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Nursing: Article Reviews

some determining the study was inconclusive, others saying certain interventions should be made universal and still others stating...

Organizational Change in St. Vincent's ICU

Hospital. The purpose here is to describe and evaluate the restructuring of St. Vincents ICU to gain one-on-one nursing and so im...

Nursing Leadership Organizations

This essay covers several topics. The first is a report of the writer's time management skills. The paper reports nursing organiza...

Community-Based Case Management Journal Article Critiqued

Carondelet St. Mary's model of community-based case management was the source of an article titled Community-Based Case Management...

Nursing Ethics and Operations Management

1999). Lee and his family owned a small business and had no health or medical insurance. The family was urged to begin the process...

Nursing Case Mgmt./Asthma

this condition. If the student does not have asthma, the student may feel motivated to help this population because of he/she rea...

The Elderly and Alternative Care Choices

runs $127 on average (Cummings, 2002). The goal of the ALF is to help senior citizens maintain as much independence as possible wi...

Overview of Respiratory Therapy

regards to lung function. If patients cannot breath on their own, RTs are trained on how to intubate patients and connect them to ...

Overview of Home Health Nursing Field

as business practices, documentation systems, process flows and lines of communication can differ (Blevins, 2001) Home health nur...

Mental Health Industry Audit

significant changes to the existing system but have not yet covered too much ground where modifications are concerned. This is pa...

Difficult Decision Making

as sadness. My Dad quickly smiled and patted me on the back, but in my heart I knew that my decision would forever change the cou...

Analysis of Costs of Decubitus Ulcers in Elder Care Facilities

Furthermore, if the ulcers end up in hospitalization, the nursing home is responsible for those costs as well. Even if the patient...

Shannondale Nursing Home and Its Historical Development

been in operation for some time, and it currently is building a retirement community of duplexes for those over 55 who do not yet ...

Nursing Home Admissions' Perception versus Reality

to a nursing facility, it should also be understood that each situation is unique. When both the family members and the staff of t...

Issues Pertaining to Hospital Facilities

and how this equipment should differ for this population: Bariatric patients are typically defined as those who are extremely obe...

Merger Leads to Redsigning Jobs

Many of the physicians on staff had graduated from Harvard Medical School and tended to think themselves superior to everyone and ...

Orthopaedic Nursing Journal Article Reviewed

In ten pages a tutorial review on the article 'Discharge Teaching Work Strategies for Patients and Families for Care in the Home'...

Long Term Nursing Home Care

In eight pages this paper discusses nursing homes for long term care in a consideration of choices, features, and transitional rec...

Nursing Home Industry Employee Issues

In five pages this paper considers issues of incompetence and incapacitation as they relate to nursing home industry workers in a ...

Nursing Home Industry and the Effects of 1935's Social Security Act

Social Security Act of 1935. In simplest terms, the Social Security Act of 1935 designated nearly $50 million of federal funds to...

Carobeth Laird's Limbo A Memoir About Life in a Nursing Home by a Survivor

This book regarding the degrading treatment of senior citizens in nursing homes is reviewed in five pages. There are no other sou...

Abuse of Senior Citizens and Care in Nursing Homes

In seven pages this paper discusses the appalling accusations of abuse of senior citizens in nursing homes in a consideration of v...

Nursing Home Industry and Patient Care Costs Determination

In six pages this research paper examines the nursing home industry and considers the increasing costs of patient care due to an e...

A Qualitative Study, Fall Prevention

This paper summarizes and analyzes a qualitative Norwegian study that examined the experiences of home care nurses in regards to f...

Feedback from a Mentor on Presentation Proposing a Fall Prevention Program

The writer provides some feedback that may have been provided by a mentor, looking at a presentation given by the student. The pr...

Presentation for the Implementation of a Fall Prevention Strategy

The paper is a presentation designed to introduce and explain a new fall prevention policy for a home care nursing agency. The pr...

Practicum Outline

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

Phenomenology and Addressing Elderly Depression

the staff endeavors not only to care for our residents physical needs, but also for their psychological, social, and emotional nee...

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...