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nursing care over the past decade and how do they support the argument for a continuum of educational practices for nursing profes...

parents of children with cancer regarding the needs of siblings and on the support that was offered by hospital staff. The results...

nurses as they engage in diagnostic, prescriptive, and regulatory operations of nursing" (Horan, Doran and Timmins, 2004, p. 30). ...

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

Family crisis). However, society itself is made up of smaller units, of which the family is one, and therefore structural function...

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

the elderly. The Nurse Practitioner announced in its July 2000 issue that reports of the AMAs petition had been received as...

lawyers, uncaring nurses and pedophile clergy is to cut back on scientific research--a tenuous conclusion at best. Where the art...

the mountains in California, ride a horse in the Grand Canyon, volunteer in a cancer center, finish painting his house, attend his...

the patient prior to his death. The nurse clearly felt the need to encourage the family to stay and spend as much time as possibl...

so often work today. The first issue which will be discussed for the purposes of this paper is that of environment. This...

and more nurses are standing at the front lines of managed care, acting somewhat as liaison between the patient and managed care o...

that make use of color, but even these efforts have not typically met with good response by patients or hospital administrators (S...

and two other men beside her patient, she becomes drawn to the patient, though not in a romantic way. She devotes nearly her entir...

* Time over Money - Employees today seek more personal time versus financial compensation. * Professional versus Personal Role - ...

carcinoma in situ (DCIS). This is also known as "intraductal carcinoma or non-invasive breast cancer" (Breast Cancer, 2004; p. PG...

moment to moment as the changing patterns of shifting perspectives weave the fabric of life through the human-universe interconnec...

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

is wheelchair bound, but nevertheless cooks for herself and shops for herself in a nearby grocery store, using her motorized wheel...

also a former student of Vivians is now in the rather awkward position of also being one of her doctors, as he is an intern and re...

pilot study was performed first, in which the research tested the methodology. This also involved developing an interview schedule...

Kanters position that the situational aspects of a working environment have the ability to influence worker attitudes and behavior...

by the caring physical presence of this nurse in her last remaining hours. However, the way in which this case turned out saw the ...

arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways and all other products of human work and thought..." (Purnell, 2005, p. 7). It is the eth...

leaders should facilitate their development of trans-cultural nursing skills such as being able to assess patterns that are eviden...

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

the disease as well as around the prevention of the spread of the causative organism to other individuals that come into contact w...

says that families have been sorely neglected as a great deal of nursing practice continues to focus on individuals (Denham, 2003)...

differences between these two classifications are then described and three factors that are believe to influence the formation of ...

there is very little information about predisposes people to these episodes (Swann, 2006). Therefore, for the most part, nursing a...