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mineral supplement" every day (Ungvarski, 1996). Empirical evidence shows that there is a "synergistic and interactive relations...
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...
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. ...
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 ...
Culturally competent care appropriate for a psychiatric hospital is considered a basic and primary component of nursing given the ...
such as tragedies, deaths, serious injuries or threatening situations, require the human being to respond in a way that intensifie...
route of accessible health care to growing numbers of Americans. Harvards Clayton Christensen has long preached the gospel ...
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...
intensive care unit (ICU) (Scholle and Mininni, 2006, p. 37). Bedside nurses are encouraged in many hospitals to make a MET call...
MIS Guidelines? Certainly the publication addresses resource utilization, but does it specifically address creation of a new unit...
include an understanding of how insulin functions to control glucose levels and the interaction between variables that can affect ...
some determining the study was inconclusive, others saying certain interventions should be made universal and still others stating...
management (DM) concept Disease management (DM) is defined as a "systematic clinical improvement process," which addresses both ...
As described by Araich (2001), four nursing strategies effectively summarize how a critical care nurse can use the RAM to aid a ca...
ask these questions because he is trying to find out if the patient has any understanding as to why his behavior makes him uneasy;...
patient care (Hassmiller and Cozine, 2006). Some strategies proposed by RWJF for helping to decrease the tremendous workload on nu...
predicting mortality and morbidity. Authors provide a section to explain and explore the existence of natriuretic peptides. Anoth...
in resistant strains of bacteria (Plonczynski, 2005). This situation suggests that changes in antibiotic prophylactic procedures ...
patient (Seidel, 2004). This author also states that effective communication is something that can and must be learned (Seidel, 2...
phases of gait, the kinematics of the anatomical knee and the specific issues for pediatric prosthetic knee users, relates some of...
Researchers have identified nutrition as a significant factor in wound healing. In fact, it has been argued that nutritional elem...
utilized a taurolidine and citrate solution to eliminate the catheter biofilm which is associated with infection. Taurolidine was...
the DSM IV-TR (Therapydoc, 2007). The next one is due sometimes in 2012 (Therapydoc, 2007). It will no doubt change etiologies, di...
are fatigued often have trouble dealing successfully with their illness. In this article Benzein and Berg note that "Hope, hopeles...
This ANA Code also specifically includes the possibility that "inappropriate disclosure" can occur by using "identifiable patient ...
there is no cure either for Alzheimers disease or the various forms of dementia on the horizon, healthcare practitioners should "i...