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This paper summarizes and analyzes a qualitative Norwegian study that examined the experiences of home care nurses in regards to f...

This paper provides an overview of how to disseminate evidence regarding a research project to both stakeholders that the wide nur...

This research paper offers an overview of Betty Nueman's System Model (NSM) and its application to a specific nursing situation. T...

This 7 page paper gives an overview of the basics of the major religions and why nurses should study them. This paper includes Jew...

This research paper presents an overview of earthquake preparedness and the factors that of which nurses should be knowledgable. F...

This essay addresses five issues. The first section is a brief description of one of the recommendations from the IOM for nursing ...

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...

only one group, no control group. Group exposed to treatment and then measure (Creswell, 2003). Measured participants blood gluco...

transformative perspective because Newman argues that rather than being diametrically opposed, disease and health are merely facto...

was perceived as merely the "handmaiden" of medicine, that is, a service that was there to facilitate the practice of the physicia...

rather than requiring patient transfer to ICU. This plan is consistent with the principles of planned change in that it focuses o...

train sufficient numbers of new nurses. Turnover is high among those who remain in the profession, and those so dissatisfied - an...

(1999), research shows that the level of education reached by an RN contributes to a sense of professional autonomy and those nurs...

lethal drug is given with the intent to bring about death, thus ending suffering" (28). Of course, there is a difference between ...

to physicians. Increasingly, "evidence-based guidelines are becoming codes of medical practice" (Healy, 2005; p. 54). Superficia...

over their blood glucose levels; and (3) encouraging continuous improvement in nursing knowledge and patient education. The progr...

a nurses role as a change agent in data base management. Fonville, Killian, and Tranbarger (1998) note that successful nurses of ...

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...

There are different studies that have made a partial examination of the developmental models of clinical mentorship and supervisio...

balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...

President Bush had in fact stated the obvious and appointed John F. Bolton, a critic of the institution, as the new UN ambassador...

encounters with North African Muslim immigrants who had come to Detroit (Malik, 2004). A key figure in the Nation of Islam movemen...

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...

preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...

considering this economic downturn, the numbers of undergraduates pursuing nursing careers began to also decline. In 1991, Canada ...