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Study participants ranged from 20 to 79 years and noted that the mere exchange of information is not enough to accomplish the desi...

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

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

"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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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 ...

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

This paper offers an annotated bibliography which consists of research articles that pertain to CPAP and BiPAP therapies, which ar...

The purpose of technology in hospitals is to increase efficiency and accuracy of their healthcare systems and to improve patient c...

This paper pertains to the care of elderly patients in emergency departments (EDs). Three pages in length, four sources are cited....

This essay discusses different issues that center on the traditional organizational structure design. Issues include: patient-cent...

culturally competent care. Well examine what the literature has to say about such standards and, with this background, and an unde...

differences between cultures consist of variation in their main pattern in terms of these five dimensions and that these differenc...