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This study employed a prospective pre-test and a post-test randomized control trial design and a sample group of 53 senior adults ...

leaders should facilitate their development of trans-cultural nursing skills such as being able to assess patterns that are eviden...

background and knowledge to evaluate when there is a need to consult a transcultural nurse specialist, as these specially trained ...

anxiety or address a family problem, they may prefer faith-based counseling simply because its in a language that fits them and th...

Budget cutbacks, burnout and lack of student enrollment have precluded sufficient staffing in many critical areas of healthcare. ...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

blank slate for the imaginings of those around him, particularly Hana. Myth "crosses international boundaries and offers apparentl...

to take expensive prescription medications as prescribed. This acerbates medical conditions and results in increases in acuity lev...

the insertion of a central line, threaded through a vein, and it was once believed that it would aid cancer patients, restoring ap...

the situation, the charge nurse might take a number of different actions in response to this information. For example, the charge ...

focusing equally upon causes and prevention as it is upon treatment and sustained recovery (Feig et al, 2006). Also known as uter...