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Overview of Pneumonia

or Aspergillus often come in contact with the patient through their inhalation of contaminated aerosols. We now know that an infe...

Quality Improvement in Health Care

than nurses, executives and managers at those hospitals. St. Lukes Medical Center St. Lukes is a 154-bed hospital located in S...

Mucor Infection, Pneumonia

This research paper presents information relevant to a patient for whom mucor infection has progressed to pneumonia. Lab results a...

Ethical Position Paper on Advance Directives, Ethical Decision-Making and Utilitarianism

wishes, she would remain on life support. This scenario has several ethical implications from the nursing or medical professional...

Relationship Between Patient Mechanical Ventilation and Oral Hygiene

billions in additional health care cost. Likewise, Houston, et al (2002) substantiate that contraction of nosocomial pneumonia co...

Heart Murmurs and Pneumonia

In five pages this paper examines what if any correlation exists between heart murmurs and pneumonia. Four sources are cited in t...

Causes of Viral Pneumonia and How It Can Be Prevented

Viral pneumonia is the focus of this paper consisting of seven pages which includes its causes, treatment, and how it can be preve...

An Article Review on Community Acquired Pneumonia

utilized 184 consecutive patients. All of the patients who were admitted were provided with informed consent. The researche...

Pneumonia Care. Article Review

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

UTIs Pressure Sores Pneumonia in the Elderly

higher risk for UTIs than others. Risks include older age, poor hygiene, and/or poor hydration. Two of the greatest risks can be p...

Quality Improvement Initiative and Pneumonia Vaccinations

effective in the frail elderly than in healthy, young adults (Ament, Fedson and Christie, 2001). As many as half of the elderly r...

Pneumonia and Tool for Data Collection

"yes" response to a question requiring clarification takes the user directly to the point where that clarification can be entered....

An Article on Pneumonia Prevention Critiqued

pneumonia is inherent to the research design. Therefore, the researchers begin their article with a summation of empirical evidenc...

Pneumonia and its Connection with the reuse of Suction Catheters in Children

controlled trials, systematic reviews, meta analyses, clearly defined hypothesis, and a definitive and strong conclusion. If one ...

Medical Evaluation Steps Regarding Coexisting Conditions and Chest Pain

professional must carefully evaluate this patient using all that is known about each of these conditions. Pain such as that being...

Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP)

factors that have been identified include "diabetes, alcoholism, malnutrition, history of antibiotic or corticosteroid use, decrea...

Summary of Zeitoun et al's Ventilator Associated Pneumonia Study

factor in regards to pulmonary infection. Reliability concerns The authors state that in their health center, nursing staff rece...

Statement of Purpose for Graduate Studies

after completing my education. Over the course of the last decade, the focus in colleges, universities and even human reso...

Reading Assessments

This model is more commonly used because it considers the complexity of learning process and the variation in factors that can inf...

Malaria

the liver of the individual where the the parasites will mature, then moving on to the red blood cells (Davis; Shiel, 2008). What ...

The Industrial Revolution

was far higher. As an example of some of these changes Rempel notes that "In 1784 a machine was patented which printed...

Malcolm X

was no realistic goal for a nigger, Malcolm lost interest in school" and thus dropped out of school (Estate of Malcolm X, 2008). I...

McKesson (An Overview)

also helps to prevent medication errors through other methods such as bar coding and scanning ("About Us," 2008). This is a firm t...

Islamic Religion

as he would receive the messages and the revelations he would record them and then teach these things to his followers (History of...

Bay of Pigs

Khrushchev, the Soviet premier. The plan anticipated that support from the Cuban people and perhaps even from elements of the Cuba...

OUTLINE FOR MALCOLM BALDRIDGE AWARD

the slower periods. Cyclical variations are also built into forecasts. Even within time forecasting, there are cycles....

Admissions Essay for Chiropractic School

well as from interventions. Chiropractic is a holistic approach, one that is based on the belief that while people may seek chiro...

Sonography

the manner in which individuals learn (Billings 104). Therefore, people born after World War II, the so-called "baby boomers," are...

Earthquakes

as the San Andreas Fault in California (Fryer, 2009). In some places, however, they move beneath one another and still yet there a...