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Essays 1981 - 2010

Diabetic Case Study/Art of Nursing

entails addressing the emotional, psychological and spiritual needs of the patient, as well as medical and physical needs, entails...

Health Care Management Models

there is a pressing need to "make clinical goals specific, roles explicit, [and] processes clear" (Phillips, 2005). For instance, ...

Issues in Implementing Change for a Healthcare Company

The writer looks at a scenario where a home care health organization wants to introduce an electronic patient records system. The ...

Electronic Medical Records - Business Incentives and Ethical Concerns

information flows between healthcare facilities; the bottom line is that legislation will have to be concerned not simply with pro...

Making Improvements in the Nursing Agency

provided in their own home. Services offered include, but are not limited to, general nursing services, physical and occupational ...

Nursing Home Injuries: A Review of the Literature

number of patients, in other words) and the incidence of injury at nursing homes, making this correlation a worthwhile problem to ...

An Interview with a Nurse Manager

Adams maintained that her experiences with nursing care and the structure of nursing services has changed in the past decade, and ...

Sexuality and Personal Beliefs

This has been emphasized through very public opposition to gay marriage and the national debate over the rights of same-sex partne...

Technology Improves Emergency Rooms

their resources and materials but emergency rooms do not seem to be able to keep track of equipment or even patients. One issue we...

Medication Communication/Concept Analysis using Orem's Theory

between a patient and a doctor in a community practice setting" (Manias, 2010, p. 934). However, this scenario is no longer the mo...

Career Planning

first essential step in the pursuit of any lifelong goal such as this is to develop a "five year plan". In the development of su...

Effects of New Health Reform Policy

income (Douglas & Burke, 2010; Kaiser Family Foundation, 2011). Medicare taxes on net investment income will also increase from 0....

Primary Prevention in Diabetic Care

can be easily determined via the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) and by testing fasting plasma glucose (FPG), as these tests ar...

Factors Negatively Influencing Continuity of Health Care for Black Males

From a humanistic standpoint, the distribution of health care services should occur in accordance with the principle of equality o...

History of Minimum Wage, Supreme Court to Rule on ACA

in the current minimum wage of $7.25, which became effective on July 24, 2009 (WHD, 2011). This history is also characterized by t...

Practicum Outline

computerized or electronic patient records. 1c. To discuss these findings with supervisor/mentor to consider how the information...

Practicum Example for a Nursing Course

of falls in elderly chronic patients at that home. 1c. Discuss findings with supervisor/mentor. 1a. The creation of a detailed...

Obamas Views on Immigration

Obamas 2012 State of the Union Address portrays the view that the nation is much better than it was before Obama took office. Thi...

Two Article Summaries

provided details of the processes use to make changes in order to create a safer environment and reduce injuries, it was found tha...

An American View of Dying and Death

that many adults have to being placed in nursing care (Ciechanowski et al, 2004). The degree of social isolation along with depen...

Changing Social Views on Dying and Death

of death often occurs without the presence of loved ones and in the absence of any great fanfare. While some cultures create an e...

Hospital Administrator

to gain an executive position immediately upon graduation, possibly in a specialty area such as government relations, medical staf...

Nightingale's Theory, Case Study of Elderly Woman

client who is the focus of this case study is an 86-year-old woman who has been living at home with her husband. Her medical histo...

Healthcare and Transformational Leadership - A Model of Development

within the course of ones career as a leader. Differing models of leadership all hope to achieve the same outcome of conferring a ...

Reducing Falls in Home Based Patients

implemented. The initial implementation will be for a three month period with a pilot area, which will be used to optimise the f...

Reducing Falls Rates - Presentation of a Proposal

The paper is a presentation made up 12 slides and notes for the speaker. The presentation outlines a protocol for a new multifact...

One European Universal Health System

but that is limited to 2 percent of the familys annual income or 1 percent for those who have chronic illnesses (Clarke, 2012). Th...

Plan to Implement and Evaluate a Fall Prevention Strategy

also need to be training of clinical staff to run the program along with an alert system so that the healthcare workers of the ind...

Nursing Course Evaluation

It also is clear that readily accessible primary care services are essential to achieving effective health care reform. The World ...

Family and Nursing Practice, Dialysis Unit

that the concept of family that is most helpful to nursing practice is one that considers not only members of the immediate nuclea...