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Research Study Proposal/Hand washing

to wash their hands both before and after attending each patient. However, one physician-investigators asserts in reference to doc...

The New York City Marathon

running is an understatement according to Rubin. "To explain his excitement in the context of physical factors--heightened energy,...

HIV/AIDS & African American Women

"African American womens rights and underscores their physical, emotional and sociocultural vulnerability to HIV/AIDS" (Williams, ...

The Lebanese/Israeli Crises: How The Media Handles This Social, Economic, Political And Cultural Issue

as significant as its ability to impart information. The theory of agenda setting asserts that mass media do not tell people outr...

Surgery Preparation of Hands

non-sterile paper. The participant would then use a sufficient amount of the aqueous alcoholic solution to fully cover the hands...

The Problem of Poverty and HIV/AIDS Risk for Black American Women

Study The central goal of this study is to consider the social problem of HIV infection/AIDS and the role that poverty and race/e...

MRSA Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)

of settings ranging from nursing homes, to prisons, to athletic teams (Turabelidze, Mei Lin, Wolkoff, Dosson, Gladback, and Zhu, 2...

UK General Ward and Mental Health Ward Risk Management Comparison

(Briggs, 2003). At the lower levels of the hierarchy there is also a very clear and specified role to accept "personal responsibil...

Examination of Congestive Heart Failure

The link between behavioral components and risk factors has been a major element in the focus on nursing paradigms and treatment p...

AIDS

a HIV virus is ready to duplicate it forms long precursor chains of polyproteins which split, under the direction of another enzym...

An Article Review on HIV/AIDS

virus they can be treated with new medications. The facts regarding HIV and AIDS are unfortunately much more disturbing. First, ...

Hand Washing and the Care of Patients

preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...

Dressings and Prevention of Infections Related to Catheters

risk of such infections. The CDC reports that the incidence of both local and bloodstream infections associated with peripheral ...

Study Proposal on UTIs and Cranberries

and a hypothesis as well as a sampling design, data analysis plan and how the data will be collected. A statement of data analysis...

Patients with Suppressed Immune Systems and Basic Precautions

made of cotton or cotton blends, which absorb rather than repel fluids. One of the most important precautions that a nurse can t...

Fear of Hand Sanitizer, a Statistical Sampling

time; there is now a class of staphylococcus bacteria that is resistant to all known antibiotics and has been blamed for the death...

Nursing Practice and Otitis Media

of ear infection (Chronic otitis media, 2003). OM is a serious childhood illness because, if not properly treated, it can lead to ...

Women, AIDS and HIV in the District of Columbia

2009"). In responding to the crisis, the city government has not recognized the way in which "policies, and structural factors hav...

Study on controlling MRSA/Article Critique

remained undetermined (Cepeda, et al, 2005, p. 295). The researchers identify associated issues and unanswered questions, which al...

Hospital Patient Safety

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

Upper Respiratory Infection and Stress

almost always changes when that person is feeling great stress. The person does things in an attempt to deal with and control the ...

Controlling and Preventing Pandemics

Pathogenic organisms have the potential to radically alter human life. Human beings, like all animals, are both directly...

Reducing Central Line Infections

blood stream infection (BSI) (CVC, 2005). *The Central Line (CL) Bundle, developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (...

UTI's Planning Health Program

rates per 100,000 by ethnicity in San Francisco are reported as: African-American, 1,302; Asian/Pacific Islander, 446; Latino, 535...

A Study of Methods to Prevent Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections

reducing the prevalence of CAUTIs. Research Support A range of supportive research will be utilized to develop the evidence...

An Abstract for a Study on CAUTI in Acute Care

essential to reducing the prevalence of CAUTIs. Research Support A range of supportive research will be utilized to develop...

Incontinence and the Elderly

was that the method was based on the assumption that all the relevant information would be obtained by these experts (National Gui...

Guillain-Barre Syndrome: Case Report

neck & trunk involvement and vomiting (two-and-a-half year old); tripping, voice change, difficulty swallowing, inability to sit u...

Symptoms and Treatment of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus

Cellulitis is an "infection of the skin"; boils are "pus-filled infections of hair follicles"; abscesses are "collections of pus u...

Urinary Tract Infections

An additional complicating factor for women is that, unlike males, they do not have the advantages of prostatic secretions that ac...