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Caring for the Aged Loved One in Traditional Pacific Islander Cultures

Long-term care for the elderly, by its very nature, encompasses a variety of concerns. Their physical ailments...

The Interdisciplinary Value of Complex Adaptive Systems

past century has been the fabled "Unified Field Theory", the theoretical perspective that unifies all scientific disciplines such ...

Patient Privacy and Health Care Ethics - An Organizational Study

Florida cancer center, one can successfully examine how organizational structure and governance, as well as an organizations cultu...

Formulating Nursing Theory

verifies old knowledge (Wilkerson, 1998). As this suggests, the continuation of scholarly advances in the development of nursing t...

African Orphans Studies II

provide additional income. Environmentally, the water supply is inadequate and healthcare is of poor quality and also inaccessibl...

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...

A Community Health Issue in Kentucky/Smoking Cessation

Orem defines a "self-care deficit" as when a clients condition or injury prohibits that individuals ability to meet the requiremen...

The Impact of Culture in Medical Care

"how they relate to others. It influences the way patients respond to medical services and preventive interventions and impacts th...

Statistics in Surgical ICU

within institutions where manual charting of ventilators settings is performed well, "automatic data collection can eliminate dela...

2 Studies on Orphaned Africans Reviewed

2008, 2005). In Namibia alone, officials expect that 13 percent of all children under the age of 15 will be orphans by 2006 (Aids...

Call Tracking and Shand's Health Care

referrals, and so on. Messages are recorded by human workers, on message pads, then the message is placed in the appropriate locat...

Nurse Consultants and Their Role

on an evidenced based evidence based practice and the development of increased individual accountability in the area of clinical g...

Training of Nursing Staff and Its Rationale

learned long ago the value of yet another Deming (1986) exhortation, that of continuous improvement. By definition, the concept i...

Literature Review of Incidences of Septic Shock and Sepsis in ICU Patients

result in septic shock. Of that 200,000, approximately half result in death due to the onset of sepsis and the subsequent septic ...

Ethics and Laws of Child Care

confidentiality means that the discussions about issues of Evan and Rebeccas care, family conflicts, and the reasons that Evan is ...

NICU Principles of Family Practice

care is the guiding concept behind the Childrens Hospital of Philadelphias (CHOP) commitment to values that place mutual trust and...

Pneumonia and its Connection with the reuse of Suction Catheters in Children

controlled trials, systematic reviews, meta analyses, clearly defined hypothesis, and a definitive and strong conclusion. If one ...

Patient Scenario on Stroke Examination

affect patient outcomes (Finley, 2004). The degree to which Mr. Smith will be affected by the stroke, and, indeed, his very survi...

The Importance of Forensic Nursing

departments (Courson, 2004). It isnt that nurses have not been serving in these roles, they have but today, nurses receive speci...

CAM in Mainstream Medicine and in the Future

invest billions annually on alternative approaches to healthcare (Allen, 2005). The National Institutes of Health estimates that ...

2004 Senate Bill 2545

and respiration. Her parents were told that she would never recover, but that her body could be kept alive indefinitely through ar...

Rehabilitation and Acute Stroke Units

ensuring that a significant proportion of stroke victims survive and retain their independence. This is important not only from th...

Method Analysis in 'Analyzing Hospital Readmissions Using Statewide Discharge Databases'

the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...

Federal Spending and Quality Care in Hospitals

2005). Theres little doubt, however, that spending in Medicaid has been on the rise - and this has constituted a huge problem (Bec...

Should Health Care Be Considered a Right in the U.S.?

discussion. It is a way to present his theory on justice and what is right and wrong. Rawls view is basically that any rational h...

Dental Hygiene, Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate

at birth (Colgate Worldwide, 2005). Cleft palates, on the other hand, may or may not be immediately apparent (Colgate Worldwide, ...

Practical Nursing Theory Application

care model is highly useful with the elderly and those recovering from surgery or illness. Self care is not an issue that enters ...

Geriatric Care Quality

balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...

Health Care Industry, Confidentiality, and Whistle Blowing

importance of whistle blowers has been realised in the last decade, those on the inside of an organisation have the advantage of p...

Children's Services Safety Activities

In any case, when the supply runs low in a cabinet, there should be extra packages available in a supply closet and in each classr...