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of the great need for Hispanic nurses which has been created by the growing Hispanic population, this occupational choice presents...

today, but health care delivery appears to be more of a team project than the responsibility of one doctor. In earlier days, a nu...

graduate nursing hires (Truman, 2004, p. 45). The novice nurses participate in six hours of classroom instruction, plus thirty hou...

of the exact research topic at the beginning, an idea that will become clearer as the researcher explores the literature. The wo...

the question of what effect an aging nursing work force has on American healthcare in general. First and foremost, the aging of ...

socially isolating, as outside opinion is discounted. The team adopts a "defensive posture," which is evidenced by "derogatory, de...

generations. Though Nightingale promoted a professional demeanor, nursing was not something that most well-bred women would even ...

30 months, as this is when between 13 and 28 percent of senior nurses are due to retire (Sibbald, 2003). Currently, close to a thi...

imply, a standardized nursing language provides a "uniform nomenclature for the diagnosis, intervention, and evaluation components...

quality and care" of health services that offered to rural areas throughout the US (Clinton, 2007). In addition to providing fun...

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 ...

chosen. The Metropolitan Museum of Art indicates two events that would be appropriate for a humanities-oriented fieldtrip geared...

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

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

situation. As a provider of care, it is the role of the community health nurse to address the needs of Centerville adolescents i...

Empirical research ahs consistently reported that when communication between the two professions is good, which includes doctors ...

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

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

Nightingale as power-crazed and iron-willed. Salvage (2001) tends to believe that these criticisms of Nightingale reflect lingerin...

But, it also refers to the fact that nurses "shape and transform the environment" as well as offer care within the context of an e...

is the development of Mishels Uncertainty in Illness Scale (MUIS), which is comprised of twenty-eight item measure that utilizes a...

study also examined the availability of information resources available to the RN respondents (both at work and at home). Their fi...

long after all signs of consciousness have ceased. Is this "good"? Is this beneficent? The news tells us of parents confronting me...

counselor, often causing even greater tension than what already exists and drawing away from the ability to forge an alliance. Se...

This nurse that leaving the acute care facility had to do with "When youre constantly short-staffed and feel your managers arent s...

records and kept him and his family informed about his progress to date and what he could expect along the path to recovery. Nurs...