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there was a problem of infections in long-term care facilities and in hospitals (Dimond, 1994). These are called nosocomial infect...

sense that it is actively intended to cause harm, but negligence occurs when it is established that any reasonable person would ha...

several years. Psychologically, it has been found that individuals more actively involved with their own health care often fare m...

not want his father informed), presenting a rationale for signing a health care proxy becomes extremely problematic. Guidelines us...

Ida would do fine provide support for his theories. All he had to do was to fit her and her symptoms into the framework he alread...

protection. It seems that the purpose of the old system was typical as the facility needed communications. However, in health care...

provided. A nurse who has back pain will likely reduce the care he or she could otherwise administer. When people have back or m...

are, of course, special considerations which go into treating the elderly. We know, for example, that the elderly often experienc...

However, as indicated in the main heading, this behavior alone is not sufficient to indicate Aspergers Disorder. The fact that Bil...

of spirituality is not uniform and that "spirituality" as a term is frequently used as a synonym for religion, which is not necess...

a chromosome deletion. The major symptoms of PWS are: infantile hypotonia, failure to thrive, hypogonadism; developmental delay;...

and height), an intense fear of becoming fat, and (in females) skipped menstrual periods for at least three months" (Grilo, Sinha,...

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

diagnosing it. It is not as if depression is difficult to diagnose. What is difficult is getting clients into facilities and to ad...

to adulthood or general maturation processes. In an institutionalised environment, this can be a difficult transition, yet in a co...

responsible for their actions of over or under treating patients, and when can one say that the fine line is too sketchy? A case s...

the patient prior to his death. The nurse clearly felt the need to encourage the family to stay and spend as much time as possibl...

are theoretically viable, but there is actually no evidence to support the claim that UPs will actually reduce the number of expos...

method in Assisted Suicide: Is There A Future? Ethical And Nursing Considerations employed the use of hypothetical euthanasia case...

patient displays. While the propensity for abuse can certainly go either way - from caregiver to patient and vice versa - the ext...

one, we become constantly reacquainted with the subject. The way that we deal with death varies on both an individual and a colle...

the differences noted above, Hindus are often immersed within the same cultural elements as are non-Hindus, from outward appearanc...

depression, schizophrenia, etc. (Weijer and Anderson, 2001). These trials are justified via the rationalization that such...

patient care" (p. 438). Prior to 1970, nursing training in the UK could be described as rigid and highly structured. After...

occurred in their own practices. What was ultimately determined by this survey was that by virtue of the absence of romantic and ...

blood pressure within the veins drops, too. The volume of the blood is what maintains the pressure on the vein walls. As a result,...

attack if irreparable harm and indeed loss of life is to be prevented (Isenstein, 1999). The statistics regarding coronar...

200 percent of the compensatory damages awarded" (Bamonte PG). Currently juries have plenty of room to award large damage claims ...

It should be noted that this embryonic tissue is available as a corollary of infertility treatment or abortion,...

In five pages a 2001 article by Sarah Jo Brown on the relationship between patient outcomes and nurse staffing according to a stud...