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use of continuing education to improve patient care (Sterman, Gauker & Krieger, 2003). Effects of nursing rounds, call light use, ...

A 5 page research paper that offers a summary of evidence relating STD incidence in older populations and how whether nor this con...

the balloon, and certain gestures, were definite responses to the environment and evidence of consciousness, but the doctors disag...

A number of studies have argued that peritoneal dialysis has the potential to benefit end stage renal disease patients medically a...

This research paper presents an examination of nursing empirical literature that covers a number of issues relevant to advanced pr...

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

serious enough to keep her in the ICU unit for three days. Still, it did not take long for Eleanor to resume her activities at ver...

age. Therefore, the patient population is increasing. This factor is also influenced by the fact that that the huge lump in the Am...

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...

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

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

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

the difficulties and losses inherent with aging. The assumption is often made that, with age comes transcendental wisdom, but res...

indicated as an advantage of PICCs can be initiated at the bedside by a registered nurse, which avoid the need for general anesthe...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

the supply by 2010 (Kleinman and Saccomano, 2006). Traditional nursing care models, such as primary nursing, are founded on the su...

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

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

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