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the written record. The patient also adamantly refuses a recommended treatment, but he is only 16 years old. The parents go along ...
this may not improve sleep quality (Mulcahy, 2004). One study has indicated that treatment with melatonin may aid sleep (Barry, 20...
performed are not always that promising. To further complicate the success of SVR the age-old problem of surgery-related depressi...
natural selection and the "accumulated mutations, deletions, duplications, and other changes" incurred by CYP families, they now a...
an overview of the issues that surround massage and the literature that support the fact that it is an effective approach in the t...
nursing skill levels and patient mix" (Minimum staff levels, 2004, p. 33). However, the researchers found that a "greater total nu...
care home agencies also offer data on each service that is provided by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and acco...
Visiting Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Tulsa. Linda W. Cardillo is a doctoral student in the School of...
Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Tulsa. Linda W. Cardillo is a doctoral student in the School of Journali...
blank slate for the imaginings of those around him, particularly Hana. Myth "crosses international boundaries and offers apparentl...
Patient adherence to a prescribed chemotherapy is particularly crucial to the goal of positive patient outcomes in regards to trea...
is not an expectation based on fact or knowledge, it is based on hope. 2. Clinicians personal and professional values Personal ...
there is very little information about predisposes people to these episodes (Swann, 2006). Therefore, for the most part, nursing a...
a peaceful death among terminal patients. HSBs of specific groups of any size - whether large or small - are positively related t...
the patient die (1975). Consider the case of a patient with terminal throat cancer, who is in terrible pain which cannot successfu...
points out, medicalization is a process that defines a problem in terms of the practitioners perspective and cultural biases, rath...
of four (Bernstein, 2000). Its use also reduces hospitalizations by 59 percent and yields a benefit to cost ratio of seven to one,...
cancer affects both the man and his life partner. In most cases, study designs addressing quality of life issues for prostate canc...
life in prison for patient death (Jacko & Sears, 2003). HIPAA is comprised of five major titles that are applicable to each provi...
"encouragement of facing probl4ems/fears, support of efforts to master problems/ears, affective experiencing/catharsis" (Coady 15)...
there are those that are relevant to childrens protection as well, such as confidentiality. For example, during a recent visit tw...
movement disorders, such as Parkinsons and dystonia. This procedure was initially developed in 1987 in France (Song, 2006). This a...
to base their arguments on more spiritual and ethereal ground, such as the idea that a persons life ends when God chooses to end i...
in place for some time, and none of the fears surrounding it have ever materialized (Seale, 2006). Research shows that 171 people ...
to take expensive prescription medications as prescribed. This acerbates medical conditions and results in increases in acuity lev...
the situation, the charge nurse might take a number of different actions in response to this information. For example, the charge ...
motor vehicle crashes, substance abuse, and illegal behavior" (Visser, Lesesne and Perou, 2007, S99). Symptoms include irritabili...
classify medical errors (Pace et al., 2005). In fact, there are taxonomies to classify errors but they are not standardized (Pace ...
and Perou (2007) report that an estimated five to eighteen percent of youth in the US are diagnosed with ADHD and most receive so...
by Johansson, Dahlstrom and Brostrom (2006), they found 10 studies that examine4d the relationship between depression in HF patien...