Essays 211 - 240
considering this economic downturn, the numbers of undergraduates pursuing nursing careers began to also decline. In 1991, Canada ...
learned long ago the value of yet another Deming (1986) exhortation, that of continuous improvement. By definition, the concept i...
Working for the well-staffed working environment in itself is no small task, given the fact of the ongoing nursing shortage. The ...
the disease as well as around the prevention of the spread of the causative organism to other individuals that come into contact w...
that the doctrine of informed consent is "hopelessly flawed--or at least misguided," as it is often not possible to truly inform ...
Sharon Bernier, RN, PhD and President of the National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing, points out that Aikens study also...
suggestions for future action in regards to this problem. Section A: Problem identification The Problem and its importance The G...
The metaparadigms of nursing represent common concepts that are accepted throughout the profession and across international bounda...
The act of faxing patient information to another care-providing organization or third-party payer comes under privacy regulations ...
In four pages this research paper examines nursing's metaparadigm in a consideration of concepts including nursing, health, enviro...
in decision making (Thomas Group, 2004). The leadership team appointed a steering committee to develop a plan for empowering nur...
In four pages this research paper argues that nursing's image needs to be changed and focuses on accomplishing this through the in...
how the quality of this relationship affects the therapeutic success of nursing interventions. Major concepts (adaptation) : Lite...
A nurses dedication and selflessness recall a mothers sacrifice and care (Dworkin, 2002). Furthermore, Dworking (2002) points out ...
declined as "educators, employers and others recognize the need for educational changes in nursing" (Bednash, 2000, p. 2985). Asso...
An effective and valuable nurse is one who has sound technical knowledge and experience in applying it, but who also is a superlat...
includes strategies that are designed to make the individual feel better, such as "exercise, spirituality, support groups and humo...
many people have these factors in common within their personal value sets, but I believe that the nurse possesses them in specific...
As this writer/tutor can only speculate on what the students personal values are, it is suggested that the student include a state...
draw on the fundamental concepts espoused by the metaparadigms. Nevertheless, each branch of nursing theory approaches the subjec...
evaluate nursing care and use research findings in clinical practice" (Barnsteiner, Wyatt and Richardson 165). This survey reveal...
departments (Courson, 2004). It isnt that nurses have not been serving in these roles, they have but today, nurses receive speci...
the importance of taking assessment from a number of different, relevant perspectives. For example, mentors who are conscious that...
also as a result of the environment in which they are cared for, where smoking is banned. Teaching patients may be seen as a funct...
in African American communities in though it has level off and is falling in other US populations (Dyer, 2003). Adolescents are am...
transformative perspective because Newman argues that rather than being diametrically opposed, disease and health are merely facto...
The concept of health also has undergone change over the years. It formerly referred to absence of disease, but now it generally ...
was perceived as merely the "handmaiden" of medicine, that is, a service that was there to facilitate the practice of the physicia...
have had ethical reservations about taking a patient off of life support, but she did not add to Lynns burden by interfering with ...
and Robinson, 2003). Another element complicating the problem is the fact that in the early 1990s, many hospitals restructured a...