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Nursing Shortage

higher nurse-to-patient ratios suffer an increased rate of burnout and experience greater dissatisfaction with their jobs. In resp...

New Performance Measure for Hospitals

There is a new method of assessment for the performance of hospitals. It is national and standardized which will allow consumers a...

Healthy Work Environments: Decision Making In Nursing

volumes regarding the vastness of the human mind. Moreover, it is virtually impossible to have critical thinking present without ...

Theories of Leadership and Nursing

"organization does not need transforming" (Transformational leadership, 2007). Transactional leadership is much in keeping with ...

Margaret Sanger

hold a great deal of authority when it comes to changing the attitudes and perspectives of young girls who may believe living off ...

Continuing Education

the "5 As," the steps are: 1) ask the patient if he or she smokes, 2) advise him or her to quit, 3) assess the willingness to...

A Nursing Analysis of 'A Study of Practicing Nurses Perceptions and Experiences of Intimacy within the Nurse-Patient Relationship'

it is useful to follow certain well-established frameworks for critique of qualitative research. For the purposes of this report, ...

Preventing Childhood Obesity

This paper introduces the concept of childhood obesity and why it is important for the CDC to address the issue. Communication met...

Elder Abuse In Community Facilities

treatment, rendering them victims in the ongoing breakdown of Americas health care system. According to Marks (1996), there are -...

Possible Case of Elder Abuse

There are many kinds of abuse, including mismanagement of their money, physical and/or emotional abuse, and neglect. It is a trage...

Organizational Behavior Problem in Hospitals

A study by the Joint Commission revealed that communication failures were implicated at the root of over 70 percent of sentinel ev...

Respiratory Care/Geriatric Case Study

on nursing care, particularly when considering the psychological factors of this model (Saliba, 2006). Breathing is one of the b...

Teaching about Breast Cancer

prefer the least invasive surgical option, others prefer the traditional approach (Katz and Hawley, 2007). Therefore, a major topi...

Empirical Evaluation

healing. Respondents who reported moderate stress before group (56.3%) experienced a decrease (43.8%) after group that dropped th...

Dogs And Physical Therapy: How An Injured Athlete Can Benefit From A Trained Pit Bull

minds ability to help in this process cannot be overlooked. Social theory has long attributed animals to being a life-altering co...

Compare Contrast Medical Care Two Countries

Many countries across the world offer universal health care. This is especially prevalent in Europe, the UK, and UK possessions, e...

Impact of Persistent Diseases

As we live longer, we are subject to acquiring one or more chronic illnesses, some of which come with advancing age. Older age ran...

Justice In The Labor Market For Women According To Age, Education And Work Experience: Southeast Region Of Puerto Rico

growing and the rate of unemployment falling, male labor force participation dropped by 3 percentage points...In sum, the U.S.-Pue...

Negligence Or Malpractice?

results from the diagnostic test; as such, the case definitely leans toward malpractice. Two glaring points that support this cha...

Canadian Welfare, 1935-1970

public health care program in 1962 (A brief history, 2007). Subsequently, a Royal Commission recommended a "universal and comprehe...

Demography Of Aging: Impact Upon Life, Job And Society

both generations; their lives by having to virtually give up themselves and their interests, passions or aspirations just to have ...

Impact of Insured on St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

pay for treatment that is not covered by insurance and families without insurance are not required to pay (SJCRH, 2008). Furthermo...

Impact Of Organized Health Care System: Over- Or Underestimated?

The major players in the United States health services system include physicians, health service institution administrators, insur...

A Review of Deborah Witt Sherman's Article, 'Nurses' willingness to care for AIDS patients and spirituality, social support, and death anxiety'

"spirituality and perceived social support may also be corollaries to nurses willingness to care for AIDS patients (205)"...

Issues In Health Care

extent to which the managed care approach has created a complicated, ineffective health care system is both grand and far-reaching...

The Problems Inherent in the Canadian Health Care System and Attempts at Reform

10 pages and 7 sources. This paper provides an overview of the existing problems that appear to be inherent in the Canadian healt...

An Article Critique of 'Effects Of Case Management On The Nursing Context - Perceived Quality Of Care, Work Satisfaction, And Control Over Practice'

one after another in spite of their good care. "The primary goals for the case management project were to ascertain if case manag...

Closeness and Distance: A Way of Handling Difficult Situations in Daily Care

the strategies that nurses are currently using to address these types of difficult situations. The qualitative approach utilize...

Cultural Considerations and the U.S. Health Care System

and others is becoming more and more diverse. Mwaura (2006) emphasizes that every culture has experienced a similar evolu...

Diabetes in Adolescence

between cases at the time of diagnosis (Newmark and Anhalt, 2007). Type 1 diabetes is typically due to a "lack of insulin producti...