SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Issues in Health Care

Essays 2461 - 2490

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...

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...

Panic Attacks, Haitian American Immigrant

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Public Guardianship

proposes a commission that would develop a recommendation for the State Legislature to create such an office. It further describes...

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...

Reducing Falls Rates - Presentation of a Proposal

The paper is a presentation made up 12 slides and notes for the speaker. The presentation outlines a protocol for a new multifact...

Plan to Implement and Evaluate a Fall Prevention Strategy

also need to be training of clinical staff to run the program along with an alert system so that the healthcare workers of the ind...

Nursing Course Evaluation

It also is clear that readily accessible primary care services are essential to achieving effective health care reform. The World ...

Diabetes Articles, Reflection, Synthesis

of literature pertaining to type 2 diabetes mellitus, begins by describing, summarizing and analyzing the study conducted by Barko...

Nightingale's Theory, Case Study of Elderly Woman

client who is the focus of this case study is an 86-year-old woman who has been living at home with her husband. Her medical histo...

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...

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...

Aspects of Substance Abuse

For example, the Addictive Personality theory maintains that addiction is not due to the chemical effect of the drug, but rather i...

Abstract for a Fall Intervention Policy Proposal

increased; the incidence rate has risen from 15% to 35%. The problem is the increase in the rate of falls and a need to reduce the...

Medical Intervention or Chiropractic Care for Scoliosis?

In eight pages an overview of scoliosis considers whether or not it should be treated by chiropractic care or some form of medical...

Andre DuBus' 1991 'Killings'

in the story where a judgment is made concerning the validity of revenge. The argument is made that a killing will not restore ...

Nursing's Philosophy of Caring

In five pages this paper discusses contemporary nursing and the caring philosophy's role. Seven sources are listed in the bibliog...

Patient Care Quality and Nurse Staffing

In six pages this paper considers studies that explore the link between patient care quality and nurse staffing. Five sources are...

Caring Theory, a Critique

nurse-patient relationship, the nurse gives without the expectation of reciprocation (1991). Thus, a patient need not return the f...

Maternal Care and Psychological Problems

This paper examines how detrimental experiences during childhood can impact upon the care of mothers in later years in five pages....