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and respond to patient authentically as individuals in the here-and-now moment may be the best way to prepare safe and effective c...

is designed to ensure that "Patients have access to needed care" and that healthcare providers are "free to practice medicine with...

of diabetes care, including blood/glucose monitoring, food intake monitoring, exercise monitoring, and insulin administration. Be...

and ever changing (Trice and Beyer, 1993). Organisational culture embodies what is and is not accepted within an organisation in t...

happening (Simms, Dubowitz and Szilagyi, 2000). Even though each case if different, there are several common reactions when chil...

this condition is unknown (CKD, 2005). The challenge facing this focus area of HP 2010 is to establish effective programs that wil...

By the early 1930s, the issue had become politically viable and in 1938 "the struggle over control of health care spilled over int...

By the early 1930s, the issue had become politically viable and in 1938 "the struggle over control of health care spilled over int...

which a person demonstrates fundamental functioning in their life environment (Jones and Kilpatrick, 1996). In other words, the c...

in diagnostic, prescriptive, and regulatory operations of nursing" (Horan, Doran and Timmins, 2004, p. 30). From this perspective,...

some of the inmates to play poker with pornographic cards. He smuggles hookers in for several of the ward mates, and he threatens ...

into perspective when one considers the fact that benefits are still being paid to offspring and widows of both the Civil War and ...

we all must personally face. Dealing with the death of a loved one, however, can be considerably more difficult than facing the f...

a "collaborative quality improvement project" that focuses on PUs in nursing homes as its primary focus (Lynn, et al, 2007). QIOs,...

meet the needs of most dogs and owners where there are special health or well being considerations, as long as the dogs are happy ...

and even employees were concerned. One mused, "They are just doing this to prevent Lowes from getting into the market ... I am wo...

arrived there; there are hundreds of sources describing these groups. The study of American history is fascinating, since it revea...

First seen as an occasional point of minor and temporary discomfort, there seemed to be other, more "important" issues to assess. ...

reasons given by nursing staff for not providing this care (Kalisch, 2006, p. 306). At the end of the study article, in the "Di...

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

15 percent within the first six months as sales to professional headdresses would increase by 10 percent of the same period. The b...

relationships between self-care agency and the self-care demand" (Kumar, 2007, p. 106). Within the context of Self-Care Deficit ...

to the development of military medicine" (Tripler Army Medical Center, 2008). It had 450 beds at the start of WWII, then expanded ...

aforementioned variables are unsatisfactory, depression can occur in a number of different ways. Major depressive disorder ...

and typically occurs by the time a person reaches their 70s. In the U.S., roughly 1.5 million fractures are caused by osteoporosis...

and specific therapy" (Newswanger and Warren, 2004, p. 2405). As patients advance through the acute phase of the illness, supporti...

has always been about the development of autonomy, equality, social justice and democracy" (Mezirow, 1999). The transformative app...

in nutritional value. High risk also results from the fact that poor neighborhoods frequently lack "well-maintained sidewalks and ...

While only 6 percent of newborns require advanced life support in 1997, the rise in the number of neonates since that time weighin...

Agency for Healthcare and Quality as "doing the right thing, at the right time, in the right way, for the right person-and having ...