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Kanters position that the situational aspects of a working environment have the ability to influence worker attitudes and behavior...

we had a helper who came in during the day and a nurse at night. Both of them were kind, experienced and very caring, and I could ...

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

(Domrose, 2001). However, current trends have developed that have greatly expanded the scope of med-surg nursing, which includes a...

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

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...

and long-term care facilities (CNRA). The CNRA also outlined the distinct functions of a nurse in the care of individuals, recog...

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...

Under her wing, Nightingale took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to health. ...

The concept of health also has undergone change over the years. It formerly referred to absence of disease, but now it generally ...

and Robinson, 2003). Another element complicating the problem is the fact that in the early 1990s, many hospitals restructured a...

In four pages this research paper examines nursing's metaparadigm in a consideration of concepts including nursing, health, enviro...

theoretical framework for promoting professional development through the use of quality circles. This management theory involves a...

today will reach retirement age within 15 years (Mee and Robinson, 2003). At the same time, fewer people are entering nursing, as ...

nurse anesthetist. For one week, I watched the interactions between the nurse anesthetist and other professionals, as well as the...

images represent some aspect of nursing? Examination of this question shows that two of these images are particularly helpful in d...

and nurses need to be and has generated capacity and energy within that body of nursing to reach that vision" (Ralko 6). A princip...

leader. Finally, my educational objectives include demonstrating an awareness of and a skill for nursing research, which requires...

that culture can be considered interchangeable with subculture, and this is based in the belief that both allow for the commonaliz...

base on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, officially bringing the United States into World War II. At the time of the surprise attack, howev...

use this possibility as an excuse to not provide other people, people who are obviously suffering tremendously and would inevitabl...

are getting calls from every part of the country every day. I am hearing from nurses that the working conditions are intolerable a...

eventually revert to many of the methods formerly used in patient care. She makes clear distinction between research in nursing t...

appropriate. Also, when changing bed linens it is imperative that the soiled bed linens get placed in a bag and not into the clea...

p. 144). Each has value, but each exists with a paradox. The more abstract theories are more easily generalized, but more diffic...

expected only to continue for several years to come. Then, growth will begin to decline in response to fewer numbers of people re...

(Snyder and Lindquist, 2001). Under this philosophy the social factors and even the spiritual factors of an individuals existen...

that have affected my choice of working as a nurse. Of course many people have these factors in common within their personal valu...