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

background of hospital RNs is a significant factor in providing quality nursing care, as this study showed that the level of educa...

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

individual family member are considered within this context (Friedman, Bowden and Jones 37). In analyzing the various theories th...

for one person may be unhealthy for another. A parallel with alcoholism may also be useful, the way one individual used alcohol ma...

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...

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

capitalist and an unwavering supporter of Laissez faire capitalism, that is freedom form intervention of any sort save that of for...

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

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

naturally create a prime source of psychic conflict for nurses, which would facilitate the development of burnout. Jenkins, Ellio...

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

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

much broader in its application. It is this broadness that allows nurses to reach across religious lines and distinctions. In a su...

in nursing educators aged 36 to 45 (Lewallen, et al, 2003). To complicate matters further, recent statistics show that nurses wh...

all aspects of nursing. While the prime relationship in nursing is the one between the nurse and patient, relationships between nu...

everyone is certain of is that a managers job today is far more complex than it was two decades ago. Because of the speed at which...

are necessary for patient survival" (Kelley, 2005, p. 2). When the blood volume in the body is too low, it activates "compensatory...

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

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

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...

2003, p. 99). This type of interaction is dynamic as well as contextualized which promotes the transmission of knowledge from the ...

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

of the patient experience" (Engebretson 20). The background provided by a large, close-knit family means that, from childhood, I h...

as well as those studies that have suggested broadening students exposure to families and children with special needs. This discus...

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...