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in the 19th and early 20th century, the fact is even more remarkable. "Well and Strong and Young" Updike writes that in 1854 Bar...

Dixs problems with mental health may have inspired her passion for aiding those who were diagnosed as being mentally unstable or i...

This left Mee with little opportunity to connect with these patients as human beings and she started "to feel like a machine," whi...

creates a document that addresses the extent to which the program is in compliance with the standards for accreditation published ...

(Fawcett, 1995). Application of either model rests in large part on the appropriateness and completeness of nurse documentation (...

report, admissions, and emergency situations" (Griffin, 2003, p. 135). The rationale for this policy is that it protects the confi...

the ability of an institution to deliver quality, error-free care. At the Six Sigma level, there are roughly "3.4 errors per one m...

serve to mentor teens and provide socially positive guidance and support. Diagnostic and screening exams will also be available, b...

workplace is a critical component of occupational rehabilitation (Morrison, 1993). In one study it was found that employees of inj...

imagines that implementation of the practicum could take several different formats. For example, it may consist of formulating a c...

well with Watsons care model. Watson has seven assumptions, the first is that care is demonstrated in an interpersonal level (Geor...

evaluated stated that they are predominantly "hands-on learners." Eight of the 10 nurses evaluated stated they were hands-on lear...

reality of the profession. It needs a makeover much as it had in the 19th century in Brittan when nursing reformers struggled to h...

paternalistic approach that has been favored by physicians. Watsons theory stresses nurses should "honor anothers becoming, autono...

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

to individuals connected by a blood tie. However, to be a "family," members must "live in close contact, care for one another, an...

based on a research study that surveyed over 2,000 RNs who provide direct nursing care in three mid-western hospitals. This result...

recognized categories for APNs within this state (TBoN, 2006). The scope of practice for Tennessee APNs includes the legal abili...

practitioner surgeries are run by practice nurses, only making referrals to other members of the healthcare team when required, Th...

an advanced practice nurse. The benefits that a nurse midwife can bring to a first-time mother include information that the mothe...

Fifteen pages and 8 sources. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the information available about job opportunities fo...

definitions of community have emerged, with the consequence that, concurrently, definitions of health promotions have also evolved...

of the site is that it connects to numerous opportunities for continuing education and there is a page dedicated to this purpose. ...

have otherwise been a lingering existence in private homes or disreputable hospitals. Inasmuch as the nurse is "temporarily the c...

therapeutic manner (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003). This relationship may refer to a single individual, or the "person" may be a sma...

implementing the treatment regimen. 5. collaborating with other health care providers in determining the appropriate health care f...

(Green, 2004a). A travel nurse, on the other hand, is typically contracted to work a 13-week period, and this usually includes an ...

noted that cases of a rare lung infection, pneumocystis carinni pneumonia, had occurred in Los Angeles and also that three young m...

established that nurses are often involved in the "timely identification of complications," which, if acted upon swiftly, prevent ...

A pertinent issue to foreign nurse recruitment, as a method for alleviating the shortage of nurses in US hospitals, is the number ...