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Advances in technology have changed everything from how patients are diagnosed to acute care to managing chronic illnesses. Techno...

the factors that make nursing unique The Department of Nursing at California State University at Fresno defines nursing as a "uni...

illustrates how she ignored the potential for causing harm when she increased the patients drugs; only after the medication had be...

ability to empower and grow people" (Gokenbach, 2003, p. 8). Over the past decade, there have been numerous studies that have fou...

York found that, in the past, ambulance diversions were a seasonal event. However, more recent research finds that diversional sta...

concepts dominated the field of stress research beginning in the 1950s; however, by the 1970s, there was opposition to Selyes stre...

with their illness decreases and their partners ability to help them with the process is impeded as well. Decreased communication...

information. These guidelines are also based on this researchers finding that self-care promotes the pediatric patients spiritual ...

many of the findings of nursing research have little or no relevance to their daily practice. Im and Meleis (1999) cite several re...

This involves intensive, one-on-one teaching, which enables autistic children to learn the intricacies of behaviors or skills via ...

secretary, should leave the ward when there were fewer than three children on the unit and work a second adult unit as well. He wa...

to work efficiently and effectively across cultural boundaries. This concept also encompasses not only the assumption that nurses,...

potential for long term physiological complications as well as long-term emotional impacts. Not only does the type of care needed...

(BNE:NPA, 2006). To investigate for heart disease was clearly indicated by physicians orders and, furthermore, Eddie failed to not...

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...

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

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...

much broader in its application. It is this broadness that allows nurses to reach across religious lines and distinctions. In a su...

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

Rural Nurses, represented by registered nurse and practicing attorney Jacqulyn Hall, filed an amici curiae (friends of the court) ...

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

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

partners in the healthcare process. Through training and education, nurses learn to make decisions on multiple issues of patient c...

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

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

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