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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...

care system. Middaugh (2003) asserts that nursing management should provide emergency planning that spells out "what people should...

The link between nurse caring and patient satisfaction has been reported numerous times. For instance, the AORN journal reported a...

the nursing theorists that have come after her (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003). The interactive model focuses on the significant of ...

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

Family crisis). However, society itself is made up of smaller units, of which the family is one, and therefore structural function...

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 ...

naturally create a prime source of psychic conflict for nurses, which would facilitate the development of burnout. Jenkins, Ellio...

a mentor and/or a preceptor. Mentoring is the "process through which a relationship is established between an experienced indivi...

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

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

in death is a wise safeguard. In the early part of the twentieth century, rationalizations abounded in medical literature that def...

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...

in nursing educators aged 36 to 45 (Lewallen, et al, 2003). To complicate matters further, recent statistics show that nurses wh...

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

will--in all likelihood--result in a professional negligence suit, rather than criminal charges. Suits against nurses result from ...

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...

to a hospital, where he was intubated so that he could receive nutrition. He was again returned to Eastbrooke3 on July 23, 1990, w...

it comes to orders, medications, tests, transfers and so on. Another problem for both physicians and nurses is identifying all p...

rely on "surrogate" decision-makers, family members capable of making treatment decisions on their behalf. As a result, this stud...

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

the central problem is often the inappropriate use of unlicensed personnel in the workplace setting. Though nurse mangers are ins...

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...