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Evaluation of "Analyzing Hospital Readmissions Using Statewide Discharge Databases"

of outcomes of care - Source of unnecessary - and high - costs - Fragmented state to state - Based on varied data * The problem ha...

Mentally Ill Elderly/Syphilis Screening

A 5 page research paper that offers a summary of evidence relating STD incidence in older populations and how whether nor this con...

Care Partners/RNs & PCTs

the supply by 2010 (Kleinman and Saccomano, 2006). Traditional nursing care models, such as primary nursing, are founded on the su...

Morbidity and Mortality, Introduction of ART on HIV

This research paper presents a proposed project that address the introduction of antiretroviral therapy in regards to treating HIV...

Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: The Legal and Ethical Dimensions

or another, enter into ethical quandaries as a result of their regular operations. This is because virtually all organizational ac...

Patient Advocacy, A Concept Analysis

as a central tenet to professional practice (Hanks, 2010). Both the American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics and the Code ...

Music Therapy and Cancer Patients

In twelve pages a literature review is included in this hypothetical study that considers the effects and potential benefits of mu...

Mental Illness and Confidentiality Issues

In seven pages this paper explores the Tarasoff v. Regents Of The University of California case in this consideration of mental il...

Psychopathology Case Analayis

This paper addresses psychopathology in respect to employment and education and evaluates influences on the lives of various patie...

An Examination of Selective Immunoglobulin Isotype Deficiencies and Agammaglobulinaemia

were widely available, many children affected with XLA did not live through their first decade. The less common alymphocytotic ty...

Watchdog Group of Dental Providers

In three pages how dentists can act as a watchdog group in terms of identification and reporting adult female patient abuse cases ...

'Don't Call Me Sweetie!' Australia Nursing Study Reviewed

In six pages this paper examines nursing care from the perspectives of nurses and patients as reported by this Australian study. ...

Pain Management Choices and Patients Rights

quite succinctly. The Dax Cowart case, that has become rather well known, involves a seriously injured man who was left ...

Deep Wound Infection and Blood Glucose Levels: A Proposed Study

infections can, of course, relate to a number of factors. The type of care needed can vary both according to the type of wound an...

Deep Wound Infection and Blood Glucose Levels: A Proposed Study

not just in adverse impacts to the patients themselves but also in significant societal costs. Wounds that are improperly cared f...

Corporate Strategy Influences by Company Regulations

Cases such as British Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd v Armstrong Patents Co Ltd (1986) illustrated the way in which the older statu...

Nurse Patient Ratios in Patient Safety, The California Law

This nursing practicum proposal focuses on the mandated nurse-to-patient ratios that have been implemented in California. The writ...

Patient Simulators/Human Patients in Nursing Education

age. Therefore, the patient population is increasing. This factor is also influenced by the fact that that the huge lump in the Am...

Patient Compliance & CHF Nursing Care

While CHF has a mortality rate that ten times that of AIDS and is also responsible for far more hospitalizations than cancer, even...

Quality Nursing Care

whoever the client might be, that is, an individual, family, group or community. The third provision indicates that nurses are als...

Depression: To Medicate Or Not

2004). This is to say nothing of the side effects that accompany every drug manufactured to treat depression. Contrastingly, hol...

Patient’s Possessions & Cultural Competency

arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways and all other products of human work and thought..." (Purnell, 2005, p. 7). It is the eth...

Influence Of Therapeutic Setting In Psychoanalysis

counselor, often causing even greater tension than what already exists and drawing away from the ability to forge an alliance. Se...

Health Care Providers, the Patient, and the Patient Self Determination Act

policies in regard to the PSDA. I have been fortunate in that I was chosen to be a member of that team. Consequently, I have at ...

Legal and Medical Issues Associated with a Patient's 'Right to Die'

providers and also provide a well-balanced outline about the issues involved in a patients "right to die" (Hendin, Foley and White...

Literature Review on a Cancer Patient's Emotional Needs

It seems that within the context of the work, there is little compassion shown for the protagonist with the exception of one oncol...

Patients’ Bill of Rights

is designed to ensure that "Patients have access to needed care" and that healthcare providers are "free to practice medicine with...

Patient Falls, Patient Safety and Communication

This paper is made up of three sections, with each section pertaining to a significant hospital administration issue. These topics...

Mishel's Uncertainty In Illness Theory

is the development of Mishels Uncertainty in Illness Scale (MUIS), which is comprised of twenty-eight item measure that utilizes a...

Examination of Beneficence/For the Patient's Good

long after all signs of consciousness have ceased. Is this "good"? Is this beneficent? The news tells us of parents confronting me...