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(Cunningham, 2008). Observed Results Cortez (2008) states that in the past, patients had been known to call 911 from their ...

2008). Further significant improvement is unlikely in the near future, however. Californias Efforts Governor Arnold Schwar...

own studies in numerous areas, such as formal logic, metaphysics, action theories, and to her readings of Aristotle, Aquinas and m...

awareness of the self within the context of the environment grows in association with each other in a manner that allows the indiv...

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 their results, the authors suggested nurse educators add more critical thinking exercises to their classroom curriculum. ...

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

particular condition because he at least is aware of his condition. About one-half of those with this disease are not as fortunat...

2001, p. 24). While the ancestors of many Americans of Czech extraction came to the US in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries...

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

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

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

individual, the eight values of the CNA Code provide a framework for guidance regarding nursing behavior. The Code states that the...

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...

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

nurse seeks to preserve any culture-specific aspect of the patients life everywhere possible. When some culturally-linked aspect ...

authors state that research "and theory are key underpinnings that guide safe, effective, and comprehensive" (p. 35) practice. As...

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

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

results from alcohol or drug misuse and which interferes with professional judgment and the delivery of safe, high quality care" (...

reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...

individuals personal integrity, which is defined as a "sense of worth which can be conserved through consideration of cultural, et...

prepared for this role" (McKenna, 1997, p. 87). Perhaps most significant of all was Florence Nightingales belief that env...

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

features of family life; That the families will develop different strengths and capabilities of promoting family growth and develo...

& Kantor-Kaufmann, 2002). The meso level of the ecological model looks at the role of institutions and organizations in shaping ...

bringing awareness of the impact of environmental factors. Nightingale may be argued as held back by her gender due to a social st...

prompts nurses to cultivate the "conscious intent to preserve wholeness; potentiate healing; and preserve dignity, integrity and l...

Intervention using Mishels theory facilitates the process of patients accepting the inevitability of uncertainty as a factor in th...

Got a Problem!" An executive administrator is presented with two organizational problems by a nursing manager: - A nurse, Sammie...