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some of the inmates to play poker with pornographic cards. He smuggles hookers in for several of the ward mates, and he threatens ...

symptoms so that they might seek help at the onset of a respiratory event and to acquaint them with the causes of their condition ...

made of cotton or cotton blends, which absorb rather than repel fluids. One of the most important precautions that a nurse can t...

as long as they know whos records they are looking for and how to access them. The next stage from this that avoids the delays eve...

need for theory in accomplishing the tasks of direct patient care. There are routines and required protocols to follow, but the p...

to the bill as did many nursing executives, arguing that there was sufficient legislation already on the books that dealt with sta...

are ideally suited to assist patient and their families in clarifying their needs and desires, enhancing patient autonomy (Breier-...

For different reasons, each profession believes that the morning routine of washing and dressing is essential. Both the nurse and...

later adding informational pamphlets discussing heart disease in the aging. My first meeting with Ms. Bross largely was informati...

indwelling foley and compression boot. Her dressing is dry and intact. She was discharged with Percocet 5mg q6. Analysis and Out...

some studies that address waiting times that patients invest in seeing physicians, however. McCarthy, McGee and OBoyle (2000) pro...

for the family. Finances have been destroyed with assets being wiped out, the stress such illness creates in the other family memb...

of dementia depend on the cause of the disease. However, in all senses of the definition of dementia, it is irreversible and will...

means of the company. Current Work Process Purpose of the Work Process The "home health" sector of the health care industry...

Building on the work of William Farr, Jacques Bertillon, the chief statistician for the city of Paris, devised a revised classific...

factors that have been identified include "diabetes, alcoholism, malnutrition, history of antibiotic or corticosteroid use, decrea...

Agency for Healthcare and Quality as "doing the right thing, at the right time, in the right way, for the right person-and having ...

9.Surg: Patients recovering from some form of surgery. 10. Med: Patients recovering from some form of illness. 11. ICU-Intensive C...

issue via conceptual analysis, inasmuch as Walker and Avant provide specific steps that allow one to wholly define the ambiguous a...

over their blood glucose levels; and (3) encouraging continuous improvement in nursing knowledge and patient education. The progr...

Leadership and management while related are two distinctively different concepts. Leadership can be discerned from simply manageme...

nephrologists can be a particularly concerning factor in health care outcome. Methods...

consent must be made through a signed legal document (Retsas and Forrester, 1995). In all cases consent must be freely and volunt...

All of the results of this reengineering, however, were not as positive. The process had not taken into consideration the fact th...

to a nursing facility, it should also be understood that each situation is unique. When both the family members and the staff of t...

clear that the patient is taking part in a decision-making process, and not simply signing a form. In practical terms, of course, ...

level of problems for inpatients was 20.9% compared to only 8.4% for outpatients (Wilson et al, 2002). When asked to rate the serv...

the near future, however. This presents potentially severe consequences for the economics of elder care. The stakeholders in this...

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

"ICU syndrome" (Elliot and Wright, 1999). In its milder form, ICU syndrome was characterized by the presence of confusion and memo...