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mineral supplement" every day (Ungvarski, 1996). Empirical evidence shows that there is a "synergistic and interactive relations...
nurses should understand these patients thoroughly, "who they are, where they live and with whom, their current health status and ...
HIV-positive nurses being a threat to patients and other health care workers. Research clearly supports the reality of the situat...
intensive care unit (ICU) (Scholle and Mininni, 2006, p. 37). Bedside nurses are encouraged in many hospitals to make a MET call...
background and knowledge to evaluate when there is a need to consult a transcultural nurse specialist, as these specially trained ...
leaders should facilitate their development of trans-cultural nursing skills such as being able to assess patterns that are eviden...
anxiety or address a family problem, they may prefer faith-based counseling simply because its in a language that fits them and th...
Budget cutbacks, burnout and lack of student enrollment have precluded sufficient staffing in many critical areas of healthcare. ...
such as tragedies, deaths, serious injuries or threatening situations, require the human being to respond in a way that intensifie...
Culturally competent care appropriate for a psychiatric hospital is considered a basic and primary component of nursing given the ...
not as drugs, which means that these remedies do not undergo the rigorous testing that is required for prescription medicines (He...
Heart disease is known to have a significant relationship with depression, which can greatly complicate the processes inherent in ...
More than 25 percent of patients with heart failure are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge and half are readmi...
As we live longer, we are subject to acquiring one or more chronic illnesses, some of which come with advancing age. Older age ran...
motor vehicle crashes, substance abuse, and illegal behavior" (Visser, Lesesne and Perou, 2007, S99). Symptoms include irritabili...
someone who was less than one of the "real nurses," in his estimation, he found that the young nursing assistant accomplished the...
patient, the attending nurse is seldom in the room at the same time. The attending physician may refer the patient to a cardiologi...
and Perou (2007) report that an estimated five to eighteen percent of youth in the US are diagnosed with ADHD and most receive so...
by Johansson, Dahlstrom and Brostrom (2006), they found 10 studies that examine4d the relationship between depression in HF patien...
focusing equally upon causes and prevention as it is upon treatment and sustained recovery (Feig et al, 2006). Also known as uter...
blank slate for the imaginings of those around him, particularly Hana. Myth "crosses international boundaries and offers apparentl...
the insertion of a central line, threaded through a vein, and it was once believed that it would aid cancer patients, restoring ap...
the situation, the charge nurse might take a number of different actions in response to this information. For example, the charge ...
had pushed through legislation mandating mandatory medical error reporting (Hosford, 2008). Additionally, and perhaps more importa...
to take expensive prescription medications as prescribed. This acerbates medical conditions and results in increases in acuity lev...
movement disorders, such as Parkinsons and dystonia. This procedure was initially developed in 1987 in France (Song, 2006). This a...
and Blood Institute, 2007). Zardi and colleagues (2008) referred to this procedure as the "gold standard" (p. 48) for assessing th...
to base their arguments on more spiritual and ethereal ground, such as the idea that a persons life ends when God chooses to end i...
in place for some time, and none of the fears surrounding it have ever materialized (Seale, 2006). Research shows that 171 people ...
life in prison for patient death (Jacko & Sears, 2003). HIPAA is comprised of five major titles that are applicable to each provi...