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policies in regard to the PSDA. I have been fortunate in that I was chosen to be a member of that team. Consequently, I have at ...

who are suffering from chronic ailments such as congestive heart failure, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), asthma and...

of literature about biomedical ethics relative to patient autonomy. This type of autonomy is limited, at best, with managed health...

reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...

much sugar remains in the blood and too little energy is transferred to other cells. The diabetic needs to take externally adminis...

2000). Even as recently as just a couple of decades ago, conditions such as cramps, pregnancy nausea and even labor pains were oft...

act maybe hard for the system administrators as it is lengthy, with 75 sections and a total of 16 schedules. However, this...

In 1992, for example, this organization issued a mandate that all hospital chief executive officers become familiar with continuou...

In seventeen pages this research paper examines the U.S. system of health care in terms of the empirical studies that indicate the...

people "with malicious intent" (Novogrodsky, 2006). If the information is innocuous, this may not be a problem, but it can be trou...

The New York City Police Commissioner was successful in reducing crime by targeting high crime areas and allocating resources to t...

has left the facility and has gone home to the comforts of home in order to spend the last days, weeks or months of their life in ...

is based on the greatest good for the greatest number of people. Or, it could be the greatest pleasure or good over the least pain...

2010). The first provision of the ANA code specifies that nurses should show "compassion and respect" in regards to the "dignity, ...

culturally competent care. Well examine what the literature has to say about such standards and, with this background, and an unde...

call for compliance with standardized procedures, health codes, and licensing requirements, all of which have been initiated to su...

2008). Incentive programs can actually have very positive outcomes if they are used correctly and ethically (Sabin, 2008). In so d...

The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010. It is a progressive, sequential act with different parts mandat...

This 10 page paper provides an overview of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. This paper includes four major changes ...

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

In five pages this research paper discusses quality care standard maintenance and the role played by nurse managers in sustaining ...

twentieth century, with accusations that it has failed to live up to the demands placed upon it by the ever-growing population, ef...

the inherent differences between models. Ultimately, an individual chooses a nursing model that is based upon and compatible with...

left to deny anything connected with the loss, either before or after the fact. Those left behind also need to acknowledge the me...

does not lead to the most able getting the job but that many positions are filled to make sure all goes accordingly in the "politi...

In three pages this research paper discusses how humor can be a modality that assists nurses in patient care as well as self care....

important to understanding the impact of interventions. One of the major problems noted by a number of theorists is that the exte...

prepared for this role" (McKenna, 1997, p. 87). Perhaps most significant of all was Florence Nightingales belief that env...

that is, whether it will spread (metastasize) and what symptoms that it is likely to cause (Cancer diagnosis, 2005). The term "sec...

this rhetoric was how the act would impact the millions of people in the United States who suffer from emotional or physical disor...