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Nightingale's Theory, Case Study of Elderly Woman

client who is the focus of this case study is an 86-year-old woman who has been living at home with her husband. Her medical histo...

Diabetes Articles, Reflection, Synthesis

of literature pertaining to type 2 diabetes mellitus, begins by describing, summarizing and analyzing the study conducted by Barko...

An Annotated Bibliography of Nurse Research

prevent the potential of incidences of sudden cardiac death in young athletes. The authors maintained that pre-participation card...

Case Study Diagnosis

2010). In addition, Moniques behaviors, including drinking to the point where she blacks out and being unable to participate in w...

Addressing Issues in the HCAHPS

Systems (HCAHPS) is a patient satisfaction survey and assessment of the level of quality care provided by hospitals and healthcare...

Nursing Relevance of Jean Watson's Theory of Caring

phenomenological, existential, and qualitative components (Cohen, 1991). These combine to create a theory that addresses the pers...

Theory of Caring, Kristen M. Swanson

nursing from the time when Florence Nightingale founded modern nursing in the nineteenth century. Since Nightingale, a variety of ...

Self-Care Deficit Theory, Dorothea Orem

The SCDNT regards the meta-paradigm of "Nursing" as an art, that is, a "helping service," but also as a technology ("Dorothea," 20...

Cost of ED Care Services

forces," but rather drive from the "whim of the C.F.O. of the hospital" (Bernard B.1). The article goes on to explain that certain...

Colostomy, Stoma and Peristoma Care

be optimized: "The whole patient, should be assessed and physical, mental and social factors taken...

Family and Nursing Practice, Dialysis Unit

that the concept of family that is most helpful to nursing practice is one that considers not only members of the immediate nuclea...

Abstract for a Fall Intervention Policy Proposal

increased; the incidence rate has risen from 15% to 35%. The problem is the increase in the rate of falls and a need to reduce the...

Aspects of Substance Abuse

For example, the Addictive Personality theory maintains that addiction is not due to the chemical effect of the drug, but rather i...

Plan to Implement and Evaluate a Fall Prevention Strategy

also need to be training of clinical staff to run the program along with an alert system so that the healthcare workers of the ind...

Nursing Course Evaluation

It also is clear that readily accessible primary care services are essential to achieving effective health care reform. The World ...

Forensic Pathology Of Sudden Unexplained Death

and process evidence with the intent of catching the perpetrator. While not all sudden unexpected death is of a criminal nature, ...

Fluoride: Overview

dental problems or cancer. So acute is this problem that in 2005 the EWG pushed for fluoride to be included in the National Toxic...

Terminally Ill Patients and Palliative Care

"many emotional, medical, and practical needs. These needs change over time, depending on the trajectory of...

Australian Duty of Care/Emergency Services

or her field of duty is encompassed by the law of the Northern Territory of Australia, specifically the Personal Injuries (Liabili...

Three Business Ethics Questions

simply because the company did not want to lose money by taking the crib off the market. The social costs theory goes a step furt...

Questions on Managed Care and Medicare

Unlike the nonprofit hospitals that are becoming increasingly rare, HMOs are not required to provide any service to anyone who is ...

Acute Care Facilities and HIPAA

leaving one job for another has created are entrenched in insurance underwriting. Many people with pre-existing conditions are fea...

Children and Legal Responsibilities

for decision making (Lexis, 2004). This approach also reflects the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (Cretney , 1998). Ho...

Nursing Self Care Deficit Theory of Dorothea Orem

operations of nursing" (Horan, Doran and Timmins, 2004, p. 30). This is broken down into three basic categories: 1) wholly compen...

Summary and Analysis of the Film Daddy Day Care

care center. The woman who runs this other day care center tries to foil all efforts of Charlie and his buddies. But, as would be ...

Child Welfare, Religion, Freedom, Social Responsibility, and Parental Rights

MD, CM contended that the parents ultimate refusal/postponement of the recommended procedures resulted in the "increased patient s...

Program of Dental Managed Care

Numbers and Types of Patients Treatment Type Daily Total Annual Total Age Group Perio Oper Prosth Endo Income Income 20 - 30 2 1...

Pain Management for the Elderly

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

Questions on Managed Care Answered

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

Australia Focus on Breast Cancer

carcinoma in situ (DCIS). This is also known as "intraductal carcinoma or non-invasive breast cancer" (Breast Cancer, 2004; p. PG...