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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...

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...

Providing Healthcare in an Effective Manner- What Can be Learned from HIV Strategies

To deal with the HIV crisis many lesser and middle income countries had to develop innovative and cost effective strategies to de...

Nursing Caring Theory

This essay focuses on Watson's nursing theory of caring. It reports and explains the meta-paradigms, caratives, and how nurses dev...

Best Practice in Ensuring Infected Wound Healing

potential for long term physiological complications as well as long-term emotional impacts. Not only does the type of care needed...

Organizational Change in St. Vincent's ICU

Hospital. The purpose here is to describe and evaluate the restructuring of St. Vincents ICU to gain one-on-one nursing and so im...

Controlling Asthma

Surveys suggest there are more asthma patients with uncontrolled asthma than patients themselves think. The Asthma and Allergy Fou...

Article Critique/Hospice Patients/Symptom Intensity

incorporated into this study is extensive. The research team breaks this discussion into three subheadings: Assessment Congruence ...

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...

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...

Nursing a Muslim Patient

different ways, In communication a starting point is the presence of verbal and non verbal communication. Different cultures may h...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Proximity to Nephrologist and Mortality Among Hemodialysis Patients

nephrologists can be a particularly concerning factor in health care outcome. Methods...

The Kidneys and Renal Failure

"three important hormones: erythropoietin ... or EPO, which stimulates the bone marrow to make red blood cells; renin, which regul...

Hospital Leaning Center

A 6 page paper about establishing a learning center in a hospital. The dimensions and location of the center is reported, includin...

Advanced Practice Nurse And Informatics

Elderly, which requires a document signed by the doctor as well as certain health records to be faxed. Even though the same report...

Article Critique/Online Cancer Support Groups

these elements were viewed as variables that could significantly influence patients attitudes(Im, et al, 2007, p. 706). This quest...

The Impact of Culture in Medical Care

"how they relate to others. It influences the way patients respond to medical services and preventive interventions and impacts th...

Breast Cancer Research & Ethics

personal opinion can affect human behavior, and the frequently complicated nature of ethics complications in cancer research. It a...

Memory Deficits Due To Alzheimer's

illustrated how certain aspects such as genetics, disease and environment diversely impact the extent of human memory, with old ag...

Alzheimer’s and Therapeutic Recreation

2001). Current theory suggest that the disease initiates the internal cell-death programs which exists in neuronal cells (Marx, 2...

Chronicity & Illness Trajectory

refers to being allergic to multiple forms of stimuli. Chronic illness not only impacts the patient, but also the patients family ...

Ethics, Blood Transfusions & Jehovah's Witnesses

be immensely helpful in gaining insight into the specific issues involved and subsequent perspective on what course of action to t...

Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP)

factors that have been identified include "diabetes, alcoholism, malnutrition, history of antibiotic or corticosteroid use, decrea...