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

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

meals to all Orthodox Jewish patients should be investigated by hospital administrators if they are not already in place. Furtherm...

the fever? Was it related to an infection in the surgical wound? Was the patient developing atelectasis and pneumonia? Or, was the...

indwelling foley and compression boot. Her dressing is dry and intact. She was discharged with Percocet 5mg q6. Analysis and Out...

to the bill as did many nursing executives, arguing that there was sufficient legislation already on the books that dealt with sta...

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

This 15 page paper discusses seven patients who suffer from various forms of mental illness, and argues that there may be an under...

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 ...

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

In seven pages the confidentiality issues nurses must contend with are discussed within the weighty context of the trust between p...

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

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

Partially as a result of improved heath care practices which result in longer life and partially as the result of the movement aw...

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

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

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

The second groups criticism is based basically on the premise that there are lots of jobs available which would mean that employer...

This paper considers the role of patients' religion and how it should impact nursing care. The writer focuses on the way in whic...

several years. Psychologically, it has been found that individuals more actively involved with their own health care often fare m...

not money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely woul...

to the wide-ranging aspect of nursing than merely administering medicine; in fact, the myriad components that ultimately comprise ...

hospital stays (Cole and Soucy, 2003). While all ICU patients have serious and potentially life-threatening conditions, those ov...

In two pages an article featured in a nursing journal is reviewed that considers the correlation between patient health care quali...

In six pages this paper examines nursing care from the perspectives of nurses and patients as reported by this Australian study. ...

of the patients in a single unit will be assigned to one RN; the other half will be assigned to another. Another will be availabl...

York found that, in the past, ambulance diversions were a seasonal event. However, more recent research finds that diversional sta...

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

the various roles and responsibilities that the specialty involves, they share the common quality that the nursing process is inhe...

This research paper pertains to actions that nurses undertake to aid heart failure patients in regards to self-care management. Th...