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for the family. Finances have been destroyed with assets being wiped out, the stress such illness creates in the other family memb...
later adding informational pamphlets discussing heart disease in the aging. My first meeting with Ms. Bross largely was informati...
some studies that address waiting times that patients invest in seeing physicians, however. McCarthy, McGee and OBoyle (2000) pro...
facility grew to over 1,000 beds and the addition of a many barracks-style buildings. The design for a new facility began in 1942 ...
with physicians to "Yes, doctor," the still-proceeding transitions in healthcare continue to elevate the position of nurse while n...
All of the results of this reengineering, however, were not as positive. The process had not taken into consideration the fact th...
has been estimated that between 49 and 83 percent of all elderly adults experience pain on a regular basis (Briggs, 2003). Desbi...
consent must be made through a signed legal document (Retsas and Forrester, 1995). In all cases consent must be freely and volunt...
of her post-polio syndrome left her unable to completely void her urine, which in turn led to the development of further UTIs. Da...
clear that the patient is taking part in a decision-making process, and not simply signing a form. In practical terms, of course, ...
level of problems for inpatients was 20.9% compared to only 8.4% for outpatients (Wilson et al, 2002). When asked to rate the serv...
"ICU syndrome" (Elliot and Wright, 1999). In its milder form, ICU syndrome was characterized by the presence of confusion and memo...
The Clinical Workstation Application of the 3M(tm) Care Innovation Expert Applications system focuses on providing clinicians and ...
symptoms so that they might seek help at the onset of a respiratory event and to acquaint them with the causes of their condition ...
some of the inmates to play poker with pornographic cards. He smuggles hookers in for several of the ward mates, and he threatens ...
undue fear created but there is also an appreciation of the true nature of the condition and the care the patient needs to take of...
of dementia depend on the cause of the disease. However, in all senses of the definition of dementia, it is irreversible and will...
means of the company. Current Work Process Purpose of the Work Process The "home health" sector of the health care industry...
made of cotton or cotton blends, which absorb rather than repel fluids. One of the most important precautions that a nurse can t...
as long as they know whos records they are looking for and how to access them. The next stage from this that avoids the delays eve...
issue via conceptual analysis, inasmuch as Walker and Avant provide specific steps that allow one to wholly define the ambiguous a...
incorporated into this study is extensive. The research team breaks this discussion into three subheadings: Assessment Congruence ...
Surveys suggest there are more asthma patients with uncontrolled asthma than patients themselves think. The Asthma and Allergy Fou...
problems?] The pharmacology interventions target the patients different health conditions, such as high blood pressure and high c...
for its lack of market-changing competition (Porter and Teisberg, 2004), but competition exists nonetheless, if only indirectly. ...
In two pages this paper discusses how nurses can deal with the stress of their jobs with a 'hardy' personality as described in thi...
Culturally competent care appropriate for a psychiatric hospital is considered a basic and primary component of nursing given the ...
This paper is basically about nurse leadership. A scenario was presented in which a nurse director needed to present a new annual ...
to nursing practice in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), as the welfare of each high-needs baby is intrinsically tied to fami...
that they are often asked to take care of more patients with higher acuity levels than they have in the past (Hassmiller and Cozin...