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are fatigued often have trouble dealing successfully with their illness. In this article Benzein and Berg note that "Hope, hopeles...

healthcare services to senior citizens, which is an at-risk population in this country. One helping approach for people with dis...

This ANA Code also specifically includes the possibility that "inappropriate disclosure" can occur by using "identifiable patient ...

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

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

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

"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...

cancer affects both the man and his life partner. In most cases, study designs addressing quality of life issues for prostate canc...

is not an expectation based on fact or knowledge, it is based on hope. 2. Clinicians personal and professional values Personal ...

there is very little information about predisposes people to these episodes (Swann, 2006). Therefore, for the most part, nursing a...

Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Tulsa. Linda W. Cardillo is a doctoral student in the School of Journali...

Visiting Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Tulsa. Linda W. Cardillo is a doctoral student in the School of...

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 ...

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...

and theoretical Framework: The instrument designed for use in this study drew heavily upon the survey developed by Cole, et al, wh...

and Blood Institute, 2007). Zardi and colleagues (2008) referred to this procedure as the "gold standard" (p. 48) for assessing th...

patient, the attending nurse is seldom in the room at the same time. The attending physician may refer the patient to a cardiologi...

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 ...

at any given time. More than a decade ago, Bigelow and Arndt (1995) suspected value in TQM in the hospital setting but wrote, "Th...

an overview of the issues that surround massage and the literature that support the fact that it is an effective approach in the t...

This is a federal law that addresses the privacy of patients/clients who see health care professionals. This essay identifies the ...

This research paper pertains to the positions held by those who oppose and those who support the Patient Protection and Affordable...

This essay comments on four aspects of education in health care beginning with using the COPA model for basic nursing education an...