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the situation in which the health care is offered, that is, a clinic, a hospital or a physicians office. "Health" refers to a st...

goal of this study was to discern if a successful intervention could be devised that would have a beneficial effect on inappropria...

nursing care over the past decade and how do they support the argument for a continuum of educational practices for nursing profes...

over the course of several years of research into the issue. Most styles also depend on an array of variables including "organiza...

want to reduce the number of green cards while other members want to increase the number (Martinez, 2006). There are also "480,000...

fresh water that is accessible under the ground is much greater than the water found in the globes freshwater lakes (Defant, 2003)...

another (De Mente, 2005). Rushing in with the typical American "lets get down to business" attitude is considered rude, and may ev...

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

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

is bothersome to the point of creating fear and ask for their help in reaching a resolution. From this interactive encounter, the...

collaborating physicians name. Authority to prescribe controlled substances includes Schedule II-V as outlined in the prescribers ...

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...

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

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...

which a person demonstrates fundamental functioning in their life environment (Jones and Kilpatrick, 1996). In other words, the c...

advocates, providing medical treatments prescribed by physicians, and keeping accurate records of changes in patient status (Nurse...

of a unified health care organization that included both Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH...

recognition of cultural and social influences on health care outcomes. As a result, advanced practice nurses have also become int...

considered one of a number of high stress jobs, and stress is problematic, causing inefficiencies, high staffing turnover rates an...

"Botswana is one of the countries that has been hardest hit by the worldwide HIV epidemic. In 2004 there were an estimated 260,000...

are not as valid as medical tests, that the assessments used are not valid (Daw, 2001). As the report stated: "This report helps u...

a specialized body of knowledge, skills and experience that enables these nurses to offer a high standard of care to critically il...

for black and Latino girls, however (Medical News Today, July, 2005). Black teens were more than twice as likely to become pregnan...

36). Both a therapeutic and social relationship are featured in the film Good Will Hunting (1997). The protagonist in the film, ...

(b) Lower rate (c) Higher rate (d) Total for each occurrence (e) (c+d) Total cost for each type of occurrence (b x e) 4 14 3600 0 ...

nurse, 2005). In addition to basic educational preparation at the RN level, oncology nursing practice also requires cancer-speci...

influential resource and is a resource in which the patient will rely. Ethics Issues In this paper the treatment of a pati...