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prior to being admitted to the care facility, it is possible that these needs are not being met. There is also the religious need ...

The problem is that the system is broken when it comes to getting appropriate healthcare to the uninsured. Even if Congress passes...

to adopt healthy living habits (Schiavo, 2007). The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) says health communication is ...

to provide adult individuals, at the time of inpatient admission (or enrollment) information about state laws rights concerning ad...

Visiting Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Tulsa. Linda W. Cardillo is a doctoral student in the School of...

is not an expectation based on fact or knowledge, it is based on hope. 2. Clinicians personal and professional values Personal ...

at any given time. More than a decade ago, Bigelow and Arndt (1995) suspected value in TQM in the hospital setting but wrote, "Th...

Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Tulsa. Linda W. Cardillo is a doctoral student in the School of Journali...

an overview of the issues that surround massage and the literature that support the fact that it is an effective approach in the t...

influences can be broken down into political, economic, social and technological. Political influences are one of the most importa...

particular condition because he at least is aware of his condition. About one-half of those with this disease are not as fortunat...

there is very little information about predisposes people to these episodes (Swann, 2006). Therefore, for the most part, nursing a...

include an understanding of how insulin functions to control glucose levels and the interaction between variables that can affect ...

six months the intervention group had only 68 compared to 118 in the control group, likewise quality-of-life was found to be highe...

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

moving onto the objectives, looking at the alternatives and considering the consequences and the trade offs. In this paper we will...

management (DM) concept Disease management (DM) is defined as a "systematic clinical improvement process," which addresses both ...

was evaluated using the Beth Israel Medical Center flow sheet sedation scale (Loewy, et al, 2006). If, after 30 minutes, the patie...

this incident may have contributed to her divorce. It is also true that her mother has had a problem with alcoholism for over twen...

ask these questions because he is trying to find out if the patient has any understanding as to why his behavior makes him uneasy;...

in resistant strains of bacteria (Plonczynski, 2005). This situation suggests that changes in antibiotic prophylactic procedures ...

The purpose - indeed the entire study - does not specifically identify variables that can be labeled as independent. It is not an...

predicting mortality and morbidity. Authors provide a section to explain and explore the existence of natriuretic peptides. Anoth...

patient care (Hassmiller and Cozine, 2006). Some strategies proposed by RWJF for helping to decrease the tremendous workload on nu...

Researchers have identified nutrition as a significant factor in wound healing. In fact, it has been argued that nutritional elem...

patient (Seidel, 2004). This author also states that effective communication is something that can and must be learned (Seidel, 2...

Disease Control and Prevention, impacts almost twenty-five percent of American women who are reported to have been abused at some ...

Dr. Nakanishi points out that that a large number of Asian American students attend "multiracial, low-income...low-performing scho...

This 92 page paper examines the potential of peer to peer (P2P) as an efficient architecture for the UK National Health Service (N...

to holistic nutrition with a prescriptive connotation as being used as "an alternative to, or in conjunction with, traditional med...