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By addressing this need, which includes rehabilitation designed to aid her mobility, nursing intervention can also have a positive...

provided in their own home. Services offered include, but are not limited to, general nursing services, physical and occupational ...

number of patients, in other words) and the incidence of injury at nursing homes, making this correlation a worthwhile problem to ...

for competency, the use do surveys to assess standards and the evaluation of clients as well as the provision of a complaints hotl...

legislation an the economic feasibility of the plan. A major role of the board will be to make the decision, to ensure that there ...

in the home and individuals suffering from dementia. The background literature review sites a wide range of sources, including res...

The writer looks at a research article by Lach and Chang (2007) entitled Caregiver Perspectives on Safety in Home Dementia Care" p...

the staff endeavors not only to care for our residents physical needs, but also for their psychological, social, and emotional nee...

Many of the physicians on staff had graduated from Harvard Medical School and tended to think themselves superior to everyone and ...

The paper is a presentation designed to introduce and explain a new fall prevention policy for a home care nursing agency. The pr...

being examined from the physical perspective it was also necessary to look at the falls from a practical, social and a psychologic...

falls. Of course, performance measures must utilize meaningful metrics if the performance they measure is to be of any use to the ...

The writer provides some feedback that may have been provided by a mentor, looking at a presentation given by the student. The pr...

This paper consists of the speaker notes for a PowerPoint presentation that pertains to the a student's volunteer experience. The ...

This paper summarizes and analyzes a qualitative Norwegian study that examined the experiences of home care nurses in regards to f...

the prevalence of UI was high in this region of the country and particularly high among African Americans in two of the states, wh...

have "little or no training in fundamental management skills" (Baer, 2006, p. 60). As well as absenteeism, problems with managemen...

The following are research questions that could be asked of staff members regarding whether the program is needed: * Are there pat...

Integrity in this sense is about wholeness as opposed to how we often use the term (to mean honesty) (Johansson, 2002). It is abou...

there is no cure either for Alzheimers disease or the various forms of dementia on the horizon, healthcare practitioners should "i...

the case study, is important for planning a safe and effective rehabilitation program (Craven and Hirnle, 2007). People who experi...

a "collaborative quality improvement project" that focuses on PUs in nursing homes as its primary focus (Lynn, et al, 2007). QIOs,...

management, in recent years, has been quite extensive. This body of empirical evidence and commentary largely supports the concept...

a nurse to determine which elderly patients are being abused because a sense of shame or a desire to protect the family member who...

Not only are the direct health impacts to the nurse deleterious, impaired nurses cannot meet their responsibility to provide top q...

"chronic, heavy drinking" (Enoch and Goldman, 2002, p. 192). According to government standards, a woman is at-risk for heavy drink...

have access to a range of drugs. Bennett (et al, 2000) argues that the overall rate of substance abuse in the nursing popualtion r...

This paper outlines a dilemma that arises when a patient requests secrecy upon revealing physical abuse to a student nurse. There...

that time. What might be needed, then, would be some plan of action that the staff could follow, or possibly some type of polite s...

the problem and to eliminate it where possible. Nester (1998) quantifies the extent of the problem relating that an estimated 1,2...