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there is no cure either for Alzheimers disease or the various forms of dementia on the horizon, healthcare practitioners should "i...

need of treatment following tours in Rwanda, the Balkans and Somalia" (Auld). Mental health problems in regards to soldiers retu...

Additionally, at the completion of this study intervention, evaluation of results showed that the project also resulted in improve...

official entity until 1993. Today it addresses an array of nursing issues. The goals of the program are: * "Promoting quality in...

to the medications needed to ensure their health. Beginning in 2004, Medicare began to offer aid, $600 a year, for covering the co...

the research, which includes finding a definitive measure for the health status of the homeless. This is a reasoned, extensive rev...

could be called human biological life; or(2) human personal life that includes biological life but goes beyond it to include other...

indicates, restraint places health practitioners between the proverbial rock and a hard place. However, there are practice standar...

In addition to these operational benefits, the state in which databases exist today enable organizations to use the data contained...

individuals who collectively utilize this approach to humiliate as a show of solidarity, which is often hidden in the form of goss...

Rural Nurses, represented by registered nurse and practicing attorney Jacqulyn Hall, filed an amici curiae (friends of the court) ...

however, Jones requested an ethics consult on the case due to the fact that Johns psychosocial evaluation had caused Jones to have...

authors state that research "and theory are key underpinnings that guide safe, effective, and comprehensive" (p. 35) practice. As...

(Briggs, 2003). At the lower levels of the hierarchy there is also a very clear and specified role to accept "personal responsibil...

minority groups. They are frequently poor and have little education. Scrandis, Fauchald and Radsma describe a "Charlottes Web of C...

According to one research study, the top five reasons why nurses employ restraints are "disruption of therapies, confusion, fall p...

of ear infection (Chronic otitis media, 2003). OM is a serious childhood illness because, if not properly treated, it can lead to ...

is simply to require that their nursing staff make up for understaffing by working mandatory overtime on a more or less permanent ...

with standardized procedures, health codes, and licensing requirements, all of which have been initiated to support a level of pro...

professionals has come into view as an element of this discourse. Nurse professionals, who once worked directly under the wing ...

and religious background and beliefs, as well as how the health/illness continuum works within the framework of their life. "Env...

(Wichowski, 2004). This certainly appeared to be the case for Elvis, as he complained about the "Croatian people" in his head who ...

(1999), research shows that the level of education reached by an RN contributes to a sense of professional autonomy and those nurs...

Have you had any experience in helping a friend or family member manage diabetes? The patient replied that she was not aware of...

The metaparadigms of nursing represent common concepts that are accepted throughout the profession and across international bounda...

activities" (Orems Self-Care Model Concepts) that patients need to undertake to meet their own health care needs on a routine basi...

ensuring that a significant proportion of stroke victims survive and retain their independence. This is important not only from th...

operations of nursing" (Horan, Doran and Timmins, 2004, p. 30). This is broken down into three basic categories: 1) wholly compen...

In ten pages this paper examines the increasing health care industry practice of hospital mergers and the problems with them and s...

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...