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declined as "educators, employers and others recognize the need for educational changes in nursing" (Bednash, 2000, p. 2985). Asso...

includes strategies that are designed to make the individual feel better, such as "exercise, spirituality, support groups and humo...

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

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

proposed method of resolution is to design, develop and evaluate a clinical, evidence-based "diabetic education program to increas...

draw on the fundamental concepts espoused by the metaparadigms. Nevertheless, each branch of nursing theory approaches the subjec...

evaluate nursing care and use research findings in clinical practice" (Barnsteiner, Wyatt and Richardson 165). This survey reveal...

within these models. Definition of nursing model Semantic confusion abounds in the relevant literature as to what--precisely--is...

instruction (Blas? and Blas?, 2001). They encourage professional growth and help teachers reflect on what they are doing and what ...

as business practices, documentation systems, process flows and lines of communication can differ (Blevins, 2001) Home health nur...

caring as the very definition of what constitutes personal values from a nursing perspective (2003). Koerner (1996), likewise, e...

Critically-Care nurses, 1989 in Nursing Management, 1999, p. 38). This abbreviated version of AACN nursing standards was located...

classifies the stroke patients needs in four domains: 1) medical/surgical issues; 2) mental status/emotion/coping behaviors; 3) ph...

certification program (Policy statement, 1999). On the other hand, the additional education required to become a licensed NP may t...

ethics are a part of the concern. The hospital should not accept a patient load that it cannot handle. Another example of an issue...

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...

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

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...

is a very important consideration in nursing. Indeed, some four thousand of so documents were published annually about pain in th...

In three pages this research paper discusses how humor can be a modality that assists nurses in patient care as well as self care....

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

Spencer, 1997). The same young woman was used in the tape, but in one version her name was "Julie Goldberg" and it was implied sh...

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