... of the few fields that offers an enormous amount of diversity in a single profession. It provides opportunities in all specialties of healthcare. One of the areas that is most often overlooked but is also one of the most rewarding is nursing in rural communities. Rural nursing is a challenging field of nursing that requires a "special person" to fulfill the role. They must be extremely ... (Morgan and Reel 3). It is these characteristics that define the health behavior of its residents, determine their health status and influence the way health and medical care is provided. Nursing is ...

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... lack of understanding but the saddest aspect of this comes from the heart of nursing itself and that is the inadequacy of readily available descriptive information about the role and practice options, standardized and legitimized education, and disregard that many in the nursing profession have for advance practice nursing. While it is time to change that, this paper will focus on the ... importance of the healthy relationship between nurse practitioner and MD. At present, nursing wants to collaborate, medicine wants to supervise. In many states and in Canada, the ... and training may ...

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... however, according to Husted & Husted (2001), it was not recognized as a separate discipline in the medical field until recently: "Bioethics "ethics as it relates to the health care profession "came into existence as an independent discipline about 1970- (p. 4). Bioethics deals with matters such as informed consent, abortion, research on human subjects, compassionate treatment of the dying, and the ... during the process. This process has ten steps and includes all of the tiers in the framework of ethical decision-making used today. Ethical decisions do not just pertain to nursing; ever...

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... on managed care and feels as if she is being affected by it. On behalf of her experiment of being a RN and understanding how managed care is involved in her profession she alerts other nurses to be aware of all these reimbursements so that they will benefit in their career. Strengths and Weaknesses Cindy Ling has a great amount of strengths, she ... important role in health care delivery. Managed care is surely putting a very large workload on them, and it is also taking away the attachment that a nurse has with a patient. Being a nursing student, I would not be very satisfied if I had ...

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