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who are suffering from chronic ailments such as congestive heart failure, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), asthma and...
Johns Hopkins University and member of the IOM research team that authored the report, said that "fatigue was a major cause of mis...
of literature about biomedical ethics relative to patient autonomy. This type of autonomy is limited, at best, with managed health...
bodies to produce an excessive amount of cholesterol (Statins safe, 2004). Left untreated, this condition is associated with havin...
and typically occurs by the time a person reaches their 70s. In the U.S., roughly 1.5 million fractures are caused by osteoporosis...
provide effective communication, the Band Aid song "Do They Know Its Christmas" a song which led to Live Aid was effective; this w...
workplace is a critical component of occupational rehabilitation (Morrison, 1993). In one study it was found that employees of inj...
are told what they should do by their physicians. For example, if a patient visits a doctor and due to age parameters, he or she w...
in the U.S. stands at 8.5 percent to over 14 percent, depending on the specific area of specialty (Letvak and Buck, 2008), by 2020...
proven to be the principal reason for nosocomial infections, that is, infections that are acquired after hospital admittance. Impo...
as individuals, "healthcare executives must evaluate the possible outcomes of their decisions and accept full responsibility for t...
hypoglycemia require different nursing responses. Mild hypoglycemia, which is defined by the symptoms listed above and a glucose r...
and theoretical Framework: The instrument designed for use in this study drew heavily upon the survey developed by Cole, et al, wh...
paying salaries). Patients are going to generally go to hospitals where their doctors are - though when it comes to emergencies or...
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 ...
"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...
and Blood Institute, 2007). Zardi and colleagues (2008) referred to this procedure as the "gold standard" (p. 48) for assessing th...
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 ...
cancer affects both the man and his life partner. In most cases, study designs addressing quality of life issues for prostate canc...
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...
patient, the attending nurse is seldom in the room at the same time. The attending physician may refer the patient to a cardiologi...
predicting mortality and morbidity. Authors provide a section to explain and explore the existence of natriuretic peptides. Anoth...
ask these questions because he is trying to find out if the patient has any understanding as to why his behavior makes him uneasy;...
in resistant strains of bacteria (Plonczynski, 2005). This situation suggests that changes in antibiotic prophylactic procedures ...