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Energy Crisis

send oil prices soaring to unprecedented levels" (Leeb and Strathy, 2006, p. 19). The end results may well be the end of civiliza...

Collective School Perspective

at the past and the philosophies that have created the present. Resnick and Hall (1998) point out that the current educational s...

An Abstract & Various Assessment Instruments

testing instrument in the United States (Nurse and Sperry, 2004). First developed by Starke Hathaway and Charnley McKinley in 194...

Long Term Care/Medicare Reform

majority, if not all, Medicare part D plans will offer incentives for participants to choose generic drugs. It is believed that "g...

Leininger's Culture Care Nursing Theory

caring; 2. every human culture has lay (generic, folk or indigenous) care knowledge and practices and usually some professional ca...

Vets with PTSD

with sudden flashbacks intruding on thoughts (Fagan and Freme, 2004). Other symptoms include: an exaggerated startle reflex, sleep...

Parental Involvement in Caring for Hospitalized Children

a transition where parental involvement in hospitalization has changed. In the past, parents had been expected to leave the hospi...

Healthcare Profile of London SW3

areas will have different needs, this will be indicated by a number of factors, the area itself and the features as well as the ch...

Case Management and Managed Care

the caregiver needs other information, information that is clinical "for patients or covered members from all segments of integrat...

End Of Life Care And The Importance Of Advance Directives

is why it is sometimes difficult to understand the humane element of living wills and DNRs. Until one has been in the place of an...

Hospital Standard Care and Manual Handling Policy

long been an integral component to the standard of care provided at hospitals, nursing homes, home care and other situations where...

Foster Care Placements Research Study Analysis

The authors state that for children who are in foster care, it is well-known that there are certain factors which contribute to pl...

Urban Children and Asthma Care Barriers

In five pages an article is summarized and discussed in terms of knowledge contained within within the perspective of personal nur...

Human Based Services Delivery

In eight pages the delivery of human care services are examined in terms of decision making, organizational structures, resource a...

Children and Social Attachment Issues

as a baby," (Harmon, 7, 2001), which should serve to remind us that "infants and toddlers are part of relationships and that to un...

Nursing and Self Care Wound Instruction

In six pages this tutorial presents information on how to create a nursing instruction plan for how wounds can be self treated. F...

Patient Care Quality and Nurse Staffing

In six pages this paper considers studies that explore the link between patient care quality and nurse staffing. Five sources are...

Acute versus Long Term Care and Medical Records

In six pages this paper discusses acute and long term medical records' documentation in terms of differences regarding inclusion. ...

Nursing's Philosophy of Caring

In five pages this paper discusses contemporary nursing and the caring philosophy's role. Seven sources are listed in the bibliog...

Maternal Care and Psychological Problems

This paper examines how detrimental experiences during childhood can impact upon the care of mothers in later years in five pages....

Hospitality and Customer Care

cases when staying at a hotel or motel, it will be the front desk that the customer will call when a problem or need arises. How ...

Caring Theory, a Critique

nurse-patient relationship, the nurse gives without the expectation of reciprocation (1991). Thus, a patient need not return the f...

ER Application of the Self Care Deficit Theory Developed by Dorothea Orem

Emergency rooms are, at least in many cases, the primary health care provider to the underinsured and uninsured patient (Isenstein...

Peripheral Blood Vessels and the Effects of Diabetes

or where the body produces insulin, but for some reason the insulin does not do as it was intended, meaning the body can not metab...

Pain Management and Long Term Care Residents' Rights

old signs of questionable care still apply, however. Unexplained injury or falls, the occurrence of pressure sores, and evidence ...

Hospital Organization Case Study

to the CEOs statement, the difficulties which the hospital is experiencing can be divided into two main but overlapping categories...

Nursing in Great Britain, Clinical Supervision

patient care" (p. 438). Prior to 1970, nursing training in the UK could be described as rigid and highly structured. After...

President Bill Clinton's Long Term Security Care Act Tutorial Essay

example: The Long Term Care Security Act was signed into law by President Bill Clinton in order to help provide more affordable, h...

Nurses, Patients, and Managed Care

as HMO, PPO, POS, EPO, PHO, IDS and AHP (IHA, 2002). This is creating a service that can be seen as dividing...

Student Training and Outlook in Pediatric Nursing

The job prospects for pediatric nurses show all the signs of significant growth over the next ten years, with an expected faster g...