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include not only the emotional impact of being experienced by the patient and the relatives involved, but research has also relate...

Hospital. The purpose here is to describe and evaluate the restructuring of St. Vincents ICU to gain one-on-one nursing and so im...

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

9.Surg: Patients recovering from some form of surgery. 10. Med: Patients recovering from some form of illness. 11. ICU-Intensive C...

In eight pages this essay discusses efforts to reconcile euthanasia and the Nurse's Code in a consideration of the ethics nonmalef...

In this paper consisting of seven pages the importance of adequately assessing patient needs is discussed by examining the theorie...

Dementia is a debilitating disease that strikes mostly older people. The focus of this essay is Spiritual care for people with dem...

This paper considers the role of patients' religion and how it should impact nursing care. The writer focuses on the way in whic...

This essay provides a student with a hypothetical guide to discussing interviews with RN, a nurse practitioner and a patient conce...

to the bill as did many nursing executives, arguing that there was sufficient legislation already on the books that dealt with sta...

need for theory in accomplishing the tasks of direct patient care. There are routines and required protocols to follow, but the p...

indwelling foley and compression boot. Her dressing is dry and intact. She was discharged with Percocet 5mg q6. Analysis and Out...

facility grew to over 1,000 beds and the addition of a many barracks-style buildings. The design for a new facility began in 1942 ...

with physicians to "Yes, doctor," the still-proceeding transitions in healthcare continue to elevate the position of nurse while n...

level of problems for inpatients was 20.9% compared to only 8.4% for outpatients (Wilson et al, 2002). When asked to rate the serv...

has been estimated that between 49 and 83 percent of all elderly adults experience pain on a regular basis (Briggs, 2003). Desbi...

All of the results of this reengineering, however, were not as positive. The process had not taken into consideration the fact th...

al, 2009). The theory came from "the results of studies accomplished by the author along her Doctorate in Clinic and Social Psycho...

et al, 2007). Over the last several decades, clinicians have come to regard treatment decisions in terms of quality of life "ben...

The aim is to change the NHS culture to an information culture that will maximise recourses through an appropriate infrastructure....

culturally competent care. Well examine what the literature has to say about such standards and, with this background, and an unde...

of which includes diabetes (Samuels et al 55). Auricle pressure points - comprise over half of the more than 400 acupuncture poin...

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...

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

the processes of care and generally utilizes claims data in order to discern rates of service delivery that are, in turn, linked t...

much sugar remains in the blood and too little energy is transferred to other cells. The diabetic needs to take externally adminis...

the near future, however. This presents potentially severe consequences for the economics of elder care. The stakeholders in this...

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

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