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expectancy is increasing and more people are surviving serious illness and living longer with chronic illness. At the same time, t...
the "niche were multiple members encounter and respond to disease and illness across the life course" (Denham, 2003, p. 143). Nurs...
nurses should understand these patients thoroughly, "who they are, where they live and with whom, their current health status and ...
The paper begins by briefly identifying and explaining three of the standard change theory/models. The stages of each are named. T...
It is well known that there is a significant shortage of registered nurses that will continue to grow. There is a difference of op...
endeavor. Nursing in any context requires a detailed knowledge of individual patients. Specifically, a forensic nurse will have a...
it comes to orders, medications, tests, transfers and so on. Another problem for both physicians and nurses is identifying all p...
as well as those studies that have suggested broadening students exposure to families and children with special needs. This discus...
of the patient experience" (Engebretson 20). The background provided by a large, close-knit family means that, from childhood, I h...
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...
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...
NAON recognizes that learning and developing professional is a life-long processes and it helps orthopedic nurses achieve the goal...
will--in all likelihood--result in a professional negligence suit, rather than criminal charges. Suits against nurses result from ...
all aspects of nursing. While the prime relationship in nursing is the one between the nurse and patient, relationships between nu...
partners in the healthcare process. Through training and education, nurses learn to make decisions on multiple issues of patient c...
are necessary for patient survival" (Kelley, 2005, p. 2). When the blood volume in the body is too low, it activates "compensatory...
a mentor and/or a preceptor. Mentoring is the "process through which a relationship is established between an experienced indivi...
the nursing theorists that have come after her (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003). The interactive model focuses on the significant of ...
naturally create a prime source of psychic conflict for nurses, which would facilitate the development of burnout. Jenkins, Ellio...
p. 311). Specifically, this study focused on discerning how indicators of the "psychosocial work climate" affected the frequency w...
nurse working on a medical unit at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center. According to Kodet, the only thing ...
Family crisis). However, society itself is made up of smaller units, of which the family is one, and therefore structural function...
move in concentric circles of caring--from individuals, to others, to community, to (the) world" (Vance, 2003). Caring science inv...
perceived self-efficacy (Capik, 1998). JJ explained how Penders theory guides her priorities in establishing educational goals, ...
2005, p.165). In obese children, the number of fat cells present in the body can be as much as three times higher than in normal w...
the situation in which the health care is offered, that is, a clinic, a hospital or a physicians office. "Health" refers to a st...
Rural Nurses, represented by registered nurse and practicing attorney Jacqulyn Hall, filed an amici curiae (friends of the court) ...