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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...

to identify and to relate in terms of actual patient care. Ida Jean Orlando created a conceptual view of the nursing process whic...

the associates course of study to address the very things that can make the greatest difference in patient outcomes and satisfacti...

to changes which in turn can result in higher costs and reduced perceived quality of care. Primary nursing is not a new con...

promotion can address a variety of nursing clients in a variety of circumstances. For example, Richardson (2002) acknowledges that...

self-knowledge (Simpson, 2004). While anecdotal evidence is not regarded as conclusive, the experience of individual nurses in reg...

numbers of young students came to believe that perhaps nursing would provide an outlet for caring natures as well as support a fam...

are RNs who are "prepared, through advanced education and clinical training, to provide preventive and acute health-care services"...

embarrassment in front of others, withheld pay increases, and termination" (Marriner-Tomey, 2004, p. 118). While conferring reward...

defining the leadership characteristics that would be the focus of this educational effort (Pintar, Capuano and Rosser, 2007). As ...

2001). Toms condition remained so precarious that personal care for him had to be done very tentatively. For example, brushing his...

less people living in rural communities and the "more remote geographical regions" of Australia than in urban locales (Bushy 104)....

age. Therefore, the patient population is increasing. This factor is also influenced by the fact that that the huge lump in the Am...

the "niche were multiple members encounter and respond to disease and illness across the life course" (Denham, 2003, p. 143). Nurs...

students values : This calls for personal reflection. A question that the student can ask herself/himself is how he or she might h...

system," since the institution of mandated nursing ratios, and also that data shows California hospitals have not only been able t...

that hospital nurse staffing levels are inadequate to provide safe and effective care" (DPE Research Department, 2003). Physicians...

to increase the quality of care given in long term care facilities in the country, in order to ultimate reduce health care costs t...

This essay presents a summary and analysis of "Video on Interviewing Vulnerable Elders (VIVE)," which instructs nurses and long-te...

This research paper investigates the relationship between the provision of futile care and the development of moral distress among...

This 16 page paper outlines the elements that need to change for improving quality of nursing care. This paper explains that the p...

This paper is basically about nurse leadership. A scenario was presented in which a nurse director needed to present a new annual ...

This pair consists of the speaker notes for khapnpall.ppt, a six-slide Power Point presentation that critiques an article, Reed (2...

that they are often asked to take care of more patients with higher acuity levels than they have in the past (Hassmiller and Cozin...

has left the facility and has gone home to the comforts of home in order to spend the last days, weeks or months of their life in ...

to nursing practice in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), as the welfare of each high-needs baby is intrinsically tied to fami...

In two pages this paper discusses how nurses can deal with the stress of their jobs with a 'hardy' personality as described in thi...

Today, the theories of Orem, Roy, Neuman, Rogers, King, and others seem to be more popular than older theories such as those of Fl...

In three pages this research paper discusses how humor can be a modality that assists nurses in patient care as well as self care....