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to identify and to relate in terms of actual patient care. Ida Jean Orlando created a conceptual view of the nursing process whic...

EMDR therapists assert that the treatment is suitable for a wide range of disorders; that it is much quicker than other forms of...

biochemistry. I recognized the wonder of chemistry, but what I failed to recognize at the time was the solid practice it gave me ...

authors isolated the following recurring elements, in order of their statistical appearance in the definitions [1]: Violence, forc...

In ten pages medical negligence is considered with such cases as 1957's Bolam v. Friern HMC and 1997's Bolitho v. Hackney HA refer...

Conroy and Nottoli (1999) report the case of Henry, an irascible octogenarian who easily was the most difficult patient in the ski...

evaluating information (including assumptions and evidence) related to the issue, considering alternatives ... and drawing conclus...

The link between nurse caring and patient satisfaction has been reported numerous times. For instance, the AORN journal reported a...

analysis. Making use of a sample of 100 patients, the test group is made up of 60 depressed patients with reflex sympathetic dystr...

2000). Even as recently as just a couple of decades ago, conditions such as cramps, pregnancy nausea and even labor pains were oft...

desire to increase revenue to allow further development and facilitate increased benefits to the users. The errors may not be as s...

caused by the illnesses the may then have a negative physiological backlash on the patient. For other condition it may be the ro...

Over twice as many people have been infected with HIV than was initially projected; over 42 million people have been infected sinc...

in groups created by the reciprocal model and attention is given to both ideas and feelings (1990). The needs of the group members...

the elderly. The Nurse Practitioner announced in its July 2000 issue that reports of the AMAs petition had been received as...

who are suffering from chronic ailments such as congestive heart failure, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), asthma and...

system to destroy abnormal cells. Hormone production is directly connected to psychological states. Countless women can attest to ...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

most pragmatic and meaningful of treatments in terms of how it shows where and how a person may have distorted thoughts regarding ...

still exists as to the necessity and long-term benefits of circumcision. Virtually all agree that if circumcision is to be done, ...

have different health care needs than their non-disabled counterparts (Donegan Shoaf, 1999). Medi-Cal is one such health c...

particular, resilience is also crucial because each instance is completely unique and may require a different response. In other ...

to be an essential element in the overall aspect of human life. Without its influential element, myriad individuals would not be ...

in which nurses had to request perceptions for certain types of dressing was a waste of time and resources, which in turn impacted...