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mineral supplement" every day (Ungvarski, 1996). Empirical evidence shows that there is a "synergistic and interactive relations...
As we live longer, we are subject to acquiring one or more chronic illnesses, some of which come with advancing age. Older age ran...
More than 25 percent of patients with heart failure are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge and half are readmi...
intensive care unit (ICU) (Scholle and Mininni, 2006, p. 37). Bedside nurses are encouraged in many hospitals to make a MET call...
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 ...
leaders should facilitate their development of trans-cultural nursing skills such as being able to assess patterns that are eviden...
background and knowledge to evaluate when there is a need to consult a transcultural nurse specialist, as these specially trained ...
Budget cutbacks, burnout and lack of student enrollment have precluded sufficient staffing in many critical areas of healthcare. ...
anxiety or address a family problem, they may prefer faith-based counseling simply because its in a language that fits them and th...
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 ...
route of accessible health care to growing numbers of Americans. Harvards Clayton Christensen has long preached the gospel ...
MIS Guidelines? Certainly the publication addresses resource utilization, but does it specifically address creation of a new unit...
motor vehicle crashes, substance abuse, and illegal behavior" (Visser, Lesesne and Perou, 2007, S99). Symptoms include irritabili...
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...
patient, the attending nurse is seldom in the room at the same time. The attending physician may refer the patient to a cardiologi...
and Blood Institute, 2007). Zardi and colleagues (2008) referred to this procedure as the "gold standard" (p. 48) for assessing th...
movement disorders, such as Parkinsons and dystonia. This procedure was initially developed in 1987 in France (Song, 2006). This a...
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 ...
There are numerous regulations and codes that mandate and/or guide the mental health professional on the subject of confidentialit...
Few people realize how vulnerable healthcare operations systems, from electronic health records to connected medical devices, are ...
This research paper presents an descriptive discussion of scholarly literature that pertains to telehealth technology and its appl...
This paper presents a type 2 diabetes mellitus overview that describes its pathology and its effect on specific organ systems, as ...
life in prison for patient death (Jacko & Sears, 2003). HIPAA is comprised of five major titles that are applicable to each provi...
"encouragement of facing probl4ems/fears, support of efforts to master problems/ears, affective experiencing/catharsis" (Coady 15)...
This paper deals with the issue of traumatic brain injury and coma, which includes the trauma of families facing the decision as t...
This paper discusses a major health care organization and its diversity. Several topics are discussed: data regarding diversity, m...