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

on an evidenced based evidence based practice and the development of increased individual accountability in the area of clinical g...

learned long ago the value of yet another Deming (1986) exhortation, that of continuous improvement. By definition, the concept i...

the disease as well as around the prevention of the spread of the causative organism to other individuals that come into contact w...

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

caring as the very definition of what constitutes personal values from a nursing perspective (2003). Koerner (1996), likewise, e...

Critically-Care nurses, 1989 in Nursing Management, 1999, p. 38). This abbreviated version of AACN nursing standards was located...

moment to moment as the changing patterns of shifting perspectives weave the fabric of life through the human-universe interconnec...

classifies the stroke patients needs in four domains: 1) medical/surgical issues; 2) mental status/emotion/coping behaviors; 3) ph...

also a former student of Vivians is now in the rather awkward position of also being one of her doctors, as he is an intern and re...

to a hospital, where he was intubated so that he could receive nutrition. He was again returned to Eastbrooke3 on July 23, 1990, w...

of every single employee. If youre not thinking all the time about making every person more valuable, you dont have a chance. Wh...

article, "Mother-Infant Skin-to-Skin Contact (Kangaroo Care)," kangaroo care offers the parents the only opportunity to engage in ...

A 7 page client profile that discusses nursing care for an elderly client with degenerative brain disease and offers a research su...

of the study by stating it explicitly: "The purpose of this study was to explore how undergraduate nursing students learn to care ...

is in charge of all domestic affairs. Younger newly wed couples will often live with one set of parents, even if they are going to...

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

by the caring physical presence of this nurse in her last remaining hours. However, the way in which this case turned out saw the ...

over between the social and the medical areas, the care plan needs to look at each and determine the way in which these will be de...

This paper considers how nurses can become an agent of change in regard to ageism, the myths surrounding it, and the care of older...

This research paper consists of a longer version of khebptech.doc. The paper offers additional information on the impact that EBP ...

This paper pertains to an ethical dilemma faced by hospital nurses caring for patients who are Jehovah's Witnesses. Adherent of th...

caring; 2. every human culture has lay (generic, folk or indigenous) care knowledge and practices and usually some professional ca...

that came from realizing that even though she had not spent time with elderly people since her own grandparents, she harbored grea...

with sudden flashbacks intruding on thoughts (Fagan and Freme, 2004). Other symptoms include: an exaggerated startle reflex, sleep...

testing instrument in the United States (Nurse and Sperry, 2004). First developed by Starke Hathaway and Charnley McKinley in 194...

Information technology plays a major role in mitigating different issues such as increasing demand, constrained resources, continu...

First seen as an occasional point of minor and temporary discomfort, there seemed to be other, more "important" issues to assess. ...

own studies in numerous areas, such as formal logic, metaphysics, action theories, and to her readings of Aristotle, Aquinas and m...

remainder in expanded Health Savings Accounts" (Straight talk, 2008). As for the currently uninsured, McCains plan is to work with...