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Senior Citizens and Long Term Care

Nursing homes have changed for the better over the years, but they still carry a negative connotation and generally only those who...

An Examination of a Tool for Aggregate Assessment

Erie, Pennsylvania (Minnis, 2002). As is the case here, the aggregate for which this tool was developed is that of persons over t...

Time Management and Critical Care Nursing

achieved that the critical care nurse may address the bio-psycho-social implications of the event (Alfafara and Hedges, 1996). Fur...

Nursing Care and Patient Diagnosis

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

Nursing and the Caring Phenomena

on nurses increase (Cullen, 2003). Nevertheless, nurse educators and scholars stress that it is through recognition of caring as a...

UK Children in Care and Academic Performance

of the population in this group, that this can be explained by way of intellectual differences. Education is only one elem...

Jean Watson's Human Caring Theory

is they do, when they change their actions, then the image of nursing will change" (Watson, 1996, p. 142). Watson has recognized ...

Rights, Empowerment, and Social Work Legislation

Rights The concept of human rights have been a part of discussions on ethics and the ethical treatment of many different populati...

Cultural Care in Russian Families

sometimes goes to the lengths a westerner would consider as infringement)" (Russians, 2004). In relationship to statistics it a...

Nursing and Family's Role

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

Contrasts Between Culture and Medical Science in The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

experience, particularly that immigrant experience as it occurs within the modern medical environment, revolves around cultural un...

Rima Shore: What Kids Need

the practical advice along with the posing of the problems. Many times books which are produced only serve to point out what is wr...

Literature Review on Ventilator Associated Pneumonia in Intensive Care Units and th Effects of Improved Oral Care

that inadequate understanding of the impact of oral health in the hospital setting can be evidenced, and Holmes (1996) further con...

Welfare State, Power Transformation, and Managerialism

for various programs and those who are involved in these programs. Most of the incentives fall for the department themselves, shif...

Analysis of Incurred but Not Reported

payment has yet to be received. Given this, IBNR can end up being a problem for hospitals and/or health care organizations...

The Law and Doctor-Patient Sexual Contact in California

directly against another California law - termed a crime of sexual exploitation (Anderson, 2000), which is part of 42 C.F.R. ? 100...

Overview of the Florida Department of Children and Families

to be done to improve various perceived problems. Unfortunately, it must be said, that from what one can tell, the report is very ...

Retirement Home Visit and Senior Citizen Pastoral Care

of the center is spacious and is similar in style to large living room. A fire crackled cheerfully n the fireplace at the far end ...

Current Literature and Kangaroo Care

of care for preterm infants who are relatively stable. The outcomes have suggested great improvements for preterm infants, includ...

Federal Spending and Quality Care in Hospitals

2005). Theres little doubt, however, that spending in Medicaid has been on the rise - and this has constituted a huge problem (Bec...

African Orphans Studies II

provide additional income. Environmentally, the water supply is inadequate and healthcare is of poor quality and also inaccessibl...

Literature Review of Incidences of Septic Shock and Sepsis in ICU Patients

result in septic shock. Of that 200,000, approximately half result in death due to the onset of sepsis and the subsequent septic ...

Ethics and Laws of Child Care

confidentiality means that the discussions about issues of Evan and Rebeccas care, family conflicts, and the reasons that Evan is ...

Geriatric Care Quality

balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...

Method Analysis in 'Analyzing Hospital Readmissions Using Statewide Discharge Databases'

the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...

Children's Services Safety Activities

In any case, when the supply runs low in a cabinet, there should be extra packages available in a supply closet and in each classr...

Dental Hygiene, Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate

at birth (Colgate Worldwide, 2005). Cleft palates, on the other hand, may or may not be immediately apparent (Colgate Worldwide, ...

Practical Nursing Theory Application

care model is highly useful with the elderly and those recovering from surgery or illness. Self care is not an issue that enters ...

Exercise in Making an Ethical Decision

the cracks of indigent health care. The hospital quite naturally is concerned about the cost of continuing to provide care for Mr...

Community and Patient Nursing Care and Meningococcal Meningitis

the disease as well as around the prevention of the spread of the causative organism to other individuals that come into contact w...