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This essay presents a summary and analysis of "Video on Interviewing Vulnerable Elders (VIVE)," which instructs nurses and long-te...

This paper analyzes the care prevailed for Lucy, an adolescent college student who is diabetic and complaining of fatigue. Diagnos...

In a paper of three pages, the author reflects on an article entitled: Providing Patients with Information on Caring for Skin. T...

In four pages this essay considers whether or not children who have been removed from their parents' custody should be placed eith...

12 pages and 12 sources used. This paper provides an overview of an emerging system in providing health benefits by employers. T...

Death and dying are a major concern in American society today. Robert Marrone addressed the various issues in Death, Mourning, and...

has left the facility and has gone home to the comforts of home in order to spend the last days, weeks or months of their life in ...

physician should have more power than presently granted. II. Solutions In trying to come up with solutions, one should first...

The most recent trend in nursing home care is client-centered treatment. This paper examines statistics in elder care, with almost...

Genetic Association for Cigarette Smoking Behavior". Research in smoking addiction have revealed that along with several social fa...

actionable and for the bringing of cases to be controlled. We may also argue that they also serve a purpose in restricting and cre...

Today, the theories of Orem, Roy, Neuman, Rogers, King, and others seem to be more popular than older theories such as those of Fl...

of many elderly patients. The failure of the policy to realise real benefits was seen in many areas. This is not to say...

their wishes for the patients care. Every nursing home resident has a right to such a plan by law (Stern), and it does not only p...

call for compliance with standardized procedures, health codes, and licensing requirements, all of which have been initiated to su...

it is discovered that her death was called by a massive pulmonary embolism. Two years later, her husband files suit against the n...

patient to re-establish the self-care capacity. Orems model defines a "self-care deficit" as when a patients condition interferes ...

In three pages this research paper discusses how humor can be a modality that assists nurses in patient care as well as self care....

that is, whether it will spread (metastasize) and what symptoms that it is likely to cause (Cancer diagnosis, 2005). The term "sec...

a specialized body of knowledge, skills and experience that enables these nurses to offer a high standard of care to critically il...

prepared for this role" (McKenna, 1997, p. 87). Perhaps most significant of all was Florence Nightingales belief that env...

to increase the quality of care given in long term care facilities in the country, in order to ultimate reduce health care costs t...

Hypnosis is sometimes regarded more as a parlor trick than as an effective approach to influencing human behavior and...

--for more information on using this paper properly! The criminal justice system often receives criticism for operating ...

reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...

they visited, and some tended to visit fairly frequently (Demling et al, 2002). Patients in general were very positive about thei...

is an important part of healthcare that is focused on the economic principles of the industry. This branch of economics is used by...

of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), define an "Advance Directives," as "l...

Concepts, theories, principles and practices in managed care and the health services industry in regards to social, economic, and ...

2008). Incentive programs can actually have very positive outcomes if they are used correctly and ethically (Sabin, 2008). In so d...