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Changing the Views on Mental Health Care

is dedicated to the memory of Linda Anderson, research writer, mother and friend....

A Study of Methods to Prevent Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections

reducing the prevalence of CAUTIs. Research Support A range of supportive research will be utilized to develop the evidence...

Healthcare in America

Anderson and Squires (2010) maintained that the life expectancy at birth in this country is 77.8 years, placing it at the bottom q...

An Abstract for a Study on CAUTI in Acute Care

essential to reducing the prevalence of CAUTIs. Research Support A range of supportive research will be utilized to develop...

The Florida Foster Care System

complex and emotionally charged nature events that often place young children into foster care, as system in place to do the busin...

The Issue of Unresponsiveness of Physicians in the Hospital Setting

In a paper of four pages, the writer considers the issue of the unresponsive patient, especially as it impacts patient care. This...

Long-Term Care and the Need for Positive Leadership

Research in the area of nursing management often considers the characteristics of leaders and the impacts for specific outcomes in...

The Availability of Acute Care in Foreign Countries

of the largest acute care facilities sees a Serbian facility with 3,500 beds at the top of the list ("Europes 10 Largest Acute Car...

Pneumonia Care. Article Review

points: In this informative article, Holcomb begins by first differentiating between hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP), which is p...

A STRATEGIC OVERVIEW OF INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE

Natives (Indian Health Services, 2012). The HIS is the principal federal health care provider and advocate for American Indians, a...

Texting from a Symbolic Interactionist Perspective

This is particularly true when it comes to secrets or complaints. Someone may complain about their boss in a text but accidentally...

TB Still Claims Millions of Lives

are 53,000 new TB cases in the country each year and about 10,000 die from this disease (UNAMA, 2012). That is a rate of about 38 ...

Diabetic Ketoacidosis, A Case Study

among the classic symptoms of diabetic ketoacidosis. The pathophysiology of these symptoms results from the buildup in ketones due...

Health Care Industry - Assessing Different Financial Environments

in the western United States (Cleverley, Cleverley, & Song, 2012). Such institutions are typified by the primary goal of "sharehol...

Financial Environments in the Health Care Industry

Hospital, a "450 bed not for profit acute care hospital" (Gapenski, 2007). Lastly, of course, because much health care access in...

QI Questions

for example the use of different Total Quality Management (TQM) tools (Mintzberg et al, 2008). The use of performance measurement ...

Opportunities for Health Care Entrepreneurs

led to most nurses being dissatisfied with the reality of working in conditions that threaten the safety of patients, and the qual...

Tools to aid with Quality Implementations in a Home Care Agency to Help Reduce Fall Incident Rates

populations in other settings (Gray-Miceli, 2007). The aim of this risk model is to identify adults which are most likely to be at...

STD Services and Epidemiology

to social behaviors; therefore, this area of research is associated with social epidemiology, which indicates the socioeconomic fa...

Panic Attacks, Haitian American Immigrant

therapy (Scheinbaum, 2012). Despite the considerable numbers of Haitian immigrants living in the US, which increased following t...

Family and Nursing Practice, Dialysis Unit

that the concept of family that is most helpful to nursing practice is one that considers not only members of the immediate nuclea...

Cost of ED Care Services

forces," but rather drive from the "whim of the C.F.O. of the hospital" (Bernard B.1). The article goes on to explain that certain...

History of Minimum Wage, Supreme Court to Rule on ACA

in the current minimum wage of $7.25, which became effective on July 24, 2009 (WHD, 2011). This history is also characterized by t...

Effects of New Health Reform Policy

income (Douglas & Burke, 2010; Kaiser Family Foundation, 2011). Medicare taxes on net investment income will also increase from 0....

Primary Prevention in Diabetic Care

can be easily determined via the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) and by testing fasting plasma glucose (FPG), as these tests ar...

Ethical Dilemma with a Newborn

insist that full intervention for their baby should continue. The Ethics Committee is consulted, informed about the case, and they...

Hospital Administrator

to gain an executive position immediately upon graduation, possibly in a specialty area such as government relations, medical staf...

An American View of Dying and Death

that many adults have to being placed in nursing care (Ciechanowski et al, 2004). The degree of social isolation along with depen...

Changing Social Views on Dying and Death

of death often occurs without the presence of loved ones and in the absence of any great fanfare. While some cultures create an e...

Obamas Views on Immigration

Obamas 2012 State of the Union Address portrays the view that the nation is much better than it was before Obama took office. Thi...