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Data Collection Tools/Patient Safety

This research paper addresses selection of data collection and other relevant tools for use in a quality improvement project that...

Frequent Nocturnal Urination, Older Male Patient

This paper focuses on the problem of nocturia, which refers to frequent nighttime urination. Assessment, causes, and management ar...

Terminal Care Patients, Families, Nursing Staff, and Effective Communication

Understanding that there is a step by step progression, both physically and psychologically, can be part of the nurses role in thi...

Different Method to Control Mental Health Patients

Seclusion and constraints have been the traditional way to control mental health patients when they lose control. This has always ...

Symptoms of Schizophrenia and Comments from Patients

2004). this symptom is sufficient for a diagnosis (HealthyPlace.com). Schizophrenia is treated with both drugs and therapeutic i...

Dementia Patients and Use of Restraint

with at least one individuals background in patient care in conjunction with the theorists higher awareness of the interaction of ...

Critiquing Epictetus's Philosophy

what one wants, and visualizing it, that one will eventually be free from the gnawing desire. This is true either through attainme...

Nurse/Patient Ratios/Not One Size Fits All

assisting registered nurses (RNs) in order to meet legislated requirements (Schaefer 9). This means that while RNs have fewer pati...

Teaching Patients How to Use the Internet

look for the date that the page was last updated to ensure that the latest health information on that subject is offered. The last...

“The American Indians”: A Critique of the Web Site

cell phone. There are numerous other hints, however, that "The American Indians" web site is more of a commercial site than a tru...

Pathologic Gambling In Parkinson's Disease Patients Using Dopamine Agonist

which dopamine agonists and levodopa therapy works synergistically to provide physical benefits is both grand and far-reaching; th...

Doctor - Patient Confidentiality

Hippocratic oath extends not just to what a patient might tell a doctor but also to what a doctor concludes in regard to a patient...

Nursing Home Patients And Their Vulnerabilities During Disasters

food, clean water and - most important for some people who did not survive - electricity to keep their life-sustaining equipment r...

Marketing Research Study Critique

the advertising copy as being crucial to whether or not consumers would respond to the advertising message. It was found that cons...

Assistive Devices & The Elderly/Maintaining Independence

This study employed a prospective pre-test and a post-test randomized control trial design and a sample group of 53 senior adults ...

Enhancing Cultural Competency

leaders should facilitate their development of trans-cultural nursing skills such as being able to assess patterns that are eviden...

What Can Therapists Say About Patients

There are numerous regulations and codes that mandate and/or guide the mental health professional on the subject of confidentialit...

Mandatory Overtime, An Issue that Endangers Patients

This essay gives an overview of why mandatory overtime for nursing staff is a significant issue that as the potential to harm pati...

Patient Safety and DMAIC

This research paper/essay pertains to a hospital improvement project that involved medication administration and involved the DMAI...

Elderly Patients/Insulin Administration

This paper consists of a table that provides details from seven research studies that all describe insulin administration and elde...

Consumers and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

This paper considers the relative impact of Obamacare. Texans in particular have not always benefited from the federal mandate on...

Elderly Patients/Insulin Administration

This paper pertains to an EBP project proposal that involves a shift from SSI (sliding scale insulin) to the basal-bolus approach....

Decreasing Re-Hospitalization in CHF Patients

This research paper pertains to a proposal for a capstone project in which telemonitoring and skilled nursing visits are utilized ...

Nursing Home Care for Dementia Patients: Speaker Notes:

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

Reducing Re-hospitalization of CHF Patients

This paper presents the speaker notes to an eighteen page PowerPoint presentation, khteleCHF.ppt, which pertains to a project that...

Faith-Based Counseling

anxiety or address a family problem, they may prefer faith-based counseling simply because its in a language that fits them and th...

Nursing Shortage In The United States: Causes, Effects And Solutions

Budget cutbacks, burnout and lack of student enrollment have precluded sufficient staffing in many critical areas of healthcare. ...

Recent Encounter with a Patient with Chest Pain

This research paper pertains to a nursing encounter in which a patient presented with chest pain. The writer discusses NIC, NOC an...

Balancing Patient Confidentiality and Other Ethical Principles

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

Adverse Drug Reaction Among Elderly Patients: Impact Upon Costs And Length Of Hospital Stay

population want to be able to take care of themselves, yet they are rarely given the tools with which to accomplish this objective...