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Persistent Vegetative State Patients and Ethical Decision Making

the balloon, and certain gestures, were definite responses to the environment and evidence of consciousness, but the doctors disag...

Home Care Senior Citizen Patients and Chronic Undertreatment

2. constant monitoring for potential complications 3. the willingness to utilize both pharmacological and nonpharmacologi...

Relationship Between Patient Mechanical Ventilation and Oral Hygiene

billions in additional health care cost. Likewise, Houston, et al (2002) substantiate that contraction of nosocomial pneumonia co...

Family Nurse Practitioner

either ill or injured, and therefore requires the aid of health care professionals. One might also feel that "person" underscores ...

Ethical Issues in Mental Health Care Practice

This research team selected homeless adolescents as the focus for their study. While, in general, the concept that informed parent...

Enhancing Total Quality Management at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Guam

quite a leap to effectively apply its principles to service industries, but TQM is as much at home in health care as it is in manu...

Real-Time Information in the Hospital Setting

real-time applications, patient records are updated instantly as information is added to them. Thus the physician making rounds h...

Hospital Information Systems

interfaces with the a new computerized patient order entry system. Therapists use tablets at the patient bedside, which enhances m...

Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use in Canada

This research paper pertains to the growing utilization of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies by the Canadian ...

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

This is a federal law that addresses the privacy of patients/clients who see health care professionals. This essay identifies the ...

The PPACA and Individual Mandate

This research paper pertains to the positions held by those who oppose and those who support the Patient Protection and Affordable...

US Medical System and Reform

This research paper pertains to the perspective of public health professionals and the reforms needed and addressed by the Patient...

Addressing Issues in the HCAHPS

Systems (HCAHPS) is a patient satisfaction survey and assessment of the level of quality care provided by hospitals and healthcare...

Abstract for a Fall Intervention Policy Proposal

increased; the incidence rate has risen from 15% to 35%. The problem is the increase in the rate of falls and a need to reduce the...

One European Universal Health System

but that is limited to 2 percent of the familys annual income or 1 percent for those who have chronic illnesses (Clarke, 2012). Th...

Reducing Falls in Home Based Patients

implemented. The initial implementation will be for a three month period with a pilot area, which will be used to optimise the f...

Reducing Falls Rates - Presentation of a Proposal

The paper is a presentation made up 12 slides and notes for the speaker. The presentation outlines a protocol for a new multifact...

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...

Needs Assessment for an Administrator of Patient Care Services for Women's Healthcare Services

often impacts the health and well-being of other members in a family (Miami Valley Hospital, 2004). As a result, the Womens Healt...

Herbal Medicine/What Nurses Should Know

not as drugs, which means that these remedies do not undergo the rigorous testing that is required for prescription medicines (He...

Refusal of Palliative Care/Bioethics

this incident may have contributed to her divorce. It is also true that her mother has had a problem with alcoholism for over twen...

Statistics in Surgical ICU

within institutions where manual charting of ventilators settings is performed well, "automatic data collection can eliminate dela...

A Community Health Issue in Kentucky/Smoking Cessation

Orem defines a "self-care deficit" as when a clients condition or injury prohibits that individuals ability to meet the requiremen...

PATIENT SAFETY AND CONSUMER-DIRECTED HEALTH CARE

had pushed through legislation mandating mandatory medical error reporting (Hosford, 2008). Additionally, and perhaps more importa...

Hospital Medicare Reimbursement

to take expensive prescription medications as prescribed. This acerbates medical conditions and results in increases in acuity lev...

Gap Analysis: Global Communications

Horngren, Sundem and Stratton (2002) provide a view of the alternatives available to organizations in Global Communications positi...

Basic Rights in Health Care

are told what they should do by their physicians. For example, if a patient visits a doctor and due to age parameters, he or she w...

Health Care Organizations :

is not an expectation based on fact or knowledge, it is based on hope. 2. Clinicians personal and professional values Personal ...

Appalachian Patient: Cultural Considerations For Medical Treatment

proximity and/or behavior man has imposed upon his own species. Social norms play an integral role in both setting and meeting th...

Diabetes: Alternative Health Care

of which includes diabetes (Samuels et al 55). Auricle pressure points - comprise over half of the more than 400 acupuncture poin...