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Treatment Sequence for Attending to an Unconscious Patient with Suspected Poisoning

Treating non responsive patients presents challenges. This paper looks at the approach to treatment and sequence which should be u...

Impact of Schizophrenia on Patients and their Families

The paper is a literature review on the topic of schizophrenia and the impact and influence that the condition has on patients and...

EBP Approach to Substance Abuse Disorders

This 3 page paper provides an overview of how Evidence-based practice is used to treat substance abuse disorders. This paper inclu...

HTN and Transcultural Nursing

a discussion and review of literature that focuses on hypertension (HTN) among minority ethnic groups, with a particular emphasis ...

Neuman Systems Model

"interactive, systems, and developmental" approaches (Tourville and Ingalls 21). The systems model of nursing perceives the meta...

McCubbin and Patterson/Double ABCX Model of Family Stress

stressor pileup. Therefore, in their model, they double the concepts labels, using a capital letter behind each of the original la...

Improved Health Care Relationships between Stakeholders

health results from individual action, willpower and sustained efforts, while an eternal locus of control is characterized by beli...

The Kidneys and Renal Failure

"three important hormones: erythropoietin ... or EPO, which stimulates the bone marrow to make red blood cells; renin, which regul...

Proximity to Nephrologist and Mortality Among Hemodialysis Patients

nephrologists can be a particularly concerning factor in health care outcome. Methods...

Nursing Philosophy for Professional Practice

nurses should understand these patients thoroughly, "who they are, where they live and with whom, their current health status and ...

Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP)

factors that have been identified include "diabetes, alcoholism, malnutrition, history of antibiotic or corticosteroid use, decrea...

Article Critique/Hospice Patients/Symptom Intensity

incorporated into this study is extensive. The research team breaks this discussion into three subheadings: Assessment Congruence ...

Ethics, Blood Transfusions & Jehovah's Witnesses

be immensely helpful in gaining insight into the specific issues involved and subsequent perspective on what course of action to t...

Chronicity & Illness Trajectory

refers to being allergic to multiple forms of stimuli. Chronic illness not only impacts the patient, but also the patients family ...

Controlling Asthma

Surveys suggest there are more asthma patients with uncontrolled asthma than patients themselves think. The Asthma and Allergy Fou...

Advanced Practice Nurse And Informatics

Elderly, which requires a document signed by the doctor as well as certain health records to be faxed. Even though the same report...

Article Critique/Online Cancer Support Groups

these elements were viewed as variables that could significantly influence patients attitudes(Im, et al, 2007, p. 706). This quest...

Breast Cancer Research & Ethics

personal opinion can affect human behavior, and the frequently complicated nature of ethics complications in cancer research. It a...

Enhancing Cultural Competency

leaders should facilitate their development of trans-cultural nursing skills such as being able to assess patterns that are eviden...

Alzheimer’s and Therapeutic Recreation

2001). Current theory suggest that the disease initiates the internal cell-death programs which exists in neuronal cells (Marx, 2...

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...

Ethical Analysis of Wrong Extremity Amputation

consent must be made through a signed legal document (Retsas and Forrester, 1995). In all cases consent must be freely and volunt...

Patient Education That Are Both Successful and Unsuccessful

of her post-polio syndrome left her unable to completely void her urine, which in turn led to the development of further UTIs. Da...

Patient Consent Issues

clear that the patient is taking part in a decision-making process, and not simply signing a form. In practical terms, of course, ...

Elderly Citizens and Considerations for Community Health Care

the near future, however. This presents potentially severe consequences for the economics of elder care. The stakeholders in this...

ICU Patients and Communication

"ICU syndrome" (Elliot and Wright, 1999). In its milder form, ICU syndrome was characterized by the presence of confusion and memo...

Gibbs' Reflective Model and a Reflective Learning Document

undue fear created but there is also an appreciation of the true nature of the condition and the care the patient needs to take of...

Nonadherence to Medical Instructions: Walker and Avant

issue via conceptual analysis, inasmuch as Walker and Avant provide specific steps that allow one to wholly define the ambiguous a...

Hospital Innovation Program Education Proposal

over their blood glucose levels; and (3) encouraging continuous improvement in nursing knowledge and patient education. The progr...

COPD and Rehabilitation

symptoms so that they might seek help at the onset of a respiratory event and to acquaint them with the causes of their condition ...