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her to divide the ways in which certain cultures utilize their power when compared with others. When the student discusses the un...

are under our care. By promoting healthy and better communication between us and the patient, we do not need to involve the famil...

any love relationship can be hurtful enters the picture. With this rationale, one can see that to have an affair with an ex-patien...

and eventually all cognitive function for the person inflicted with the disease (Lemonick and Park-Mankato, 2001). While the spec...

how change can be effectively managed and challenges in the transformation of nursing and health care delivery. Clearly, Roys mod...

the patient prior to his death. The nurse clearly felt the need to encourage the family to stay and spend as much time as possibl...

for further self-harm to occur. Pembrooke and Smith recommend, for example, that triage staff assume that even minor injuries repr...

are theoretically viable, but there is actually no evidence to support the claim that UPs will actually reduce the number of expos...

responsible for their actions of over or under treating patients, and when can one say that the fine line is too sketchy? A case s...

primary function is to "pump blood coming into the ventricles from the lower pressure venous system against the higher pressure ar...

that make use of color, but even these efforts have not typically met with good response by patients or hospital administrators (S...

health information is pivotal to the efforts of practitioners in promoting health, changing behaviors and attitudes, and preventin...

and more nurses are standing at the front lines of managed care, acting somewhat as liaison between the patient and managed care o...

presented with a kind of awe and hope in terms of the medical industry. We are also provided with a look at interns and the ent...

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

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...

episode of major depression be treated in this type of program? Or can this person be treated in a primary addiction-oriented prog...

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

is wheelchair bound, but nevertheless cooks for herself and shops for herself in a nearby grocery store, using her motorized wheel...

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

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

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

student--in respect to hospitalization. One question that also arises is whether the culture of the non-English speaking patient p...

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

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

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

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...

The statistics regarding coronary artery disease make it obvious that emergency medical services are critical in saving the lives ...