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a mentor and/or a preceptor. Mentoring is the "process through which a relationship is established between an experienced indivi...

partners in the healthcare process. Through training and education, nurses learn to make decisions on multiple issues of patient c...

it comes to orders, medications, tests, transfers and so on. Another problem for both physicians and nurses is identifying all p...

a long period, have the opportunity to build relationships with them and are able to come to know the individual patients response...

the situation in which the health care is offered, that is, a clinic, a hospital or a physicians office. "Health" refers to a st...

nursing care over the past decade and how do they support the argument for a continuum of educational practices for nursing profes...

Rural Nurses, represented by registered nurse and practicing attorney Jacqulyn Hall, filed an amici curiae (friends of the court) ...

in death is a wise safeguard. In the early part of the twentieth century, rationalizations abounded in medical literature that def...

over the course of several years of research into the issue. Most styles also depend on an array of variables including "organiza...

In eleven pages this paper discusses legal issues of which nurses should be aware, lawsuit avoidance, and the importance of malpra...

Smith, et al. (2002) explain that their purpose "was to investigate the effects of therapeutic massage on selected outcomes relate...

legislation that authorizes a Nurse Licensure Compact (National Council of the State Boards of Nursing, Nurse Licensure Compact, 2...

Additionally, the model also "incorporates a life span continuum, where the individual passes from fully dependent at birth, to fu...

NAON recognizes that learning and developing professional is a life-long processes and it helps orthopedic nurses achieve the goal...

will--in all likelihood--result in a professional negligence suit, rather than criminal charges. Suits against nurses result from ...

This 3 page paper provides an overview of a nursing recommendation. This paper gives a number of reasons why the student would be...

(BNE:NPA, 2006). To investigate for heart disease was clearly indicated by physicians orders and, furthermore, Eddie failed to not...

Family crisis). However, society itself is made up of smaller units, of which the family is one, and therefore structural function...

move in concentric circles of caring--from individuals, to others, to community, to (the) world" (Vance, 2003). Caring science inv...

2005, p.165). In obese children, the number of fat cells present in the body can be as much as three times higher than in normal w...

perceived self-efficacy (Capik, 1998). JJ explained how Penders theory guides her priorities in establishing educational goals, ...

For example, in regards to nurse practitioners from other state, the law states, "The Board (meaning the Board of Nursing) may iss...

p. 311). Specifically, this study focused on discerning how indicators of the "psychosocial work climate" affected the frequency w...

nurse working on a medical unit at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center. According to Kodet, the only thing ...

the nursing theorists that have come after her (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003). The interactive model focuses on the significant of ...

secretary, should leave the ward when there were fewer than three children on the unit and work a second adult unit as well. He wa...

illustrates how she ignored the potential for causing harm when she increased the patients drugs; only after the medication had be...

potential for long term physiological complications as well as long-term emotional impacts. Not only does the type of care needed...

This 15 page paper discusses seven patients who suffer from various forms of mental illness, and argues that there may be an under...

In twelve pages problems within the community nursing landscape are discussed such as parent alteration and social isolation and t...