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interests and values considered and respected in the decision-making process" (Fly and Johnstone, 2002). This rationale is undoubt...

York found that, in the past, ambulance diversions were a seasonal event. However, more recent research finds that diversional sta...

many of the findings of nursing research have little or no relevance to their daily practice. Im and Meleis (1999) cite several re...

information. These guidelines are also based on this researchers finding that self-care promotes the pediatric patients spiritual ...

with their illness decreases and their partners ability to help them with the process is impeded as well. Decreased communication...

for caring for the wounded (Holder, 2003). For the first time in American history, women were asked to leave their homes and act...

evaluating information (including assumptions and evidence) related to the issue, considering alternatives ... and drawing conclus...

care system. Middaugh (2003) asserts that nursing management should provide emergency planning that spells out "what people should...

affects specific individuals, but the future of society as a whole. As HIV infection has affected African American youth in greate...

formulation with others, testing new behaviors, integrating this learning into "new, more satisfying behavior, and then using thes...

have different concerns and worries which will need to be addressed prior to the tackling of the practical issues. The plan will...

several years. Psychologically, it has been found that individuals more actively involved with their own health care often fare m...

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

Colorado/Utah and 3.7 percent of the hospitalizations occurring in New York resulted incurred adverse events (Dunn 45). Death occu...

care. The team leader is responsible for overseeing and coordinating all of the elements of care and also delegates care of specif...

fairly positive towards the 12-hour shift, but the nursing educators were extremely negative. The teaching staff opposed the use o...

in this case for a variety of reasons (Chaguturu and Vallabhaneni, 2005). First of all, despite any financial incentives, it has b...

task forces, committees, and organizational projects," while also serving as "resources to other nurses to facilitate advancing sk...

quality and safety for the care they can expect to receive from nurses and midwives and other health professionals are the same" (...

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

Sometimes the ability to perform foot self-exams for follow-up education or acute illness (Nettles, 2005, p. 44). Additionally, ...

nurses are part of this generation and a large majority of nurses are retiring. It has been estimated that 50 percent of the count...

are possess "awareness and intention," and can construct a sense of self-identity and meaning," which includes the ability to choo...

supply and the importance of fruit and vegetables in the patients diet. She authored over 200 books, reports and pamphlets on nurs...

patient care (Hassmiller and Cozine, 2006). Some strategies proposed by RWJF for helping to decrease the tremendous workload on nu...

perspective, is viewed as "the optimal level of ones potential relating to the environment" (Tourville and Ingalls 22). For examp...

order to infer what theoretical framework is being utilized, and why such a framework is appropriate for the context. This parag...

the personal growth and learning of second year student nurses working within two surgical units. The clinical logs produced by th...

reproductive health, were assigned the task of creating a family genetic history, using the format of genogram. As this indicates,...

moved forward at a great pace, especially since the 1960s and 70s and the increased level of production, it remains at the investm...