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1999). Lee and his family owned a small business and had no health or medical insurance. The family was urged to begin the process...

Leaders create the future rather than simply become its victims (Kerfoot, 1998). They are generally thinking several months ahead,...

when he cannot feel a pulse. A new nurse, a first year graduate, Sally enters the room, sees Long and runs out. She encounters Nur...

influential resource and is a resource in which the patient will rely. Ethics Issues In this paper the treatment of a pati...

face and chest that it causes, and it is characterized by chills, fever, headache, vomiting, rapid pulse, red rash and an inflame...

In fourteen pages this research paper considers how a nursing intervention can be designed to assist adults with PTSD resulting fr...

the needs of the dying and her work indicates that there are times when the most meaningful communication that a nurse can offer i...

after the exposure to the initiating traumatic event (Stein, 2002). If PTSD-like symptoms become evidence and are intense prior to...

US shortage has caused many healthcare institutions to look for nurses outside their countrys borders and many nurses are leaving ...

of the greatest areas of concern. Finding sufficient time for school, as well as all other activities required of the student, was...

While these definitions are extremely similar, a differences in emphasis can reflect a differing philosophical stance. The manner ...

disagree with his wife could disrupt their marital relationship at a time when he needs this support, which is undoubtedly one of ...

transformative perspective because Newman argues that rather than being diametrically opposed, disease and health are merely facto...

drugs and to administer those drugs in a manner that is beneficial to our patients as well as being put into a positions where we ...

train sufficient numbers of new nurses. Turnover is high among those who remain in the profession, and those so dissatisfied - an...

balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...

the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...

her, per se, but rather with her expectations of Madeline, which are not age appropriate. The scenario says that Madeline knows be...

that the doctrine of informed consent is "hopelessly flawed--or at least misguided," as it is often not possible to truly inform ...

Sharon Bernier, RN, PhD and President of the National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing, points out that Aikens study also...

I replied that I could develop a program with her supervision, that nurses were more interested in furthering their training than ...

The metaparadigms of nursing represent common concepts that are accepted throughout the profession and across international bounda...

In five pages this research paper takes a nursing perspecitve regarding the elderly's physical changes and increased dependence th...

considering this economic downturn, the numbers of undergraduates pursuing nursing careers began to also decline. In 1991, Canada ...

reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...

on diabetes into categories and addresses these topics on separate web pages, as does the first site. The homepage explains that t...

not money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely woul...

"significant anxiety, particularly before they discover the most effective symptom management" (Moloney, et al, 2001, p. 19). In o...

their own condition. Judkins and Ingram (2002) designed a self-paced learning module in order to determine whether knowledge relat...

result that nursing pays well enough to support a family now, which is in great contrast to conditions in the distant past. The p...