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The Impact of Nursing, Earthquake,

This research paper focuses on nursing care in regards to earthquake victims. The writer reviews relevant recent literature in re...

OBRA 87: Achieving its Potential

facilities that it was intended to achieve. Looking at more specific indicators, however, one can see from the literature review ...

Nursing Home Injuries: A Review of the Literature

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

Book Summary//Future of Primary Care

in the first half of the twentieth century, as compared with the realities of the second half. Previously the main deliver of prim...

Emergency Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA)

one comprising chronic illness or injury. Consider, for example, an individual coming to the emergency room complaining of chest ...

Ethics of a Two-Tier Health System

medically necessary services provided by hospitals and doctors must be insured;"5 * Universality - ensures uniform terms and condi...

American Journal of Nursing Article 'Improved Rates of Compliance with Hand Antisepsis Guidelines: A Three-Phase Observational Study' Reviewed

efficiency is paramount. The problem is important for nursing study because (1) it is so pervasive, and (2) returning to ba...

Rima Shore: What Kids Need

the practical advice along with the posing of the problems. Many times books which are produced only serve to point out what is wr...

Current Literature and Kangaroo Care

of care for preterm infants who are relatively stable. The outcomes have suggested great improvements for preterm infants, includ...

Contrasts Between Culture and Medical Science in The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

experience, particularly that immigrant experience as it occurs within the modern medical environment, revolves around cultural un...

Literature Review on Ventilator Associated Pneumonia in Intensive Care Units and th Effects of Improved Oral Care

that inadequate understanding of the impact of oral health in the hospital setting can be evidenced, and Holmes (1996) further con...

Quality within Australian Nursing

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

The Ethics of Death and Dying: Is There a Duty to Die?

right to live if it is possible, one could well argue that it is never anyones duty to die. Battins essay, however, speaks of th...

A Case Study in Professional Responsibility

incomplete, they have not been tested for drugs and the training room that he had counted on using in their orientation is booked ...

Parental Involvement in Caring for Hospitalized Children

a transition where parental involvement in hospitalization has changed. In the past, parents had been expected to leave the hospi...

Examination of Beneficence/For the Patient's Good

long after all signs of consciousness have ceased. Is this "good"? Is this beneficent? The news tells us of parents confronting me...

Prescription Drug Problems

plan, while several public and private sects continue to fight for prescription drugs coverage. Election 2002 revisited the issue...

2 Studies on Orphaned Africans Reviewed

2008, 2005). In Namibia alone, officials expect that 13 percent of all children under the age of 15 will be orphans by 2006 (Aids...

Method Analysis in 'Analyzing Hospital Readmissions Using Statewide Discharge Databases'

the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...

Teenagers and Pallative Care

have changed considerably over the last century. This change is associated with a number of factors, the most prominent being our...

Community Health and the Nursing Care Theory of Jean Watson

and continues to do so, over the past two decades, as it was first published in 1979 (Falk-Rafael, 2000). In formulating her theor...

A Health Care Fraud Opinion

not just the physician but also the office assistant. The lesson that this case provides is that agreements regarding fraudulent ...

A Comparison of Two Hospitals

for a health care organization. Genesys took on an elaborate task in creating a wellness center where state of the art care can be...

Nursing and Statistics

which both of those impacts are important. The question of what statistics should be collected in a medical facility, however, is...

An Article Detailing Hypertension and its Treatment

In the article titled "Five steps to more effective treatment of hypertension in primary care" author Margaret Allen...

Leadership And Organizational Success

more than one-fourth of companies have not engaged in succession planning (OHara, 2005). Furthermore, global experience must be co...

Business Communication Skills Development

ideas and persuade as well. This is where interpersonal communication, or rather, communication between individuals (such as super...

Oral Language & Lessons Plans

twice-weekly in 15-minute sessions. The adult reading the books asked both literal and inferential questions of the children using...

Suing Fast Food Restaurants For Obesity

The dictionary defines this phrase as: "in fact, whether with a legal right or not" and "acting or existing in fact but without le...

Leadership in the East and the West

there will be a greater level of collectivism in areas which have are communist culture, such as China, is Muslim areas and those ...