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Addressing a PICO issue with a Hospice Patient

inflammation and improve appetite (Hawthorn, 2010). Mary was particularly disturbed by the malodor caused the malignant lesion,...

The Impact of Censorship on Art in South Park's "Episode 201"

cartoon South Park has become infamous due to the circumstances surrounding its censorship. The episode was quite heavily censored...

Medical Practice: How Insurance Changed the Industry

a great deal throughout the 20th century. As the quality of care increased, patients began living longer, and the focus of medicin...

An American View of Dying and Death

that many adults have to being placed in nursing care (Ciechanowski et al, 2004). The degree of social isolation along with depen...

Changing Social Views on Dying and Death

of death often occurs without the presence of loved ones and in the absence of any great fanfare. While some cultures create an e...

Two Article Summaries

provided details of the processes use to make changes in order to create a safer environment and reduce injuries, it was found tha...

Assessing Research

in the home and individuals suffering from dementia. The background literature review sites a wide range of sources, including res...

Assessing Research

The writer looks at a research article by Lach and Chang (2007) entitled Caregiver Perspectives on Safety in Home Dementia Care" p...

Advanced Practice Nursing Roles

the various roles and responsibilities that the specialty involves, they share the common quality that the nursing process is inhe...

QI Questions

for example the use of different Total Quality Management (TQM) tools (Mintzberg et al, 2008). The use of performance measurement ...

Texting from a Symbolic Interactionist Perspective

This is particularly true when it comes to secrets or complaints. Someone may complain about their boss in a text but accidentally...

Diabetic Ketoacidosis, A Case Study

among the classic symptoms of diabetic ketoacidosis. The pathophysiology of these symptoms results from the buildup in ketones due...

Pneumonia Care. Article Review

points: In this informative article, Holcomb begins by first differentiating between hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP), which is p...

Practicum Outline

computerized or electronic patient records. 1c. To discuss these findings with supervisor/mentor to consider how the information...

Practicum Example for a Nursing Course

of falls in elderly chronic patients at that home. 1c. Discuss findings with supervisor/mentor. 1a. The creation of a detailed...

Personal Nursing Philosophy

perspective, is viewed as "the optimal level of ones potential relating to the environment" (Tourville and Ingalls 22). For examp...

Effects of New Health Reform Policy

income (Douglas & Burke, 2010; Kaiser Family Foundation, 2011). Medicare taxes on net investment income will also increase from 0....

Primary Prevention in Diabetic Care

can be easily determined via the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) and by testing fasting plasma glucose (FPG), as these tests ar...

Ethical Dilemma with a Newborn

insist that full intervention for their baby should continue. The Ethics Committee is consulted, informed about the case, and they...

Diabetic Patient, A Care Plan

cholesterol and triglyceride level was also above normal to an extent indicating the necessity for intervention. The most disturbi...

Assessing the Success of an IT Implementation in a Healthcare Setting

The writer presents a paper which looks at the implementation of electronic patient records for a company providing medical care f...

Child Care Center Newsletter

influential on parental behavior. The first newsletter should convey to parents the philosophy of teaching, as well as behavior ...

Theological Foundations Pastoral Care

it has changed over the years as the society changed. The same is true for the theological foundations of pastoral practice. Inter...

Nursing Studies: Identifying the Underlying Theoretical Frameworks

order to infer what theoretical framework is being utilized, and why such a framework is appropriate for the context. This parag...

Panic Attacks, Haitian American Immigrant

therapy (Scheinbaum, 2012). Despite the considerable numbers of Haitian immigrants living in the US, which increased following t...

Tools to aid with Quality Implementations in a Home Care Agency to Help Reduce Fall Incident Rates

populations in other settings (Gray-Miceli, 2007). The aim of this risk model is to identify adults which are most likely to be at...

Family and Nursing Practice, Dialysis Unit

that the concept of family that is most helpful to nursing practice is one that considers not only members of the immediate nuclea...

Cost of ED Care Services

forces," but rather drive from the "whim of the C.F.O. of the hospital" (Bernard B.1). The article goes on to explain that certain...

The Development of Healthcare Financing in the US

millennia ago, it is the first recorded use of pooled payment systems to proved healthcare. There are many examples of similar soc...

Reducing Falls in Home Based Patients

implemented. The initial implementation will be for a three month period with a pilot area, which will be used to optimise the f...