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

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

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

the situation, the charge nurse might take a number of different actions in response to this information. For example, the charge ...

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

are told what they should do by their physicians. For example, if a patient visits a doctor and due to age parameters, he or she w...

in the U.S. stands at 8.5 percent to over 14 percent, depending on the specific area of specialty (Letvak and Buck, 2008), by 2020...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

"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...

movement disorders, such as Parkinsons and dystonia. This procedure was initially developed in 1987 in France (Song, 2006). This a...

funds used to ensure drug safety focused in the approval of new drugs. After a drug is approved there are few quality reports unde...

that may trigger a Bipolar incident, many of these also trigger using substances. Oliver (2007) identified twelve different "Trigg...

information. These guidelines are also based on this researchers finding that self-care promotes the pediatric patients spiritual ...

on some theological idea that only God can end life. We wouldnt allow a dog or cat to suffer; why then do we force humans to do so...

meals to all Orthodox Jewish patients should be investigated by hospital administrators if they are not already in place. Furtherm...

in the study they had undergone three treatments using Clomiphene alone, with no results in relationship to a pregnancy (Ghafourza...

York found that, in the past, ambulance diversions were a seasonal event. However, more recent research finds that diversional sta...

McAndrew, 2006). With communication skills there are includes skills of listening as well as tact as essential to facilitate effec...

this condition. If the student does not have asthma, the student may feel motivated to help this population because of he/she rea...

with mental illnesses may reach out to drugs or alcohol to ease the pain they are feeling. It becomes very difficult to separate t...