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Quality Indicators and Nurse/Patient Ratios

literature and also "analysis of ICD-9-CM codes," which were reviewed by a "clinician panel," offering specific IQs that address i...

Utilizing Electronic Patient Records Systems

pilot studies 1. Introduction The potential benefits of technology in the health industry are enormous. In the past the use ...

Mandatory Nurse-to-Patient Ratios

the American healthcare system, the debate concerning whether or not states should implement mandated nurse-to-patient ratios rema...

Nutritional Needs of Intubated Patient, COPD

This research paper describes COPD, a case study, and then presents recommendations for meeting his nutritional needs. Five pages ...

Balancing Patient Confidentiality and Other Ethical Principles

This paper outlines a dilemma that arises when a patient requests secrecy upon revealing physical abuse to a student nurse. There...

Mandatory Overtime, An Issue that Endangers Patients

This essay gives an overview of why mandatory overtime for nursing staff is a significant issue that as the potential to harm pati...

Patient-Doctor Conflicts

This essay reports the case of a depressed teenager who attempted suicide. The attending physician is not his regular doctor. The ...

Interventions for Patients

This essay provides information and insight on different psychotherapeutic interventions for different mental illnesses. Psychodyn...

Diabetes Patient Education

In a paper of five pages, the author provides a narrative review of an educational meeting on improving diabetes management throug...

Recent Encounter with a Patient with Chest Pain

This research paper pertains to a nursing encounter in which a patient presented with chest pain. The writer discusses NIC, NOC an...

Cancer Patients and Nutrition

This research paper/essay offers a discussion of the importance of nutrition and its effects on cancer survivors. Three pages in l...

Meal Plan for a Cancer Patient

This paper offers a meal plant designed to address the needs of a cancer patient. Three pages in length, six sources are cited. ...

Multidisciplinary Teach Back Intervention

More than 25 percent of patients with heart failure are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge and half are readmi...

Noncompliant Patients Due to Culture

The United States has become more and more diverse over the last four decades and that diversity continues to expand. Different cu...

Patient Safety Issues, Nursing

This paper offers discussion of several aspects of patient safety. Three pages in length, five sources re cited. ...

Total Joint Patients, Decreasing Infections

This research paper pertains to decreasing surgical site infections in total joint arthroplasty patients. The writer draws on rese...

PATIENT COMPLIANCE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF A SOCIAL NET

A literature review about the importance of friends, family and neighbors on patient compliance when it comes to healthcare. There...

Patient Safety and DMAIC

This research paper/essay pertains to a hospital improvement project that involved medication administration and involved the DMAI...

Elderly Patients/Insulin Administration

This paper consists of a table that provides details from seven research studies that all describe insulin administration and elde...

Elderly Patients/Insulin Administration

This paper pertains to an EBP project proposal that involves a shift from SSI (sliding scale insulin) to the basal-bolus approach....

Patient-Centered Medical Homes an Article Analysis

This 3 page paper gives an analysis of the article titled Guiding Transformation: How Medical Practices Can Become Patient-Centere...

What Can Therapists Say About Patients

There are numerous regulations and codes that mandate and/or guide the mental health professional on the subject of confidentialit...

Decreasing Re-Hospitalization in CHF Patients

This research paper pertains to a proposal for a capstone project in which telemonitoring and skilled nursing visits are utilized ...

Reducing Re-hospitalization of CHF Patients

This paper presents the speaker notes to an eighteen page PowerPoint presentation, khteleCHF.ppt, which pertains to a project that...

Different Method to Control Mental Health Patients

Seclusion and constraints have been the traditional way to control mental health patients when they lose control. This has always ...

Frequent Nocturnal Urination, Older Male Patient

This paper focuses on the problem of nocturia, which refers to frequent nighttime urination. Assessment, causes, and management ar...

Article Critique/Cancer Patient Distress

Literature Review As the above summation indicates, the researchers provide a logical and persuasive argument for their selection...

Doctor - Patient Confidentiality

Hippocratic oath extends not just to what a patient might tell a doctor but also to what a doctor concludes in regard to a patient...

Nursing Home Patients And Their Vulnerabilities During Disasters

food, clean water and - most important for some people who did not survive - electricity to keep their life-sustaining equipment r...

Teaching Patients How to Use the Internet

look for the date that the page was last updated to ensure that the latest health information on that subject is offered. The last...