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Wit & Palliative Care

also a former student of Vivians is now in the rather awkward position of also being one of her doctors, as he is an intern and re...

ICU Delirium

hospital stays (Cole and Soucy, 2003). While all ICU patients have serious and potentially life-threatening conditions, those ov...

Marketing Activity - Promotion : Case Study

the themes, graphics and copy effective? No * Are the chosen media adequate? No Public Relations (which includes publicity) * Do...

U.S. Naval Hospital, Guam : Competitive Analysis

mission statement directs the activities of the hospital. Not only does the hospital provide the care, they provide education to p...

Statistics in Surgical ICU

within institutions where manual charting of ventilators settings is performed well, "automatic data collection can eliminate dela...

Patient’s Possessions & Cultural Competency

arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways and all other products of human work and thought..." (Purnell, 2005, p. 7). It is the eth...

Colostomy, Stoma and Peristoma Care

be optimized: "The whole patient, should be assessed and physical, mental and social factors taken...

Dynamics of A Group Meeting To Develop a Health Plan

to undertake this task in order to attain the desire goal, this needs input for all the members of the group. The goal is generall...

Hospital Disclosure

hospital is not exactly easy, and in some cases impossible." This would suggest that Auers (2006) reported average of five percent...

Nursing at the End of Life

by the caring physical presence of this nurse in her last remaining hours. However, the way in which this case turned out saw the ...

Rapid Response Team: Quick Recognition And Intervention Of Problems At Va Medical Centers

being more capable of acting proactively and preventively. The philosophy of nursing is something much grander and more complex t...

Diversification & Miami Valley Hospital

"favorable degree of product differentiation" when considered against those services as they are currently being offered in physic...

Wound Care/Wet-to-Dry v. Advanced Dressings

the same manner, however, this dressing is intended to stay moist until removal; however, this may become a wet-to-dry dressing in...

Human Becoming Nursing Theory of Parse

moment to moment as the changing patterns of shifting perspectives weave the fabric of life through the human-universe interconnec...

Patient Scenario on Stroke Examination

affect patient outcomes (Finley, 2004). The degree to which Mr. Smith will be affected by the stroke, and, indeed, his very survi...

Rehabilitation and Acute Stroke Units

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

Terminally Ill Patients and Palliative Care

"many emotional, medical, and practical needs. These needs change over time, depending on the trajectory of...

Literature Review of Incidences of Septic Shock and Sepsis in ICU Patients

result in septic shock. Of that 200,000, approximately half result in death due to the onset of sepsis and the subsequent septic ...

Community and Patient Nursing Care and Meningococcal Meningitis

the disease as well as around the prevention of the spread of the causative organism to other individuals that come into contact w...

Senior Citizen Mental Illness Workplace Management and Prevention of Violence

to nonadherence to medication in the mentally ill elderly is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connot...

Geriatric Care Quality

balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...

Hispanics and Diabetes Management

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

Balance of Philosophy and Nursing Values

not money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely woul...

Oral Hygiene Protocol and Nursing Practice

Hanson (2004) recommends a toothbrush, but specifies that it should be soft and that non-abrasive toothpaste should be selected. P...

Terminally Ill Patients and Nursing Care

the needs of the dying and her work indicates that there are times when the most meaningful communication that a nurse can offer i...

Hospital Rapid Response Team Implementation

been as long as 8 hours prior to dying (IHI, Getting, 2005). Had additional services been provided, the patient would not have die...

Rapid Response Team Establishment and Change Process

This is the list of alternative solutions to address the identified problem. For example, training and education will be needed in...

Review of Lethal Dose by Steven Snodgrass

cringes with the thought that the technological advancement of bioethics has rendered an offshoot as unsavory as euthanasia wards....

Teenagers and Pallative Care

have changed considerably over the last century. This change is associated with a number of factors, the most prominent being our...

Case Study of Overland Human Resource Management

groups of people an important element of the way in which HRM strategy can be spread. Originally Hofstede identified four ...