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While CHF has a mortality rate that ten times that of AIDS and is also responsible for far more hospitalizations than cancer, even...

infections can, of course, relate to a number of factors. The type of care needed can vary both according to the type of wound an...

is designed to ensure that "Patients have access to needed care" and that healthcare providers are "free to practice medicine with...

not just in adverse impacts to the patients themselves but also in significant societal costs. Wounds that are improperly cared f...

of different causative factors (Clinician Reviews, 2007; Hunter et al, 2002). Extrapolated prevalence rates for constipation in t...

as a central tenet to professional practice (Hanks, 2010). Both the American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics and the Code ...

or another, enter into ethical quandaries as a result of their regular operations. This is because virtually all organizational ac...

and retention" (Andersen, 2002, p. 603). This then should be the first priority: to design a study that will accrue and retain ...

which resulted in 47 practices taking part and two of these having two patients. The sample : 98 (75 male) consecutive patients w...

operating room to recovery, the tracking of patient information becomes an imperative part of this process (Beyea, Hicks and Becke...

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

Hippocratic oath extends not just to what a patient might tell a doctor but also to what a doctor concludes in regard to a patient...

medications or they could be a sign of depression (Turner and Kelly, 2000). Turner and Kelly (2000) state strongly that it is e...

counselor, often causing even greater tension than what already exists and drawing away from the ability to forge an alliance. Se...

long after all signs of consciousness have ceased. Is this "good"? Is this beneficent? The news tells us of parents confronting me...

with mental illnesses may reach out to drugs or alcohol to ease the pain they are feeling. It becomes very difficult to separate t...

cancer affects both the man and his life partner. In most cases, study designs addressing quality of life issues for prostate canc...

the patient die (1975). Consider the case of a patient with terminal throat cancer, who is in terrible pain which cannot successfu...

whoever the client might be, that is, an individual, family, group or community. The third provision indicates that nurses are als...

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

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

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

language competency. The results of this study confirmed that the BEST oral interview can be used successfully within the context ...

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

of dying and that some of this research indicated significant differences in this awareness. This leads into a discussion of what ...

is the development of Mishels Uncertainty in Illness Scale (MUIS), which is comprised of twenty-eight item measure that utilizes a...

be used. Discussing qualitative research in general provides a topic to which outside sources can be logically applied. This write...

include HPAI in a local bird population and contact with another patient with an unexplained repository disease and a positive res...

This paper is made up of three sections, with each section pertaining to a significant hospital administration issue. These topics...

This research paper presents a proposed project that address the introduction of antiretroviral therapy in regards to treating HIV...