

In five pages the cultural aspects of the nursing profession are considered in a discussion that while Canadian and U.S. nurses mi...

the same holds true about the theories with which these people are treated. In the United Kingdom, nurses specializing in forensi...

or state agencies may seek and implement studies. II. Nursing Home Care for the Elderly Whenever nursing home care is an...

How governments accomplish this purpose, of course, varies considerably. In Great Britain, the government via the National Health...

issues along a continuum of health and good health is defined as a "state of complete physical, mental and social well-being" (Ada...

goes way beyond the paradigm of nursing as simply a "handmaiden" to physicians. The nursing professional is required to know virtu...

(p. 835) among Medicaid residents of Massachusetts nursing homes between 1991 and 1994. This mixed method (i.e., quantitative as ...

to miscommunication. For example, in a busy hospital where there is a high degree of activity patients may be distracted and not e...

In five pages the effects of various health care practices and trends upon the nursing field are examined. Five sources are cited...

governor should strive to at least make a dent in the problem in the next four years. It seems that the most pertinent problems ar...

services. It was a clear presumption that womens contributions -- no matter how physically or mentally trying -- did not carry an...

industry and primary care access; homecare access; and the new legislation proposed in regards to the entire health human resource...

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

the most frequently reported intervention classifications for NPs were patient education, drug management, nutrition support, risk...

a list of advantages for patients, which include: * Greater coordination of services leads to higher quality care for the patient ...

which both of those impacts are important. The question of what statistics should be collected in a medical facility, however, is...

reporting and administrative reporting so that the owner can have confidence that HHH is providing superlative patient care and me...

change, understand the reasons for this change and hare a vision of the future" (Gokenbach, 2003, p. 8). The catch is that these g...

progress: ambiguity in definition and measurement of what leadership actually is; whether or not leadership has perceivable effect...

says that families have been sorely neglected as a great deal of nursing practice continues to focus on individuals (Denham, 2003)...

learned long ago the value of yet another Deming (1986) exhortation, that of continuous improvement. By definition, the concept i...

departments (Courson, 2004). It isnt that nurses have not been serving in these roles, they have but today, nurses receive speci...

moment to moment as the changing patterns of shifting perspectives weave the fabric of life through the human-universe interconnec...

These authors conducted a large study of 3,830 individuals consisting of 17.8 percent nurses, 21.8 percent physicians, 29.6 percen...