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Artificial Nutrition/hydration & Terminal Pediatric Patient

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

Gender Identity Patient Disorder Diagnosis, Treatment, and the Film Boys Don’t Cry

by persistent discomfort with ones sex" (Meyenburg, 1999, p. 305). This gender identification with the opposite sex typically com...

Patient Service Improvements of NPs

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

Hypertension Education for African American Patients

in response to cognitive and physiological challenge" (Covelli, 2007, p. 323). Diet: Both the intake of dietary sodium and potas...

Conversion Disorder

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

Safe Nursing and Patient Care Act

"study and report to Congress on standards for the maximum number of hours that a nurse may work without compromising the safety o...

How Exercise Delays Onset Of Dementia In Alzheimer's Patients: Literature Review

protocol. Rosenberg et al (2005) and Larson et al (2006) detail the pursuit toward getting the elderly population in step with be...

Appalachian Patient: Cultural Considerations For Medical Treatment

proximity and/or behavior man has imposed upon his own species. Social norms play an integral role in both setting and meeting th...

Grundy, Virginia/Helping an Elderly Patient

care home agencies also offer data on each service that is provided by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and acco...

Mandated Nurse-to-Patient Ratios

nursing skill levels and patient mix" (Minimum staff levels, 2004, p. 33). However, the researchers found that a "greater total nu...

Culturally Competent Care In Psychiatric Hospitals

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

REQUIREMENTS FOR A PATIENT EDUCATION PAMPHLET

and concisely, and there are no major medical terms that might cause someone to stumble. But theres nothing really exciting to loo...

Exercises for Parkinson's Disease Patient

to the assignment prompt and call the client "Mr. Fox" or "Michael," if the student is so inclined. Walking is highly recommende...

"Psychosocial Treatments For Bipolar Depression" - Analysis

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

Managed Care and its Impact on Poor/Minority Patient Care

Concepts, theories, principles and practices in managed care and the health services industry in regards to social, economic, and ...

Hospital Patient Safety

for patient safety identified these specific goals. For obvious reasons, these are copied directly from the Commissions Web page. ...

Quality Indicators and Nurse/Patient Ratios

literature and also "analysis of ICD-9-CM codes," which were reviewed by a "clinician panel," offering specific IQs that address i...

Mandatory Nurse-to-Patient Ratios

the American healthcare system, the debate concerning whether or not states should implement mandated nurse-to-patient ratios rema...

Utilizing Electronic Patient Records Systems

pilot studies 1. Introduction The potential benefits of technology in the health industry are enormous. In the past the use ...

Critique of Llewelyn and Hume Article on How Patients Perceive Therapy

style to be clear and unbiased. These were then categories by qualified psychologies into one of three groups, behavioural therapy...

Self Care Patient Education Plan

This means that some learn material better when they hear it said to them, while others learn best when they are able to read the ...

Patient Outcome and Defining the Contribution of Nursing

authors have explored the importance of the holistic approach in positively impacting patient outcome. As early as the 1970s rese...

Patient Care and the Adaptation Model of Callista Roy

All care is the responsibility of the medical team with which these patients have surrounded themselves. It is the patients respo...

An Article on Breast Cancer Patients and Food Choices Critiqued

been the principal focus in current research (1997). Studies focusing on school children generally include a food preference compo...

Cardiac Patients and Propranolol Use

produce rennin. Renin is a protease that is released by the kidneys and have the effect of cleaving angiotensin I to angiotensin, ...

Acute Renal Failure and Dialysis Patients, Nutrition, and Nursing

infinitely more to the aspect of nursing than administering medicine; in fact, the myriad components that ultimately comprise the ...

Pain Management Choices and Patients Rights

quite succinctly. The Dax Cowart case, that has become rather well known, involves a seriously injured man who was left ...

'A Noiseless Patient Spider' by Walt Whitman

Whitmans lyric style -- "A Noiseless Patient Spider." Although the subject of the poem is a lonely spider, the tone is formal, wh...

Whitman Poetic Comparison of A Noiseless Patient Spider, Drum Taps, and Song of Myself

for repetition and free flowing verse to express his ideas and was considered not only exceptional because of these elements but a...

Literature Review of Terminal Cancer Patients and Hospital Care Quality

is important to note aspects of hospitalization which are perceived by patients dying of cancer as negative experiences that incre...