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hypoglycemia require different nursing responses. Mild hypoglycemia, which is defined by the symptoms listed above and a glucose r...

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...

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

to take expensive prescription medications as prescribed. This acerbates medical conditions and results in increases in acuity lev...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

patient, the attending nurse is seldom in the room at the same time. The attending physician may refer the patient to a cardiologi...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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