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in diagnostic, prescriptive, and regulatory operations of nursing" (Horan, Doran and Timmins, 2004, p. 30). From this perspective,...

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

(Domrose, 2001). However, current trends have developed that have greatly expanded the scope of med-surg nursing, which includes a...

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

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...

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

This nurse that leaving the acute care facility had to do with "When youre constantly short-staffed and feel your managers arent s...

situation. As a provider of care, it is the role of the community health nurse to address the needs of Centerville adolescents i...

homes. Rather, it is a high-quality facility dedicated to providing the best of care to its residents. Staff members are employe...

Statistics expects that number to rise to more than one million in less than 20 years. The American Nurses Association and Monste...

The ever-changing nature of Americas health care system has introduced a chaos in a population that for more than a century has be...

(p. 835) among Medicaid residents of Massachusetts nursing homes between 1991 and 1994. This mixed method (i.e., quantitative as ...

well. This study also appears to be sound scientifically. Its primary means of data analysis is statistical; the methods b...

or understanding when the staff or the doctors have to move on to the next client. Many patients complain that their healthcare pr...

to changes which in turn can result in higher costs and reduced perceived quality of care. Primary nursing is not a new con...

eventually revert to many of the methods formerly used in patient care. She makes clear distinction between research in nursing t...

are getting calls from every part of the country every day. I am hearing from nurses that the working conditions are intolerable a...

(Snyder and Lindquist, 2001). Under this philosophy the social factors and even the spiritual factors of an individuals existen...

that have affected my choice of working as a nurse. Of course many people have these factors in common within their personal valu...

during which time they reviewed data regarding the patient and made adjustments to the clinical care program. The advanced practic...

expected only to continue for several years to come. Then, growth will begin to decline in response to fewer numbers of people re...

p. 144). Each has value, but each exists with a paradox. The more abstract theories are more easily generalized, but more diffic...

use this possibility as an excuse to not provide other people, people who are obviously suffering tremendously and would inevitabl...

to identify and to relate in terms of actual patient care. Ida Jean Orlando created a conceptual view of the nursing process whic...

and nursing literature abounds with how such theories influence and guide nursing practice in all of its varied aspects. For exa...

and Ingalls (2003) describe the four metaparadigms allegorically as the "roots" of a living tree, emphasizing that the metaparadig...

the associates course of study to address the very things that can make the greatest difference in patient outcomes and satisfacti...

N F Resident Costs N N N - - C = Critical N = Needed (may or may not be necessary on its own) F = Facilitating information ?Includ...

Under her wing, Nightingale took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to health. ...

are under our care. By promoting healthy and better communication between us and the patient, we do not need to involve the famil...