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supply and the importance of fruit and vegetables in the patients diet. She authored over 200 books, reports and pamphlets on nurs...

quality and safety for the care they can expect to receive from nurses and midwives and other health professionals are the same" (...

a peaceful death among terminal patients. HSBs of specific groups of any size - whether large or small - are positively related t...

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

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

concerns the how NP practice has been implemented in countries other than the US. The majority of research articles available in v...

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

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...

college degree is now a requirement for all registered nurses. A nursing major is comprised of a diverse and challenging liberal ...

(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...

12-21, live relatively sedentary lives, as they are not active enough to successfully maintain good health (Covelli, 2007). The in...

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

be increased substantially, of course, by those immigrants families who would likely be admitted to the country as well. The inte...

in the U.S. stands at 8.5 percent to over 14 percent, depending on the specific area of specialty (Letvak and Buck, 2008), by 2020...

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

the stage of evaluation is being one mainly concerned with health-related assessment activities so that progress can be measured a...

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

workplace is a critical component of occupational rehabilitation (Morrison, 1993). In one study it was found that employees of inj...

entails job commitment and a resolution to not to waste time resisting change processes simply because they contradict the way in ...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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