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This research paper employs a nursing case study in order to discuss issues associated with understaffing and its negative impact ...
The writer providers the student with feedback on a project that was implementing in a nursing agency to reduce the fall incidence...
abnormal (Yadkin, 2011). The ratio between the BUN reading and creatinine should not be greater than 20:1 or less than 10:1 and th...
perception of powerlessness is a condition that can affects virtually all individuals at some point in their lives (Dryer, 2006). ...
among the classic symptoms of diabetic ketoacidosis. The pathophysiology of these symptoms results from the buildup in ketones due...
to any injury to the head that impairs subsequent brain functioning. While mild TBI can appear to have left the individual unimpai...
have on patient outcomes. It was found patients from the Mexican American families, where there was a lower level of EE were also ...
agent, such as an adult child or another proxy. In recent years, the DNR has been included in the Physicians Orders for Life Susta...
the various roles and responsibilities that the specialty involves, they share the common quality that the nursing process is inhe...
or the frequency level of falls in terms of overall patient numbers. For quality improvement to take place it is necessary not onl...
The paper is a presentation made up 12 slides and notes for the speaker. The presentation outlines a protocol for a new multifact...
but that is limited to 2 percent of the familys annual income or 1 percent for those who have chronic illnesses (Clarke, 2012). Th...
increased; the incidence rate has risen from 15% to 35%. The problem is the increase in the rate of falls and a need to reduce the...
one-third of patients with major depression experience remission using the first medication prescribed. This leads the doctor will...
(Smith, 2006). They need to realize they will become tired and frustrated. What family and friends can do to help the patient is...
use of continuing education to improve patient care (Sterman, Gauker & Krieger, 2003). Effects of nursing rounds, call light use, ...
disorder that is characterized by obsessions, i.e., thoughts, and/or compulsions, acts that must be done. The acts become rituals....
the highest readmission rates for congestive heart failure (CHF), as well as other conditions (DeFelice, et al, 2010). Initially, ...
is based on the greatest good for the greatest number of people. Or, it could be the greatest pleasure or good over the least pain...
millennia ago, it is the first recorded use of pooled payment systems to proved healthcare. There are many examples of similar soc...
the childs life. Children are not simply adults in miniature, as their bodies and organ function are in a continual state of deve...
last start up cost is the start up training costs for the staff, if the staff are to be brought in from external sources there may...
income (Douglas & Burke, 2010; Kaiser Family Foundation, 2011). Medicare taxes on net investment income will also increase from 0....
can be easily determined via the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) and by testing fasting plasma glucose (FPG), as these tests ar...
primary symptoms of COPD are "wheezing, cough, dyspnea on exertion and increased phlegm production" (Touhy and Jett, 2012, p. 289)...
The writer looks at a hospital planning on implementing a web chat facility on their corporate web site to increase communication...
frequently the needs of terminal patients are not addressed properly and that multiple problems exist in this regard. Practitioner...
for a long period of time. It may be noted that the problem was caused by steroid use when jerry was in his 20s, and the dangers w...
serious, potentially fatal, but preventable, complication of diabetes mellitus that occurs when there is insufficient insulin to m...
using CHOP alone. This study involved 399 patients who were 60 years of age and older in the advanced stages of NHL ("Adult NHL,"...