SEARCH RESULTS

More than 25 percent of patients with heart failure are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge and half are readmi...

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

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

HIV-positive nurses being a threat to patients and other health care workers. Research clearly supports the reality of the situat...

Culturally competent care appropriate for a psychiatric hospital is considered a basic and primary component of nursing given the ...

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

pay for treatment that is not covered by insurance and families without insurance are not required to pay (SJCRH, 2008). Furthermo...

intensive care unit (ICU) (Scholle and Mininni, 2006, p. 37). Bedside nurses are encouraged in many hospitals to make a MET call...

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

Heart disease is known to have a significant relationship with depression, which can greatly complicate the processes inherent in ...

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

motor vehicle crashes, substance abuse, and illegal behavior" (Visser, Lesesne and Perou, 2007, S99). Symptoms include irritabili...

classify medical errors (Pace et al., 2005). In fact, there are taxonomies to classify errors but they are not standardized (Pace ...

and Perou (2007) report that an estimated five to eighteen percent of youth in the US are diagnosed with ADHD and most receive so...

by Johansson, Dahlstrom and Brostrom (2006), they found 10 studies that examine4d the relationship between depression in HF patien...

patient, the attending nurse is seldom in the room at the same time. The attending physician may refer the patient to a cardiologi...

language competency. The results of this study confirmed that the BEST oral interview can be used successfully within the context ...

and Blood Institute, 2007). Zardi and colleagues (2008) referred to this procedure as the "gold standard" (p. 48) for assessing th...

and theoretical Framework: The instrument designed for use in this study drew heavily upon the survey developed by Cole, et al, wh...

someone who was less than one of the "real nurses," in his estimation, he found that the young nursing assistant accomplished the...

points out, medicalization is a process that defines a problem in terms of the practitioners perspective and cultural biases, rath...

life in prison for patient death (Jacko & Sears, 2003). HIPAA is comprised of five major titles that are applicable to each provi...

there are those that are relevant to childrens protection as well, such as confidentiality. For example, during a recent visit tw...

a peaceful death among terminal patients. HSBs of specific groups of any size - whether large or small - are positively related t...

the case study, is important for planning a safe and effective rehabilitation program (Craven and Hirnle, 2007). People who experi...

movement disorders, such as Parkinsons and dystonia. This procedure was initially developed in 1987 in France (Song, 2006). This a...

to base their arguments on more spiritual and ethereal ground, such as the idea that a persons life ends when God chooses to end i...

in place for some time, and none of the fears surrounding it have ever materialized (Seale, 2006). Research shows that 171 people ...

"encouragement of facing probl4ems/fears, support of efforts to master problems/ears, affective experiencing/catharsis" (Coady 15)...

cancer affects both the man and his life partner. In most cases, study designs addressing quality of life issues for prostate canc...