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The concept of health also has undergone change over the years. It formerly referred to absence of disease, but now it generally ...

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 ...

today will reach retirement age within 15 years (Mee and Robinson, 2003). At the same time, fewer people are entering nursing, as ...

required qualified, competent staff. This resulted in the establishment of training schools for nurses (Formal training, 2005). Un...

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

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

the central problem is often the inappropriate use of unlicensed personnel in the workplace setting. Though nurse mangers are ins...

which a person demonstrates fundamental functioning in their life environment (Jones and Kilpatrick, 1996). In other words, the c...

a specialized body of knowledge, skills and experience that enables these nurses to offer a high standard of care to critically il...

to the wide-ranging aspect of nursing than merely administering medicine; in fact, the myriad components that ultimately comprise ...

and continues to do so, over the past two decades, as it was first published in 1979 (Falk-Rafael, 2000). In formulating her theor...

2003). Most international nurses coming to the US come from the Philippines, but many also come from Canada and India with addit...

up billboards offering cash incentives, while nursing schools also originated creative means of recruiting more students (Wells). ...

the very act of following the "law" (i.e., supply and demand) of economics now has exacerbated the shortage of nurses who also are...

considered one of a number of high stress jobs, and stress is problematic, causing inefficiencies, high staffing turnover rates an...

issue of regulatory interest when attached to direct patient care (Nursing, 2004). As few nurses with no patient responsibilities...

images represent some aspect of nursing? Examination of this question shows that two of these images are particularly helpful in d...

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

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

students. Why is there a nursing shortage? Basically, there is a nursing shortage because governments have not done what was requ...

advocates, providing medical treatments prescribed by physicians, and keeping accurate records of changes in patient status (Nurse...

of a unified health care organization that included both Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH...

several years. Psychologically, it has been found that individuals more actively involved with their own health care often fare m...

in the 19th and early 20th century, the fact is even more remarkable. "Well and Strong and Young" Updike writes that in 1854 Bar...

the inclination is to treat the dying patient with as little emotion as possible, so as not to suffer emotionally as well, many nu...

in which nurses had to request perceptions for certain types of dressing was a waste of time and resources, which in turn impacted...

fairly positive towards the 12-hour shift, but the nursing educators were extremely negative. The teaching staff opposed the use o...

expressing his or her misery. Such caregivers may have experienced patients who are as likely to cry out, thrash around, or simply...

the realization of the "dehumanizing" of patients that led to them being referred to as "Bed x," "Case x" or some other nameless, ...

2002 and allowed for a National Nurse Service Corps program to provide funding for tuition, expenses and a stipend to those nursin...