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the personal growth and learning of second year student nurses working within two surgical units. The clinical logs produced by th...

overall umbrella of informatics (Ericksen, 2011). For example, nurses specializing in informatics within the context of a hospital...

rituals of this religion in order to offer quality care. They should know, for instance, that an Orthodox Jew is required to wash ...

nurses can become political active, as these organizations frequently play an active role in establishing public policy by publica...

directly with families in their home, aiding them with complex care situations (Denham, 2003). How has the family changed? In 20...

the problem of teaching students with diverse backgrounds and abilities and refer to the 1997 report of the National Committee of ...

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

to five-times the risk for CHD, which contrasts sharply with the double risk encountered in African American men. There is also a ...

(Allmark, 2003, p. 4). Poststructuralism: This perspective takes a deconstructive view of structuralism and "sees inquiry as ine...

serve to mentor teens and provide socially positive guidance and support. Diagnostic and screening exams will also be available, b...

and * Student presentations (50.6 percent" (Burkemper, et al, 2007, p. 14). Less than one third of the courses surveyed indicat...

Background/Review of Literature The eight articles/studies that constitute this literature review encompasses several key concept...

in any other state must, as of January 1, 2008, have a masters or another advanced graduate degree in nursing (Phillips, 2005). Wi...

based on a research study that surveyed over 2,000 RNs who provide direct nursing care in three mid-western hospitals. This result...

relationships between self-care agency and the self-care demand" (Kumar, 2007, p. 106). Within the context of Self-Care Deficit ...

did you wonder about your stepfather being alive or dead? What you write may resemble the following: I was considered too young to...

the ability of an institution to deliver quality, error-free care. At the Six Sigma level, there are roughly "3.4 errors per one m...

report, admissions, and emergency situations" (Griffin, 2003, p. 135). The rationale for this policy is that it protects the confi...

proven to be the principal reason for nosocomial infections, that is, infections that are acquired after hospital admittance. Impo...

of nursing and by lobbying" both Congress and regulatory agencies in regards to healthcare issues that affect nursing (ANA, 2008)....

factors that have been identified include "diabetes, alcoholism, malnutrition, history of antibiotic or corticosteroid use, decrea...

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

planning evaluation to those patients, conducted or overseen by a registered nurse, social worker or other appropriately qualified...

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

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...

be discussed relative to both previous research and the studies that have come after it. This research tends to substantiate the s...

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...

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