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Personal Electronic Patient Record

as long as they know whos records they are looking for and how to access them. The next stage from this that avoids the delays eve...

Patients with Suppressed Immune Systems and Basic Precautions

made of cotton or cotton blends, which absorb rather than repel fluids. One of the most important precautions that a nurse can t...

The Theory of Human Caring

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

The Nurse Educator, Postprostatectomy Patients and Informative Websites

Dr. McCullough is "Director of the Sexual Health and Male Fertility and Microsurgery Programs at New York University School of Med...

PATIENT PRIVACY AND SECURITY SYSTEMS

This 8-page paper discusses the importance of patient privacy and how a patient privacy plan to can be developed and implemented. ...

A Case Study Concerning the Move to Electronic Patient Records

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

Patient Consent Issues

clear that the patient is taking part in a decision-making process, and not simply signing a form. In practical terms, of course, ...

Critical Incident Analysis in Nurse Management

and certainly health care facilities. In essence, the minimum requirements of nursing dictate that: * the nurse remain cognizant ...

Nursing Home Admissions' Perception versus Reality

to a nursing facility, it should also be understood that each situation is unique. When both the family members and the staff of t...

Ethical Analysis of Wrong Extremity Amputation

consent must be made through a signed legal document (Retsas and Forrester, 1995). In all cases consent must be freely and volunt...

Patient Education That Are Both Successful and Unsuccessful

of her post-polio syndrome left her unable to completely void her urine, which in turn led to the development of further UTIs. Da...

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...

Medical Error and Quality Care

of a busy dermatological practice. This dermatologist see as many as 100 patients a day and is known as an "expert in the evaluati...

Medical Law

In order to determine whether or not the consent form signed is valid we need to consider the concept of informed consent. The con...

Adverse Effects to Antipsychotic Drugs

a fever, and a variety of other symptoms (Boyd, 2008). It is the variety of symptoms associated with NMS that become a significant...

Refusal of Care: The Ethical Dimensions

refers to instances in which patients who have been admitted to a health care facility decide to refuse treatment from doctors (Lo...

Influences on Patient Healthcare Service Provider Communication

information being given to the patient by the doctor. Anecdotal evidence from those who were patients at the time remember importa...

The Issue of Unresponsiveness of Physicians in the Hospital Setting

In a paper of four pages, the writer considers the issue of the unresponsive patient, especially as it impacts patient care. This...

Holistic Patient Care: An Example

from the commune to provide support for Helen in the hospital setting. Some general concerns occurred as a result of the assessme...

Dementia Patient and Health Care

of dementia depend on the cause of the disease. However, in all senses of the definition of dementia, it is irreversible and will...

Stroke Patients and Nursing Case Management

Partially as a result of improved heath care practices which result in longer life and partially as the result of the movement aw...

Home Health Agency Information Technology Upgrading

means of the company. Current Work Process Purpose of the Work Process The "home health" sector of the health care industry...

Gibbs' Reflective Model and a Reflective Learning Document

undue fear created but there is also an appreciation of the true nature of the condition and the care the patient needs to take of...

Ethical Treatment of Patients and the 1975 Film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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

HTN and Transcultural Nursing

a discussion and review of literature that focuses on hypertension (HTN) among minority ethnic groups, with a particular emphasis ...

Improved Health Care Relationships between Stakeholders

health results from individual action, willpower and sustained efforts, while an eternal locus of control is characterized by beli...

COPD and Rehabilitation

symptoms so that they might seek help at the onset of a respiratory event and to acquaint them with the causes of their condition ...

Access to Care for Underprivileged, ESRD in NC

and Abecassis, 2010). Available treatments for ESRD and economics of treatment from an organizational perspective: The only trea...

Urinary Catheters - Experiences and Feelings of Patients

in the study had suffered at least one urinary tract infection in the preceding 24 months. Wild (et al, 2010, p309) found an even ...

Consent and Refusal of Treatment

to refuse treatment independently of their parents wishes; the second position holds that parents have the sole right to this deci...