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

Hamilton View proposes to provide a full range of options for seniors, beginning with independent living, moving into assisted liv...

grounds that it is not caring at all but rather reduces the patient to a process component that needs medical attention. While tr...

medical education, it changed all aspects of medical care and the relationships that exist between physician and patient (pp. 395)...

indwelling foley and compression boot. Her dressing is dry and intact. She was discharged with Percocet 5mg q6. Analysis and Out...

diagnosing it. It is not as if depression is difficult to diagnose. What is difficult is getting clients into facilities and to ad...

media seems to be sending mixed messages. Disney films routinely show two parent households, but then the characters are often in ...

state of the art technology. Their lives will be saved above the others. It is somewhat like the scenario when the Titanic went do...

felt she had no option but to take Asante with her. She left the child in the car and planned to come out periodically and check o...

of the patients in a single unit will be assigned to one RN; the other half will be assigned to another. Another will be availabl...

well. This study also appears to be sound scientifically. Its primary means of data analysis is statistical; the methods b...

in the world where health care is able to benefit from the best and the latest technologies (Improving Quality in a Changing Healt...

not a socially accepted occurrence. In America, contempt and disrespect stem from the aspect of aging against ones will, with peo...

(p. 835) among Medicaid residents of Massachusetts nursing homes between 1991 and 1994. This mixed method (i.e., quantitative as ...

This is significant to nursing because nurses have to learn to insert and remove the catheter from the patient which is sometimes ...

at where it was spent in 1997 20.7% was spent on inpatient care, 25.6 on out-patient care and 14% on pharmaceuticals (Anonymous, 2...

offering fewer and fewer benefits and with the high cost of medical visits, many people are simply avoiding their doctors offices....

fever and as such this is a product which satisfies a need as well as a desire. The main thrust of the...

of dying and that some of this research indicated significant differences in this awareness. This leads into a discussion of what ...

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

between August 25 and August 30, 2005, was one of the worst hurricanes of history. Hurricane Katrina howled ashore destroying ent...

(2004, August 3). Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Retrieved November 11, 2006 from http://www.cms.hhs.gov/apps/media/p...

included doctors, hospitals, lab work, dentistry and nursing (The history of Medicare). In addition, medical insurance for the nee...

are theoretically viable, but there is actually no evidence to support the claim that UPs will actually reduce the number of expos...

for further self-harm to occur. Pembrooke and Smith recommend, for example, that triage staff assume that even minor injuries repr...

well be lost" (Kalb, Murr and Raymond, 2005). AIDS patients couldnt always get their medication, some patients vanished completely...

move in concentric circles of caring--from individuals, to others, to community, to (the) world" (Vance, 2003). Caring science inv...

at some point throughout their lives, with three to five million Americans of both genders and all race/socioeconomic background o...

there had been speculation as to the reason for the devastation, it does not appear to have been from global warming. Katrina was ...

stability, while the goal of tertiary prevention "is to help the patient return to wellness following treatment" (Torakis and Smig...