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dependency upon others for assisted daily living skills, and institutional care. Rockwood (1997) defined frail elderly people as t...

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

do not have their inhaler with them or it is "forgotten, lost or empty when needed" (Bryne, Schreibr and Nguyen 335). Without this...

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

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

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...

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

The intent of anesthesia, of course, is to pharmaceutically suppress the perception and thus the memory of the procedure. There h...

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

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...

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...

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

In the US there is a requirement for healthcare organizations to use electronic health records (HER), also known as electronic pat...

tree is the founding theory of modern nursing, the theory formulated by Florence Nightingale. There are three branches in this ana...

are RNs who are "prepared, through advanced education and clinical training, to provide preventive and acute health-care services"...

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

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

This 6 page paper explains how there should be more of a standard for education for people studying to be nurses and how nurse edu...

This research paper discusses the role of a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP). The writer discusses nursing meta-paradigm concepts, ...

This research paper/essay addresses the topic of nursing delegation within the context of a sub-acute unit located within a nursin...

This offers three posts that will be submitted to a nursing discussion board. These posts address various world views on science, ...

What should a nurse do when she knows that a surgeon is incompetent and killing children on his operating table? Even today, there...

This essay linked the IOM and QSEN reports by pointing out that advanced education would lead to nurses gaining the identified com...

This paper is made up of three sections, with each section pertaining to a significant hospital administration issue. These topics...

This research paper pertains to nursing competencies and the difference between associate degree-trained nurses and those with a b...

Outlook Handbook, which is published by the U.S. Department of Labors Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), registered nurses (RNs), a...

This research paper discusses three nursing topics, which are: the interrelationship between core competencies; preparing nurses t...

have on patient outcomes. It was found patients from the Mexican American families, where there was a lower level of EE were also ...