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New Performance Measure for Hospitals

There is a new method of assessment for the performance of hospitals. It is national and standardized which will allow consumers a...

Nursing Shortage

higher nurse-to-patient ratios suffer an increased rate of burnout and experience greater dissatisfaction with their jobs. In resp...

Healthy Work Environments: Decision Making In Nursing

volumes regarding the vastness of the human mind. Moreover, it is virtually impossible to have critical thinking present without ...

Continuing Education

the "5 As," the steps are: 1) ask the patient if he or she smokes, 2) advise him or her to quit, 3) assess the willingness to...

Patients Going to Latin America for Treatment

Medical and dental costs have soared in the United States. Insurance plans are sometimes tricky in their language and they do not ...

Depression And Diabetes: Article Reviews

2001. Primary focus was placed upon newly-diagnosed patients at least twenty-one years of age. That they had depression was dete...

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Data

Post-traumatic stress disorder or what is more commonly referred to as PTSD has only been diagnosed using these terms since the la...

Focused Clinical Inquiry of Hip Replacement Patient

someone who was less than one of the "real nurses," in his estimation, he found that the young nursing assistant accomplished the...

The working hours of hospital staff nurses and patient safety (Questions and Answers on this journal article)

not stated, what would you say the research question is? If there are secondary ones, state those research questions. The primar...

DVT and Evidence-Based Practice

breath (King, 2003, p. 24). The factors comprising the triad are "venous stasis, vessel wall damage and coagulation changes" (Van ...

Patient-Doctor Conflicts

This essay reports the case of a depressed teenager who attempted suicide. The attending physician is not his regular doctor. The ...

Diabetes Patient Education

In a paper of five pages, the author provides a narrative review of an educational meeting on improving diabetes management throug...

Interventions for Patients

This essay provides information and insight on different psychotherapeutic interventions for different mental illnesses. Psychodyn...

Nutritional Needs of Intubated Patient, COPD

This research paper describes COPD, a case study, and then presents recommendations for meeting his nutritional needs. Five pages ...

How to Better Help Schizophrenic Patients

This paper points out the importance of using evidence-based practices with people who have schizophrenia. The paper includes sect...

Teaching Patients and Students About Disease

There has been a dramatic increase in the number of people diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, including an increase in the number of ...

Meal Plan for a Cancer Patient

This paper offers a meal plant designed to address the needs of a cancer patient. Three pages in length, six sources are cited. ...

Multidisciplinary Teach Back Intervention

More than 25 percent of patients with heart failure are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge and half are readmi...

Cancer Patients and Nutrition

This research paper/essay offers a discussion of the importance of nutrition and its effects on cancer survivors. Three pages in l...

Patient Safety and DMAIC

This research paper/essay pertains to a hospital improvement project that involved medication administration and involved the DMAI...

What Can Therapists Say About Patients

There are numerous regulations and codes that mandate and/or guide the mental health professional on the subject of confidentialit...

Patient-Centered Medical Homes an Article Analysis

This 3 page paper gives an analysis of the article titled Guiding Transformation: How Medical Practices Can Become Patient-Centere...

Reducing Re-hospitalization of CHF Patients

This paper presents the speaker notes to an eighteen page PowerPoint presentation, khteleCHF.ppt, which pertains to a project that...

PATIENT COMPLIANCE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF A SOCIAL NET

A literature review about the importance of friends, family and neighbors on patient compliance when it comes to healthcare. There...

Total Joint Patients, Decreasing Infections

This research paper pertains to decreasing surgical site infections in total joint arthroplasty patients. The writer draws on rese...

Group Therapy/Heart Patients with Depression

Heart disease is known to have a significant relationship with depression, which can greatly complicate the processes inherent in ...

Controlling Catheter-Related Infections in Hemodialysis Patients

utilized a taurolidine and citrate solution to eliminate the catheter biofilm which is associated with infection. Taurolidine was...

Prosthetic Knee Prototype for Pediatric Patients

phases of gait, the kinematics of the anatomical knee and the specific issues for pediatric prosthetic knee users, relates some of...

Patient Services/Women’s Health

a study whose purpose was to determine the way in which patients perceive patient education efforts. This research revealed that c...

Electronic Patient Records and Ethical Issues

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at the use of electronic patient records. Example case studies highlight the risks and b...