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Review of a Research Article Investigating a Strategy to Improve the Sleep for Carers of Patients with Dementia

able to justify the need for research in this area and provide a rich background. The literature review takes research from a rang...

Life in Art in In the Skin of a Lion and The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

with Seven Toes, Ondaatje appeals to the innermost recesses of the readers soul. The author has a long history of reaching out an...

Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie, The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, and Postcolonialism

In five pages these texts are compared in terms of how postcolonialism manifests itself in each. Three sources are cited in the b...

Love and Its Power in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

her womanhood, she is one who lives at the mercy of her desires. Not aware -- or at least not caring -- about the havoc she wreak...

Evidence-Based Practices Nursing

In health care, implementing evidence-based practices refers to making decisions about patient care that are based on the best evi...

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Data

Post-traumatic stress disorder or what is more commonly referred to as PTSD has only been diagnosed using these terms since the la...

Discussion of Change Theories for Specific Field

The paper begins by briefly identifying and explaining three of the standard change theory/models. The stages of each are named. T...

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, however, mandated electronic health records for all Medicare and Medicaid pati...

Personal Definition of Nursing

upholding the human dignity of the people involved, as well as their "unique biopsychosocial, cultural, (and) spiritual being" (LM...

Interview: Public Health Official

political outcry might exist from the opposition. In the delivery of health care, the awareness of the bioethical "good" sets the...

De Bono's Six Thinking Hats

care their loved one would want at this point inasmuch as she has no directives. The most significant of potential problems in ha...

Margaret Sanger

hold a great deal of authority when it comes to changing the attitudes and perspectives of young girls who may believe living off ...

Reflection Process Recording

of abilities that serve to engage, relieve, understand and respect the patient. The extent to which reaching for their feelings i...

Elderly Privacy In An Institutionalized Setting: Ethical Issues And Social Work Involvement

need to be less oriented to rules and dilemmas, and more attuned to practical matters of everyday social experience" (pp. 19-22); ...

DVT and Evidence-Based Practice

breath (King, 2003, p. 24). The factors comprising the triad are "venous stasis, vessel wall damage and coagulation changes" (Van ...

Advantages Of Effective Incentives In Health Care

United States health services system are not the sick and injured, but rather the physicians, health service institution administr...

Gay Men Adjusting To HIV Treatment

sparse for the HIV-positive gay man beyond that of the homosexual community, however, Serovich et al (2006) point out how the choi...

Leadership and Management in Nursing

management, in recent years, has been quite extensive. This body of empirical evidence and commentary largely supports the concept...

High Nursing Turnover Rate

based on a research study that surveyed over 2,000 RNs who provide direct nursing care in three mid-western hospitals. This result...

Dementia

emotional (limbic) memories are affected, and the last group of memories to be affected as the "motor or more reptilian memories,"...

Infection Sentinel Event Outcomes

myriad. They can range from poorly designed equipment to overwork; poor communication to lack of safeguards (Kohn, Corrigan and D...

Family Systems Theory

equilibrium" (Christian, 2006). Each of these features lies within their own continuum. For instance, while all families establish...

Cognitive Restructuring

meet, however, people in the throes of emotional instability are often incapable of offsetting the destructive thoughts that wande...

Data Warehouse Architecture Model For The NHS

This 92 page paper examines the potential of peer to peer (P2P) as an efficient architecture for the UK National Health Service (N...

Article Critique/Handling Difficult Situations/Daily Care

include not only the emotional impact of being experienced by the patient and the relatives involved, but research has also relate...

Article Critique/Perceptions of Palliative Care

(in English) between the years 1989 and 2004. The extent of the literature review appears to be sufficient to support the research...

Nursing Shortage And Access To Quality Care

that hospital nurse staffing levels are inadequate to provide safe and effective care" (DPE Research Department, 2003). Physicians...

Nursing Need to Delegate

the nurse is uncertain of which tasks are appropriate to delegation, as well as the skill level of UAPs, their reluctance becomes ...

Depression And Diabetes: Article Reviews

2001. Primary focus was placed upon newly-diagnosed patients at least twenty-one years of age. That they had depression was dete...

Depression And Diabetes: Dietary Choices Of The Elderly And Young Adults

compromised health. Whether diabetes incites depression or is brought about by already-existing depression is a concern that Brow...