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to any injury to the head that impairs subsequent brain functioning. While mild TBI can appear to have left the individual unimpai...
the various roles and responsibilities that the specialty involves, they share the common quality that the nursing process is inhe...
have on patient outcomes. It was found patients from the Mexican American families, where there was a lower level of EE were also ...
is based on the greatest good for the greatest number of people. Or, it could be the greatest pleasure or good over the least pain...
percent of that total population lose their ability to walk (Tonarelli, 2010). Hip injuries and falls of any kind can reduce the ...
use of continuing education to improve patient care (Sterman, Gauker & Krieger, 2003). Effects of nursing rounds, call light use, ...
disorder that is characterized by obsessions, i.e., thoughts, and/or compulsions, acts that must be done. The acts become rituals....
the highest readmission rates for congestive heart failure (CHF), as well as other conditions (DeFelice, et al, 2010). Initially, ...
abnormal (Yadkin, 2011). The ratio between the BUN reading and creatinine should not be greater than 20:1 or less than 10:1 and th...
agent, such as an adult child or another proxy. In recent years, the DNR has been included in the Physicians Orders for Life Susta...
beneficial or having no impact, negative or positive on most patients outcomes (Agarwal et al, 2009; Masip et al, 2005). The ben...
can be easily determined via the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) and by testing fasting plasma glucose (FPG), as these tests ar...
serious, potentially fatal, but preventable, complication of diabetes mellitus that occurs when there is insufficient insulin to m...
any of the organizations system which are not available to the general public, which will include the patient records it should be...
the age 65 have hypertension (Sirkin and Rosner 2009, p. 402). Hypertension leads to a lesser quality of life for the patient and ...
for a long period of time. It may be noted that the problem was caused by steroid use when jerry was in his 20s, and the dangers w...
income (Douglas & Burke, 2010; Kaiser Family Foundation, 2011). Medicare taxes on net investment income will also increase from 0....
was a patient protection initiative which incorporated a requirement for there to be set nasty patient ratios in healthcare system...
nurse to patient ratio in California. In 1992 and 1993 the California Nurses Association has sponsored the Democratic Senator Jack...
last start up cost is the start up training costs for the staff, if the staff are to be brought in from external sources there may...
primary symptoms of COPD are "wheezing, cough, dyspnea on exertion and increased phlegm production" (Touhy and Jett, 2012, p. 289)...
of falls in elderly chronic patients at that home. 1c. Discuss findings with supervisor/mentor. 1a. The creation of a detailed...
support of a nurse that can keep these patients inspired to continue the positive health behaviors that ensure their continued goo...
The writer looks at a hospital planning on implementing a web chat facility on their corporate web site to increase communication...
with chronic conditions to live longer, despite the presence of these conditions. However, the pharmaceutical innovations that mak...
using CHOP alone. This study involved 399 patients who were 60 years of age and older in the advanced stages of NHL ("Adult NHL,"...
who perofmed the first heart transplant and Patrick Steptoe who was responsible for the first test tube baby. These are m...
prohibited from working over 12 hours in a 24-hour period or more than 60 hours per week for 2 years ("Criminal case," 2007). Th...
In a paper of six pages, the author writes about research on the problem of workplace violence against nurses. The studies used i...
and they fear that it will lead to indulgence in risky sexual behaviors. Furthermore, lack of education or understanding of HPV an...