Essays 1141 - 1170
Seclusion and constraints have been the traditional way to control mental health patients when they lose control. This has always ...
This paper focuses on the problem of nocturia, which refers to frequent nighttime urination. Assessment, causes, and management ar...
Appropriate treatment decisions and planning require this level of honest communication. The decision to disclose shouldnt revolv...
this development and left orders for both analgesia and sedation, which helped at first, but became less effective as the hours pa...
not as drugs, which means that these remedies do not undergo the rigorous testing that is required for prescription medicines (He...
background and knowledge to evaluate when there is a need to consult a transcultural nurse specialist, as these specially trained ...
anxiety or address a family problem, they may prefer faith-based counseling simply because its in a language that fits them and th...
Budget cutbacks, burnout and lack of student enrollment have precluded sufficient staffing in many critical areas of healthcare. ...
This study employed a prospective pre-test and a post-test randomized control trial design and a sample group of 53 senior adults ...
leaders should facilitate their development of trans-cultural nursing skills such as being able to assess patterns that are eviden...
route of accessible health care to growing numbers of Americans. Harvards Clayton Christensen has long preached the gospel ...
MIS Guidelines? Certainly the publication addresses resource utilization, but does it specifically address creation of a new unit...
pilot study was performed first, in which the research tested the methodology. This also involved developing an interview schedule...
As we live longer, we are subject to acquiring one or more chronic illnesses, some of which come with advancing age. Older age ran...
More than 25 percent of patients with heart failure are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge and half are readmi...
the combined efforts of intense psychotherapy and standard bipolar medications. Achieving optimum health represents the primary g...
nurses should understand these patients thoroughly, "who they are, where they live and with whom, their current health status and ...
HIV-positive nurses being a threat to patients and other health care workers. Research clearly supports the reality of the situat...
mineral supplement" every day (Ungvarski, 1996). Empirical evidence shows that there is a "synergistic and interactive relations...
& McCorkle (2002) did not explicitly state any research problem or research question, but they do identify two objectives for thei...
Culturally competent care appropriate for a psychiatric hospital is considered a basic and primary component of nursing given the ...
such as tragedies, deaths, serious injuries or threatening situations, require the human being to respond in a way that intensifie...
intensive care unit (ICU) (Scholle and Mininni, 2006, p. 37). Bedside nurses are encouraged in many hospitals to make a MET call...
pay for treatment that is not covered by insurance and families without insurance are not required to pay (SJCRH, 2008). Furthermo...
paying salaries). Patients are going to generally go to hospitals where their doctors are - though when it comes to emergencies or...
and theoretical Framework: The instrument designed for use in this study drew heavily upon the survey developed by Cole, et al, wh...
patient, the attending nurse is seldom in the room at the same time. The attending physician may refer the patient to a cardiologi...
motor vehicle crashes, substance abuse, and illegal behavior" (Visser, Lesesne and Perou, 2007, S99). Symptoms include irritabili...
classify medical errors (Pace et al., 2005). In fact, there are taxonomies to classify errors but they are not standardized (Pace ...
and Perou (2007) report that an estimated five to eighteen percent of youth in the US are diagnosed with ADHD and most receive so...