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expectancy is increasing and more people are surviving serious illness and living longer with chronic illness. At the same time, t...

(2003) gives the example of an nurse assigned to a busy intensive care unit (ICU) began experiencing clear signs of traumatic stre...

the "niche were multiple members encounter and respond to disease and illness across the life course" (Denham, 2003, p. 143). Nurs...

nurses should understand these patients thoroughly, "who they are, where they live and with whom, their current health status and ...

either ill or injured, and therefore requires the aid of health care professionals. One might also feel that "person" underscores ...

"interactive, systems, and developmental" approaches (Tourville and Ingalls 21). The systems model of nursing perceives the meta...

12-21, live relatively sedentary lives, as they are not active enough to successfully maintain good health (Covelli, 2007). The in...

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...

college degree is now a requirement for all registered nurses. A nursing major is comprised of a diverse and challenging liberal ...

(Allmark, 2003, p. 4). Poststructuralism: This perspective takes a deconstructive view of structuralism and "sees inquiry as ine...

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

and * Student presentations (50.6 percent" (Burkemper, et al, 2007, p. 14). Less than one third of the courses surveyed indicat...

be increased substantially, of course, by those immigrants families who would likely be admitted to the country as well. The inte...

of nursing and by lobbying" both Congress and regulatory agencies in regards to healthcare issues that affect nursing (ANA, 2008)....

in the U.S. stands at 8.5 percent to over 14 percent, depending on the specific area of specialty (Letvak and Buck, 2008), by 2020...

relationships between self-care agency and the self-care demand" (Kumar, 2007, p. 106). Within the context of Self-Care Deficit ...

did you wonder about your stepfather being alive or dead? What you write may resemble the following: I was considered too young to...

entails job commitment and a resolution to not to waste time resisting change processes simply because they contradict the way in ...

proven to be the principal reason for nosocomial infections, that is, infections that are acquired after hospital admittance. Impo...

the stage of evaluation is being one mainly concerned with health-related assessment activities so that progress can be measured a...

planning evaluation to those patients, conducted or overseen by a registered nurse, social worker or other appropriately qualified...

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

concerns the how NP practice has been implemented in countries other than the US. The majority of research articles available in v...

to five-times the risk for CHD, which contrasts sharply with the double risk encountered in African American men. There is also a ...

rituals of this religion in order to offer quality care. They should know, for instance, that an Orthodox Jew is required to wash ...

Background/Review of Literature The eight articles/studies that constitute this literature review encompasses several key concept...

a peaceful death among terminal patients. HSBs of specific groups of any size - whether large or small - are positively related t...

in any other state must, as of January 1, 2008, have a masters or another advanced graduate degree in nursing (Phillips, 2005). Wi...

to proper interaction with culturally diverse patients: "These standards provide comprehensive definitions of culture, competence,...