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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...
not as drugs, which means that these remedies do not undergo the rigorous testing that is required for prescription medicines (He...
this development and left orders for both analgesia and sedation, which helped at first, but became less effective as the hours pa...
Budget cutbacks, burnout and lack of student enrollment have precluded sufficient staffing in many critical areas of healthcare. ...
stress, which causes fluctuating levels of neuro-endocrine responses (Taylor, Repetti and Seeman, 1997). To understand this concep...
HIV-positive nurses being a threat to patients and other health care workers. Research clearly supports the reality of the situat...
of abilities that serve to engage, relieve, understand and respect the patient. The extent to which reaching for their feelings i...
actions. It has been over a decade since the passage of the American with Disabilities Act (ADA), which means that the 5 and 10 ye...
(in English) between the years 1989 and 2004. The extent of the literature review appears to be sufficient to support the research...
care service has been the focus of greater scrutiny. Willging (2004) asks: "Just what is assisted living? There are still too ma...
"become a universal law" (Kant, 1993, p. 30). In other words, Kants main criteria for action is that the individual should conside...
hospital stays (Cole and Soucy, 2003). While all ICU patients have serious and potentially life-threatening conditions, those ov...
objective in conducting their study was to "describe the experience of men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer and their wives,...
is wheelchair bound, but nevertheless cooks for herself and shops for herself in a nearby grocery store, using her motorized wheel...
experience, particularly that immigrant experience as it occurs within the modern medical environment, revolves around cultural un...
MEDMARX is thought to be the most comprehensive reporting of medication error information in the nation (Morantz & Torrey, 2003). ...
At the heart of nursing is the nurse-patient relationship, which provides the foundation for nursing care (Patusky, 2003). This r...
states, "The nurse promotes, advocates for, and strives to protect the health, safety and rights of the patient" (Code of Ethics f...
military personnel and other non-combatants. While McConnell was seeing her charges safely to Japan, General Douglas MacArthur was...
and statistics. This approach works well for in physics and math, but less well when applied to people. Moloney (2002) offers thre...
a little less than a third of them were under the age of 40 (Meadows, 2002, p. 46). This offered conclusive proof that number of ...
the elderly. The Nurse Practitioner announced in its July 2000 issue that reports of the AMAs petition had been received as...
caused by the illnesses the may then have a negative physiological backlash on the patient. For other condition it may be the ro...
risk factor, but is of less consequence among those diabetics who pay close attention to their blood sugar levels, test often and ...
Conroy and Nottoli (1999) report the case of Henry, an irascible octogenarian who easily was the most difficult patient in the ski...
achieved that the critical care nurse may address the bio-psycho-social implications of the event (Alfafara and Hedges, 1996). Fur...
reveal a steady growth in the number of nurses joining unions due to discontent" (Blankenheim 2001, p. 13). They are doing so to l...
already has been diagnosed as having some form of heart disease. In that sense, primary prevention is not possible. The goals of...
with "depression, sleep disturbance, fatigue, and decreased overall physical and mental functioning" (Hearn, 2001). Problem Stat...
to a nursing facility, it should also be understood that each situation is unique. When both the family members and the staff of t...