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has left the facility and has gone home to the comforts of home in order to spend the last days, weeks or months of their life in ...

development of nurse-operated continence centers, which provide conservative management for UI (Bernier, 2002). Continence nurses...

All of these studies reflect empirical studies of hospital populations in an effort to determine how changes in the healthcare env...

a good nurse ... Id spend more time with their families. If I were a good nurse, I would ..." (Williams, 2001; p. 24ac2)....

health information is pivotal to the efforts of practitioners in promoting health, changing behaviors and attitudes, and preventin...

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in these traditional groups try to retain their language and keep their heritage alive to an extent. Their native languages of cou...

The Clinical Workstation Application of the 3M(tm) Care Innovation Expert Applications system focuses on providing clinicians and ...

who are suffering from chronic ailments such as congestive heart failure, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), asthma and...

personnel needs of the PCT and develop a strategic development plan so that the needs of the PCT are met with the ultimate aim of ...

actionable and for the bringing of cases to be controlled. We may also argue that they also serve a purpose in restricting and cre...

how things were effected, but rather, the investigation goes to why. One may glean, from reading this book, that America was prope...

can be blamed on the political process in which any workable attempts to control costs were met with accusations of rationing heal...

issues difficult to address, in that there is often an interchange of duties as a means by which to compensate for the sometimes-i...

The purpose - indeed the entire study - does not specifically identify variables that can be labeled as independent. It is not an...

patient (Seidel, 2004). This author also states that effective communication is something that can and must be learned (Seidel, 2...

because they do not have the means to get medical attention (Center for American Progress, 2007). Health care costs seem to rise e...

from large teaching hospitals, leaving them with the more seriously ill patients, whose care also is the most costly (Johnson and ...

agony? Medicine was not always the assembly line it is today. According to Pescosolido and Boyer, there were three events that ch...

begins with "orientation," which is a period in which the nurse and the patient become acquainted. The relationship then proceeds ...

(Jennings, 2005). The reason for the huge increases in health care costs is not the insurance companies, Jennings found, but the f...

good for them. One of the best approaches to this subject is in Vine Deloria and Clifford Lytles excerpt, The nations within, whi...

birth, it is critical to interact with the infant, to touch and cuddle and talk with the infant, to provide a safe and nurturing e...

conversation with MaryAlice Mowry," 2003). Many people do not realize that government benefits aligned with disabilities would be ...

the fever? Was it related to an infection in the surgical wound? Was the patient developing atelectasis and pneumonia? Or, was the...

situation. As a provider of care, it is the role of the community health nurse to address the needs of Centerville adolescents i...

the rate of such hospital mergers. One of these trends was the "phenomenon of Columbia/HCA," a for-profit hospital system that man...

be vulnerable to abuse or neglect for a variety of reasons and in a variety of situations, which range from home care to care in r...

knowledge safely and appropriately" (p. 17). Morath (2003) went so far as to state clearly that the U.S. healthcare system is dang...

quality of care is approached, while at the same time find ways to reduce costs. It has also been noted that socialized health ca...