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Frequency of Hemodialysis

2% were on home hemodialysis (Freitas, 2002, 167). There are many chronic problems associated with hemodialysis including hyper...

MANAGING HEALTHCARE FOR THE UNINSURED

The problem is that the system is broken when it comes to getting appropriate healthcare to the uninsured. Even if Congress passes...

END-OF-LIFE PLANNING, NURSING AND GUIDANCE

to provide adult individuals, at the time of inpatient admission (or enrollment) information about state laws rights concerning ad...

Health Care Staff Shortages

nurses by 2012 to eliminate the shortage (Rosseter, 2009). By 2020, the District of Columbia along with at least 44 states will ha...

REQUIREMENTS FOR A PATIENT EDUCATION PAMPHLET

and concisely, and there are no major medical terms that might cause someone to stumble. But theres nothing really exciting to loo...

Ethics in Palliative Care

regarded as creating obligations on others to help her exercise her rights. An inherent theme that is implied in all of the questi...

Big Pharma Exposed

grew from an average of seven in 1993 to an average of eleven in 2000 to an average of twelve in 2004 (Critser, 2007). At the tim...

Healthcare and the Dangers of Nosocomial Infections

services. However, the greatest cost of all has been to human life, because nosocomial infections have resulted in patient deaths...

The Need for Quicker Lab Results

whether or not a patient complaining of chest pains is having or has had a heart attack (American Clinical Laboratory Association,...

'Con' Argument on Quotas in Nursing

Sharon Bernier, RN, PhD and President of the National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing, points out that Aikens study also...

Community and Patient Nursing Care and Meningococcal Meningitis

the disease as well as around the prevention of the spread of the causative organism to other individuals that come into contact w...

Senior Citizen Mental Illness Workplace Management and Prevention of Violence

to nonadherence to medication in the mentally ill elderly is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connot...

Overview of the Evaluation and Quality Improvement Program by the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards

of standards with sets of criteria that must achieved. Standards related to information management span the operations of the orga...

Balance of Philosophy and Nursing Values

not money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely woul...

Nursing Diabetes Patient Education Internet Websites

on diabetes into categories and addresses these topics on separate web pages, as does the first site. The homepage explains that t...

Right to Die Defense

and the bitterness on both sides of that unfortunate incident have brought the debate about the right-to-die to the fore. Ironi...

Patients and Diabetes

of condition in terms of importance due the impact on lifestyle and ability to result in death is not treated correctly (King et a...

Stroke Patient and Increases in Urinary Tract Infections

third of women with urinary tract infection will experience a recurrence during the following year, with recurrence being most com...

Hispanics and Diabetes Management

Have you had any experience in helping a friend or family member manage diabetes? The patient replied that she was not aware of...

Critical Modality of Humor

In three pages this research paper discusses how humor can be a modality that assists nurses in patient care as well as self care....

Home Oxygen Therapy

and TCPL2. The precise level of oxygen allowed per patient is prescribed by the patients physician. Too much or too little can b...

Nurse's Role in Patient Assessments

of a unified health care organization that included both Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH...

Dorothea Orem and Florence Nightingale on Nursing Theories, Beliefs, and Values

prepared for this role" (McKenna, 1997, p. 87). Perhaps most significant of all was Florence Nightingales belief that env...

Asthma Survey Results

this may not improve sleep quality (Mulcahy, 2004). One study has indicated that treatment with melatonin may aid sleep (Barry, 20...

Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Images of Darkness and Light

with the world of tradition, the world of civilization. Huddled within the womb-like interior of the Congo, he retreats ever furth...

Treatment Alternatives for CHF Besides Surgery

performed are not always that promising. To further complicate the success of SVR the age-old problem of surgery-related depressi...

Exploration of Congestive Heart Failure

In seven pages this medical condition is examined in terms of its symptoms and treatment with a consideration of the role depressi...

Acquired Brain Injury Patients and PT

every one-thousand children. Some forty-one thousand children aged five to fourteen in the U.S. alone are inflicted with this con...

Terminal Patients and Hospice Healthcare

we all must personally face. Dealing with the death of a loved one, however, can be considerably more difficult than facing the f...

2005's Safe Nursing and Patient Act, Legal and Ethical Concerns

is simply to require that their nursing staff make up for understaffing by working mandatory overtime on a more or less permanent ...