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

an overview of the issues that surround massage and the literature that support the fact that it is an effective approach in the t...

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

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

is not an expectation based on fact or knowledge, it is based on hope. 2. Clinicians personal and professional values Personal ...

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

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

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

"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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

are licensed individuals who go through at least one year of formal education in addition to clinical instruction, and the focus o...

after which he began drinking again. After this, the patient demonstrated a desire to poison himself, and this resulted in his ow...

Mr. Schiavo finally was allowed the right to have his wifes feeding tube removed, the right to allow her to die of lack of nutrien...

Crystalloids and colloids are coming into use for trauma cases where fluids are being used for resuscitation. This paper gives a g...

of revenues, and it is likely lower. Allowing 35 percent food cost, however, the cost of operations including labor should not ex...

be vulnerable to abuse or neglect for a variety of reasons and in a variety of situations, which range from home care to care in r...

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