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Furthermore, if the ulcers end up in hospitalization, the nursing home is responsible for those costs as well. Even if the patient...

been in operation for some time, and it currently is building a retirement community of duplexes for those over 55 who do not yet ...

The following are the five DSM-IV-TR Diagnoses based on the DSM Five-Axis determinations: Axis I: Alcohol dependence...

Medical Center, 2002). It is estimated that 13 to 18 million adults suffer from incontinence at some time or other (Mercy Medical...

as business practices, documentation systems, process flows and lines of communication can differ (Blevins, 2001) Home health nur...

"syndrome of behavioral deficits and excesses that have a biological basis but are nonetheless amenable to change through carefull...

runs $127 on average (Cummings, 2002). The goal of the ALF is to help senior citizens maintain as much independence as possible wi...

regards to lung function. If patients cannot breath on their own, RTs are trained on how to intubate patients and connect them to ...

reporting and administrative reporting so that the owner can have confidence that HHH is providing superlative patient care and me...

In 2001, health care spending as a percentage of GDP was 14.1 percent, or $5,035 per capita (Levit, Smith, Cowan, Lazenby, Senseni...

the nurse is uncertain of which tasks are appropriate to delegation, as well as the skill level of UAPs, their reluctance becomes ...

?19a-490, Connecticut Department of Public Health Code ?19-13-D105 and Residential care homes ?19-13-D-6 (National Academy for Sta...

have "little or no training in fundamental management skills" (Baer, 2006, p. 60). As well as absenteeism, problems with managemen...

that puts the topic of this study, as well as past research, within an appropriate philosophical framework. Tang then cites the ...

not as drugs, which means that these remedies do not undergo the rigorous testing that is required for prescription medicines (He...

Budget cutbacks, burnout and lack of student enrollment have precluded sufficient staffing in many critical areas of healthcare. ...

HIV-positive nurses being a threat to patients and other health care workers. Research clearly supports the reality of the situat...

recognized categories for APNs within this state (TBoN, 2006). The scope of practice for Tennessee APNs includes the legal abili...

(Green, 2004a). A travel nurse, on the other hand, is typically contracted to work a 13-week period, and this usually includes an ...

noted that cases of a rare lung infection, pneumocystis carinni pneumonia, had occurred in Los Angeles and also that three young m...

paternalistic approach that has been favored by physicians. Watsons theory stresses nurses should "honor anothers becoming, autono...

to individuals connected by a blood tie. However, to be a "family," members must "live in close contact, care for one another, an...

for my patients. Personal philosophy of nursing: Tourville and Ingalls (2003) offer a fascinating and very apt analogy to descri...

reality of the profession. It needs a makeover much as it had in the 19th century in Brittan when nursing reformers struggled to h...

This essay includes three sections. The fist section reflects on tempered change strategies as described in a journal article. The...

A study by the Joint Commission revealed that communication failures were implicated at the root of over 70 percent of sentinel ev...

when nurses are needed the most, which is when we are ill (line 12). This is when "Nurses come through, with their care and goodwi...

A pertinent issue to foreign nurse recruitment, as a method for alleviating the shortage of nurses in US hospitals, is the number ...

have otherwise been a lingering existence in private homes or disreputable hospitals. Inasmuch as the nurse is "temporarily the c...

of the site is that it connects to numerous opportunities for continuing education and there is a page dedicated to this purpose. ...