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Essays 1681 - 1710
In 2001, health care spending as a percentage of GDP was 14.1 percent, or $5,035 per capita (Levit, Smith, Cowan, Lazenby, Senseni...
also a former student of Vivians is now in the rather awkward position of also being one of her doctors, as he is an intern and re...
be immensely helpful in gaining insight into the specific issues involved and subsequent perspective on what course of action to t...
are able to make error reports without fear of reprisal. Nevertheless, the consequence of possible disciplinary action and repris...
for patient survival" (Kelley, 2005, p. 2). When the blood volume in the body is too low, it activates "compensatory mechanisms" t...
the fever? Was it related to an infection in the surgical wound? Was the patient developing atelectasis and pneumonia? Or, was the...
more on intuition and to "a hidden knowledge that is not so open to cognitive description" (Bradshaw, 1995, p. 83). In other words...
many other disorders. Given the prevalence of both ADD/ADHD and Depression, this user linked to each of these disorders. The ADD/A...
hospitals. Under her wings, she took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to hea...
once again examines how nurses can be empowered, and learn those values in college. Finally, Ann Gallagher discusses dignity with ...
results are reliable and representative (Curwin and Slater, 1996). The first is the profiling of the samples to show that they are...
the effect of music on preoperative anxiety and postoperative pain with a participant group that listened to "peaceful pan flute m...
safeguard and monitor the public health, which means that it formulates prevention initiatives, investigates health problems and a...
meals to all Orthodox Jewish patients should be investigated by hospital administrators if they are not already in place. Furtherm...
diabetic education that uses the Neuman Systems Model, which supports and facilitates taking a "holistic view of people with diabe...
factors" (Hader and Guy, 2004, p. 21). The international Association for the Study of Pain and the American Pain Society define pa...
that I wanted to make a difference in peoples lives as well. But while my people skills are excellent and I am sure that I can e...
of this decision. Ecological theory is an attempt to bring in many different influences in order to understand how a society ...
As described by Araich (2001), four nursing strategies effectively summarize how a critical care nurse can use the RAM to aid a ca...
There are numerous nursing scholars who utilizing ethnographic techniques in their research; university courses that address both ...
to the medications needed to ensure their health. Beginning in 2004, Medicare began to offer aid, $600 a year, for covering the co...
Nursing (Webber, 2007). However, this is not a long-term solution. The long-term solution to achieving an adequate nursing force f...
events (Owen, 2007). This action includes "presentation of antigen by dendritic cells" as well as the "degranulation of mast cells...
arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways and all other products of human work and thought..." (Purnell, 2005, p. 7). It is the eth...
2004). As errors are inevitable, in order to significantly reduce the rate at which they occur, it is imperative that mistakes sho...
cardiac monitor, a seizure, drug reaction or other sign of a critical condition...(They) are expected to fill out reports" that we...
system," since the institution of mandated nursing ratios, and also that data shows California hospitals have not only been able t...
the prevalence of UI was high in this region of the country and particularly high among African Americans in two of the states, wh...
The reason is that the hospital has been unsuccessful in recruiting an adequate number of qualified nurses. Ultimately, the blame...
parents of children with cancer regarding the needs of siblings and on the support that was offered by hospital staff. The results...