The nurses within the Colorado Board of Nursing should be - and most likely are - ashamed of their misguided actions. This story of a suffering child made to bear more pain in their first and last hours on Earth is nothing short of horrifying (Calfee & Plum, 1997). Had...

Having worked at an inpatient forensic psychiatric state hospital with a population of 1,500, which treats psychiatric-related problems for patients that committed crimes, each time a patient has a medical emergency, they must be transported to an off-site facility. This is usually a community-based hospital emergency room (ER). The transfer...

The purpose of his paper is to distinguish between nursing theories, models, and frameworks. According to Masters (2011), a conceptual model in nursing is a set of “concepts and statements that integrate concepts into a meaningful configuration” (p.48). Nursing models, therefore, help to define nursing ideas and statements in a...

Discussion - Family Values a) In their book, Friedman, Bowden, and Jones (2003) argue that health maintenance has turned into one of the central elements of American core value paradigm and is now regarded as one of the key preconditions of wealthy and happy life. I could observe the evidence...

It is the personal beliefs and values of individuals which often guide one to become a nurse, and these also serve to shape the attitude to practice. Most nurses are passionate about caring for the sick; however personal beliefs can interfere with the capacity to provide appropriate care. No matter...