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Palliative Care and the Theory of Dorothea Orem

patient to re-establish the self-care capacity. Orems model defines a "self-care deficit" as when a patients condition interferes ...

Katrina, Rita, and FEMA's Response in 2005

funds many short-term solutions a. Provides grants for needs such as truck rental for those who cannot pay for it. b. Directs thos...

Major Indicators of Performance and Call Centers

attitude, recourse is immediate by simply hanging up and calling another company. Call centers cannot afford to lose potential cl...

Study Objectives and Health Care Assessments

important to understanding the impact of interventions. One of the major problems noted by a number of theorists is that the exte...

Overview of Critical Care Nurse Practitioner

a specialized body of knowledge, skills and experience that enables these nurses to offer a high standard of care to critically il...

Dorothea Orem and Florence Nightingale on Nursing Theories, Beliefs, and Values

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

Multivictim Situations and an Intervention Study

programs have changed in recent years and whether important events, including the events surrounding the September 11 bombing of t...

January 2000 Alaska Airlines Flight 261 Crash

the planes horizontal stabilizer trim shortly before the crash and had been diverted to from its initial destination of San Franci...

Psychiatric Nursing Alternatives

they visited, and some tended to visit fairly frequently (Demling et al, 2002). Patients in general were very positive about thei...

An Overview of FEMA

1959). The total destruction left in the wake of Hurricane Andrew, considered to be historys worst in terms of death and damage, ...

Kolcaba and Holistic Care

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

Regulatory Agencies for Managed Care

In most states, regulations concerning private managed care companies and programs are put forth primarily by the states insurance...

ER Personnel and Problems of Violence

of the ED staff members had been threatened by a weapon; 55 hospitals (43%) reported that a physical attack on a staff member occu...

Critical Modality of Humor

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

Has Health Care Been Improved by Managed Care?

receiving additional income for having patients who use less services. As Stone (1997) indicates, she received a healthy bonus che...

Security Training Program

Great Healthcare Medical Center will be trained in all aspects of every security need of the hospital. This will focus on physica...

Nursing & Spiritual Care

much broader in its application. It is this broadness that allows nurses to reach across religious lines and distinctions. In a su...

Legal Aspects of Home Day Care

It is left to regulatory agencies such as the DFPS to interpret the law, write regulations that are in accordance with the law and...

The Interprofessional Approach to Nursing

records and kept him and his family informed about his progress to date and what he could expect along the path to recovery. Nurs...

Care Partners/RNs & PCTs

the supply by 2010 (Kleinman and Saccomano, 2006). Traditional nursing care models, such as primary nursing, are founded on the su...

Resource Dependency Theory, Contingency Theory and Core Technology

over a great deal with social exchange theory and the study of politics in the workplace (Huczyniski and Buchanan, 2003). The use ...

Medicare and the Elderly

can no longer follow this model is because medical technology can now greatly prolong life-perhaps make it too long. People now ro...

Nursing Home Care and the Effects of Mandatory Continuation of Nursing Education

nursing care over the past decade and how do they support the argument for a continuum of educational practices for nursing profes...

Social Systems Theory and Foster Care

physical and social limits, functional components, and feedback mechanisms" (Reicherter and Billek-Sawhney, 2003). With regard t...

Health Care and Material Management

would have no need for surgical gloves, but a hospital or a stand-alone outpatient surgery clinic has need for both. A mate...

A Case Study of the Use of Collaborative Processes for a Woman with Multiple Comorbidities

points out that patients with comorbidities have additional needs that serve to increase the complexity of care. Various models of...

Quality Assurance and Nursing Management

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

Survival of Managed Care

twentieth century, with accusations that it has failed to live up to the demands placed upon it by the ever-growing population, ef...

A Historical Analysis of EMTALA

some schools do not receive funding if they hold religious classes for example or do not abide by affirmative action. Similarly, E...

A Critique of Two Ariticles Pertaining to Cardiac Step Down Units

it is discovered that her death was called by a massive pulmonary embolism. Two years later, her husband files suit against the n...