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Putting Kolcaba's Theory of Comfort in Practice

a peaceful death among terminal patients. HSBs of specific groups of any size - whether large or small - are positively related t...

Medical Issues in Euthanasia

the patient die (1975). Consider the case of a patient with terminal throat cancer, who is in terrible pain which cannot successfu...

Medicalization

points out, medicalization is a process that defines a problem in terms of the practitioners perspective and cultural biases, rath...

Oral History vs the Clinical Record

story behind Lennox Castle Hospital. Colin Sprowl, a man that worked over thirty years at the hospital as a male nurse, provides ...

Reflective Learning in the Radiology Department

This is the event for which the processes focused, on which the reflection is taking place. This is an objective stage where the d...

Developing a Care Plan

prior to being admitted to the care facility, it is possible that these needs are not being met. There is also the religious need ...

Importance of Health Care Communication

to adopt healthy living habits (Schiavo, 2007). The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) says health communication is ...

HMO Incentives for Doctors

2008). Incentive programs can actually have very positive outcomes if they are used correctly and ethically (Sabin, 2008). In so d...

Nurses Using Evidenced-Based Practices

Nursing has evolved over the decades primarily as a result of research (Director, 2009). Nurses recognize a problem and introduce ...

MANAGING HEALTHCARE FOR THE UNINSURED

The problem is that the system is broken when it comes to getting appropriate healthcare to the uninsured. Even if Congress passes...

Healthcare and the Dangers of Nosocomial Infections

services. However, the greatest cost of all has been to human life, because nosocomial infections have resulted in patient deaths...

The Need for Quicker Lab Results

whether or not a patient complaining of chest pains is having or has had a heart attack (American Clinical Laboratory Association,...

Decision Making at Happy Hospital Budget, Performance, and Ethics

properly! Budget and performance reports are a...

Comparing Mission and Philosophy Statements in regards to Nursing

from those of education- focused institutions, when the institution in question is a nursing school, there are similarities, as we...

BPD Difficlut to Diagnose

a relatively new mental illness category. Gunderson (2001) explained that borderline personality disorder "is layered between neur...

The Causes and Impact of Increasing Costs of Healthcare

Third cause of increasing healthcare costs is attributed to the attitude of the public, with the expectation that will diseases wi...

Defending the New Healthcare Reform Law

individual and small-group insurance will operate in a manner similar to large-group coverage by pooling risks (Iglehart, 2010). I...

The NHS as a Model of Healthcare

by many the local and national government ought to have a more important role in the healthcare of the nations. As early as 1900 t...

Quality Improvement in Health Care

than nurses, executives and managers at those hospitals. St. Lukes Medical Center St. Lukes is a 154-bed hospital located in S...

HEALTH CARE ACT AND MENTAL HEALTH

this rhetoric was how the act would impact the millions of people in the United States who suffer from emotional or physical disor...

Culture Care Theory

There are dozens of nursing theories that have been developed over decades. Each has its own value and each is beneficial for nurs...

Elective Surgery and Preoperative Anemia

There is a greater possibility of being transfused if the patient has anemia prior to surgery. There is a greater chance of compli...

Medical Marijuana, Pro and Con

This research paper discusses the benefits and risks associated with medical marijuana use. The writer concludes in favor of presc...

Tired Nurses

The organizational behavior problem selected for this analysis is nurse fatigue. Thousands of nurses arrive at work in a state of ...

Is the Teach-Back Model Effective

This essay follows a different format that usual. Questions are placed in a table with the answers following the question. Color c...

Reliable Information on Providers, Facilities

This research paper discusses how patient can obtain valid information on reliable providers and health care facilities and the re...

Congestive Heart Failure, A Case Study

This research paper describes a patient with congestive heart failure, giving a case study overview of nursing care. Six pages in ...

Dialysis and Quality of Life/A PICO Question

This research paper describes the process of formulating a PICO question that pertains to hemodialysis patients and their quality ...

Literature Review, Dialysis Study

This paper consists of a literature review for a proposed study that will compare community-based hemodialysis to peritoneal dialy...

Holden, et al. (1997), Article Critique

This essay offers a critique of a research study conducted by Holden and colleagues (1997). This study pertained to effects of psy...