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Acquired Brain Injury Patients and PT

every one-thousand children. Some forty-one thousand children aged five to fourteen in the U.S. alone are inflicted with this con...

Terminal Patients and Hospice Healthcare

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

2005's Safe Nursing and Patient Act, Legal and Ethical Concerns

is simply to require that their nursing staff make up for understaffing by working mandatory overtime on a more or less permanent ...

Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Images of Darkness and Light

with the world of tradition, the world of civilization. Huddled within the womb-like interior of the Congo, he retreats ever furth...

Patients and Diabetes

of condition in terms of importance due the impact on lifestyle and ability to result in death is not treated correctly (King et a...

Stroke Patient and Increases in Urinary Tract Infections

third of women with urinary tract infection will experience a recurrence during the following year, with recurrence being most com...

Nursing Diabetes Patient Education Internet Websites

on diabetes into categories and addresses these topics on separate web pages, as does the first site. The homepage explains that t...

Patient Scenario on Stroke Examination

affect patient outcomes (Finley, 2004). The degree to which Mr. Smith will be affected by the stroke, and, indeed, his very survi...

Nursing and Teaching Patients

also as a result of the environment in which they are cared for, where smoking is banned. Teaching patients may be seen as a funct...

Hand Washing and the Care of Patients

preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...

Patient Service Improvements of NPs

and unequivocally made significant strides" within their specialty over the last two decades (Geiss and Cavaliere, 2003, p. 577). ...

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 ...

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...

Protecting Patient Files

any of the organizations system which are not available to the general public, which will include the patient records it should be...

Mandated Nurse-to-Patient Ratios, The Debate

to the passage of the California law (Tevington, 2011). Currently, Connecticut, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Texas an...

Economic Implications of Different Ventilation Choices for COPD Patients

beneficial or having no impact, negative or positive on most patients outcomes (Agarwal et al, 2009; Masip et al, 2005). The ben...

Reducing Falls in Home Based Patients

implemented. The initial implementation will be for a three month period with a pilot area, which will be used to optimise the f...

Type and Incidence of Falls in Patients of a Home Care Nursing Agency

only injuries in 53% of the falls recorded. It should be noted that for other types of injury there were some cross overs, for exa...

Noncompliant CHF Patients, A Health Education Intervention

regards to taking prescribed medications is a common phenomenon among patients. It has been estimated that roughly 10 percent of a...

A Proposal to Assess Measures to Prevent Infection for ERSD Patients

In a paper of five pages, the author reflects on the use of methods to reduce infection for patients with End Stage Renal Disease....

Management of Diabetic Patients and Nurse Practitioner Practice

risen in the US population, there has been corresponding increase in the incidence of diabetes mellitus, which is associated with ...

Research Proposal To Assess the Value of CBT For Patients Diagnosed with Depression

to similar patients that are not receiving CBT. In order to undertake this research the following questions will need to be answ...

Impact of Persistent Diseases

As we live longer, we are subject to acquiring one or more chronic illnesses, some of which come with advancing age. Older age ran...

Prostate Cancer and Quality of Life

& McCorkle (2002) did not explicitly state any research problem or research question, but they do identify two objectives for thei...

Conversion Disorder

such as tragedies, deaths, serious injuries or threatening situations, require the human being to respond in a way that intensifie...

"Psychosocial Treatments For Bipolar Depression" - Analysis

the combined efforts of intense psychotherapy and standard bipolar medications. Achieving optimum health represents the primary g...

Nursing Philosophy for Professional Practice

nurses should understand these patients thoroughly, "who they are, where they live and with whom, their current health status and ...

Contemporary Nursing Ethics

this development and left orders for both analgesia and sedation, which helped at first, but became less effective as the hours pa...

Herbal Medicine/What Nurses Should Know

not as drugs, which means that these remedies do not undergo the rigorous testing that is required for prescription medicines (He...

Nutrition and HIV

mineral supplement" every day (Ungvarski, 1996). Empirical evidence shows that there is a "synergistic and interactive relations...