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Personal Emergency Response Systems/Patient Outcomes

of four (Bernstein, 2000). Its use also reduces hospitalizations by 59 percent and yields a benefit to cost ratio of seven to one,...

Significance of Patient Satisfaction

Policy Institute found that only 28 percent of the hospital chief quality officers surveyed felt that patient satisfaction with th...

Effects of DOT on LA TB Patients

Patient adherence to a prescribed chemotherapy is particularly crucial to the goal of positive patient outcomes in regards to trea...

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...

Prostate Cancer and Quality of Life

& McCorkle (2002) did not explicitly state any research problem or research question, but they do identify two objectives for thei...

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...

Anxiety Level in Elderly Patients & Primary Language

language competency. The results of this study confirmed that the BEST oral interview can be used successfully within the context ...

3 Nursing Diagnoses for an Elderly Patient

the case study, is important for planning a safe and effective rehabilitation program (Craven and Hirnle, 2007). People who experi...

Prevalence of Depression in Cardiac Surgery Patients

by Johansson, Dahlstrom and Brostrom (2006), they found 10 studies that examine4d the relationship between depression in HF patien...

Focused Clinical Inquiry of Hip Replacement Patient

someone who was less than one of the "real nurses," in his estimation, he found that the young nursing assistant accomplished the...

Multicomponent individualized smoking cessation intervention for patients with lung disease

(Townsend, 2000). This study is advantageous in many other ways as well to the nursing educator. It utilizes methodologi...

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...

Endometrial Cancer: Overview, Patient Assessment And Educational Plan

focusing equally upon causes and prevention as it is upon treatment and sustained recovery (Feig et al, 2006). Also known as uter...

The English Patient/Theme of Nationalism

blank slate for the imaginings of those around him, particularly Hana. Myth "crosses international boundaries and offers apparentl...

Example of a Medical Patient Case Study

In six pages this medical student intern psychiatry case model format includes history of the illness, mental state, and other per...

Special Needs of Pediatric Patients Regarding Dental Hygiene

In six pages the needs pediatric dental patients have pertaining to hygiene and hygienists' advantages in influencing children to ...

Alcoholic Patients and Liver Transplantation

In ten pages this paper discusses the access to liver transplants for patients who are recovering alcoholics from the philosophica...

Terminally Ill Patients and Hospital Resource Allocation Ethics

In four pages this paper considers terminally ill patients, space making allocation, and the ethical dilemmas that surround this d...

Elderly Patients and Minimizing Physiological and Psychosocial Tracheal Tube Stresses

In five pages this paper discusses the postoperative stresses that are represented by tracheal tubes particularly as they involve ...

Alcohol Treatment Therapy and Issued Involving Lesbian and Gay Patients

In seven pages this paper examines alcoholism treatment of homosexual patients in a consideration of various counselor issues. Fo...

Pregnant Patients Smoking Cessation Through Nurse Intervention Programs

in a general form that not only is not useful, but also can lend the appearance of the issue being of less importance than it trul...

Neck and Head Cancer Patients and Quitting Smoking

In nine pages a research proposal on this topic is presented. Twenty sources are cited in the bibliography....

Article 'Power to the Patient' by Mattie Tolley, RN, MS

This paper consists of five pages and discusses long term health care facilities and senior citizens' loss of autonomy. One sourc...

Pros and Cons of Chemotherapy for Cancer Patients

In ten pages an evaluation of cancer patients using chemotherapy treatment is presented through a consideration of its recovery ad...

Terminally Ill Patient, a Nurse's choice Not to Resuscitate, and the Resulting Lawsuit

In six pages this nurse's job loss is examined in terms of the reasons behind it after her failure to save a terminally ill patien...

AIDS Patients and Nursing

In five pages this paper discusses issues relating to patients with AIDS and nurses. Twelve sources are cited in the bibliography...

Methods of Rehabilitation for Cardiac Patients

In a paper consisting of fourteen pages the various types of rehabilitation methods cardiac patients have to consider are discusse...

Relationship Between Patient and Doctor and the Process of Building Trust

patients were approached and volunteered to serve in focus groups to discuss the trust issue. The patients ranged in age from 26 ...

Homeless Patients and a Nurse's Role

In five pages this paper discusses the plight of the homeless and health care access in a consideration of a nurse's role. Six so...

Dementia Patients and Sexual Compulsion

In two and a half pages this paper discusses dementia patients in terms of sexual addiction in a consideration of etiology and tre...