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nurses should understand these patients thoroughly, "who they are, where they live and with whom, their current health status and ...

(2003) gives the example of an nurse assigned to a busy intensive care unit (ICU) began experiencing clear signs of traumatic stre...

expectancy is increasing and more people are surviving serious illness and living longer with chronic illness. At the same time, t...

the "niche were multiple members encounter and respond to disease and illness across the life course" (Denham, 2003, p. 143). Nurs...

the nurse is uncertain of which tasks are appropriate to delegation, as well as the skill level of UAPs, their reluctance becomes ...

many of the findings of nursing research have little or no relevance to their daily practice. Im and Meleis (1999) cite several re...

information. These guidelines are also based on this researchers finding that self-care promotes the pediatric patients spiritual ...

with their illness decreases and their partners ability to help them with the process is impeded as well. Decreased communication...

ability to empower and grow people" (Gokenbach, 2003, p. 8). Over the past decade, there have been numerous studies that have fou...

This involves intensive, one-on-one teaching, which enables autistic children to learn the intricacies of behaviors or skills via ...

verifies old knowledge (Wilkerson, 1998). As this suggests, the continuation of scholarly advances in the development of nursing t...

makes the point that EBP involves more than simply utilize research evidence; and Penz and Bassendowski emphasize this point by s...

Aesthetic, the need for beauty, order and symmetry (Huitt, 2004). 7. Self-actualization is a plateau not all people reach. At this...

is a term that refers to "a formal way of thinking (i.e. conceptualizing) about a process/system under study" (Conceptual Framewor...

interests and values considered and respected in the decision-making process" (Fly and Johnstone, 2002). This rationale is undoubt...

task forces, committees, and organizational projects," while also serving as "resources to other nurses to facilitate advancing sk...

quality and safety for the care they can expect to receive from nurses and midwives and other health professionals are the same" (...

individual family member are considered within this context (Friedman, Bowden and Jones 37). In analyzing the various theories th...

include an understanding of how insulin functions to control glucose levels and the interaction between variables that can affect ...

Sometimes the ability to perform foot self-exams for follow-up education or acute illness (Nettles, 2005, p. 44). Additionally, ...

This 3 page paper provides an overview of a nursing recommendation. This paper gives a number of reasons why the student would be...

(BNE:NPA, 2006). To investigate for heart disease was clearly indicated by physicians orders and, furthermore, Eddie failed to not...

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

move in concentric circles of caring--from individuals, to others, to community, to (the) world" (Vance, 2003). Caring science inv...

nurse working on a medical unit at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center. According to Kodet, the only thing ...

p. 311). Specifically, this study focused on discerning how indicators of the "psychosocial work climate" affected the frequency w...

For example, in regards to nurse practitioners from other state, the law states, "The Board (meaning the Board of Nursing) may iss...

2005, p.165). In obese children, the number of fat cells present in the body can be as much as three times higher than in normal w...

perceived self-efficacy (Capik, 1998). JJ explained how Penders theory guides her priorities in establishing educational goals, ...

secretary, should leave the ward when there were fewer than three children on the unit and work a second adult unit as well. He wa...