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

the patient die (1975). Consider the case of a patient with terminal throat cancer, who is in terrible pain which cannot successfu...

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

there is very little information about predisposes people to these episodes (Swann, 2006). Therefore, for the most part, nursing a...

at any given time. More than a decade ago, Bigelow and Arndt (1995) suspected value in TQM in the hospital setting but wrote, "Th...

an overview of the issues that surround massage and the literature that support the fact that it is an effective approach in the t...

is not an expectation based on fact or knowledge, it is based on hope. 2. Clinicians personal and professional values Personal ...

Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Tulsa. Linda W. Cardillo is a doctoral student in the School of Journali...

Visiting Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Tulsa. Linda W. Cardillo is a doctoral student in the School of...

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

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

paying salaries). Patients are going to generally go to hospitals where their doctors are - though when it comes to emergencies or...

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

are told what they should do by their physicians. For example, if a patient visits a doctor and due to age parameters, he or she w...

in the U.S. stands at 8.5 percent to over 14 percent, depending on the specific area of specialty (Letvak and Buck, 2008), by 2020...

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

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...

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...

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

hypoglycemia require different nursing responses. Mild hypoglycemia, which is defined by the symptoms listed above and a glucose r...

proven to be the principal reason for nosocomial infections, that is, infections that are acquired after hospital admittance. Impo...

Johns Hopkins University and member of the IOM research team that authored the report, said that "fatigue was a major cause of mis...

provide effective communication, the Band Aid song "Do They Know Its Christmas" a song which led to Live Aid was effective; this w...

and typically occurs by the time a person reaches their 70s. In the U.S., roughly 1.5 million fractures are caused by osteoporosis...

workplace is a critical component of occupational rehabilitation (Morrison, 1993). In one study it was found that employees of inj...