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Kanters position that the situational aspects of a working environment have the ability to influence worker attitudes and behavior...
Nightingale as power-crazed and iron-willed. Salvage (2001) tends to believe that these criticisms of Nightingale reflect lingerin...
study also examined the availability of information resources available to the RN respondents (both at work and at home). Their fi...
(Domrose, 2001). However, current trends have developed that have greatly expanded the scope of med-surg nursing, which includes a...
But, it also refers to the fact that nurses "shape and transform the environment" as well as offer care within the context of an e...
and nurses need to be and has generated capacity and energy within that body of nursing to reach that vision" (Ralko 6). A princip...
those under stress or who are unhappy with their lives. For this reason there has been a higher use in poorer social classes where...
images represent some aspect of nursing? Examination of this question shows that two of these images are particularly helpful in d...
today will reach retirement age within 15 years (Mee and Robinson, 2003). At the same time, fewer people are entering nursing, as ...
to changes which in turn can result in higher costs and reduced perceived quality of care. Primary nursing is not a new con...
(p. 835) among Medicaid residents of Massachusetts nursing homes between 1991 and 1994. This mixed method (i.e., quantitative as ...
well. This study also appears to be sound scientifically. Its primary means of data analysis is statistical; the methods b...
in which nurses had to request perceptions for certain types of dressing was a waste of time and resources, which in turn impacted...
to identify and to relate in terms of actual patient care. Ida Jean Orlando created a conceptual view of the nursing process whic...
and nursing literature abounds with how such theories influence and guide nursing practice in all of its varied aspects. For exa...
and Ingalls (2003) describe the four metaparadigms allegorically as the "roots" of a living tree, emphasizing that the metaparadig...
Under her wing, Nightingale took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to health. ...
the associates course of study to address the very things that can make the greatest difference in patient outcomes and satisfacti...
are under our care. By promoting healthy and better communication between us and the patient, we do not need to involve the famil...
The concept of health also has undergone change over the years. It formerly referred to absence of disease, but now it generally ...
and Robinson, 2003). Another element complicating the problem is the fact that in the early 1990s, many hospitals restructured a...
In four pages this research paper examines nursing's metaparadigm in a consideration of concepts including nursing, health, enviro...
during which time they reviewed data regarding the patient and made adjustments to the clinical care program. The advanced practic...
The ever-changing nature of Americas health care system has introduced a chaos in a population that for more than a century has be...
p. 144). Each has value, but each exists with a paradox. The more abstract theories are more easily generalized, but more diffic...
(Snyder and Lindquist, 2001). Under this philosophy the social factors and even the spiritual factors of an individuals existen...
expected only to continue for several years to come. Then, growth will begin to decline in response to fewer numbers of people re...
use this possibility as an excuse to not provide other people, people who are obviously suffering tremendously and would inevitabl...
are getting calls from every part of the country every day. I am hearing from nurses that the working conditions are intolerable a...
eventually revert to many of the methods formerly used in patient care. She makes clear distinction between research in nursing t...