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Women, Literacy and Health Care Critique of “A Winning Combination: Women, Literacy and Participation in Health Care”

by practicing nurses in this area. Both of the authors also hold advanced degrees: one holds a Masters degree and teaches at a co...

Literature Review of Incidences of Septic Shock and Sepsis in ICU Patients

result in septic shock. Of that 200,000, approximately half result in death due to the onset of sepsis and the subsequent septic ...

Practical Nursing Theory Application

care model is highly useful with the elderly and those recovering from surgery or illness. Self care is not an issue that enters ...

Senior Citizen Mental Illness Workplace Management and Prevention of Violence

to nonadherence to medication in the mentally ill elderly is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connot...

Terminally Ill Patients and Palliative Care

"many emotional, medical, and practical needs. These needs change over time, depending on the trajectory of...

Patient Scenario on Stroke Examination

affect patient outcomes (Finley, 2004). The degree to which Mr. Smith will be affected by the stroke, and, indeed, his very survi...

Rehabilitation and Acute Stroke Units

ensuring that a significant proportion of stroke victims survive and retain their independence. This is important not only from th...

Hispanics and Diabetes Management

Have you had any experience in helping a friend or family member manage diabetes? The patient replied that she was not aware of...

Nursing Knowledge: Development And Utilization

have otherwise been a lingering existence in private homes or disreputable hospitals. Inasmuch as the nurse is "temporarily the c...

Ethical Issues in Mental Health Care Practice

This research team selected homeless adolescents as the focus for their study. While, in general, the concept that informed parent...

Impact of Managed Care

that the government did not intend when establishing Medicare in the 1960s. At present, Medicare virtually rules all of Ame...

Persistent Vegetative State Patients and Ethical Decision Making

the balloon, and certain gestures, were definite responses to the environment and evidence of consciousness, but the doctors disag...

Teenagers and Pallative Care

have changed considerably over the last century. This change is associated with a number of factors, the most prominent being our...

Advanced Nursing Practice Philosophy

therapeutic manner (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003). This relationship may refer to a single individual, or the "person" may be a sma...

The Nursing Issue of Drug and Alcohol Abuse among Nurses

results from alcohol or drug misuse and which interferes with professional judgment and the delivery of safe, high quality care" (...

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...

Various Types of Nursing Roles

implementing the treatment regimen. 5. collaborating with other health care providers in determining the appropriate health care f...

Native Medical System of Iran

help have as great an expanse of knowledge as is possible. This will also help the Iranian doctors to "find work in the private s...

3 Specialties in Advanced Nursing Practice

an advanced practice nurse. The benefits that a nurse midwife can bring to a first-time mother include information that the mothe...

Mentally Ill Individuals and Medical Insurance

illnesses, for example, often encounters problems in convincing their insurance provider to provide the appropriate reimbursement ...

Quality of Life, Nursing, and Concept Analysis

of happiness, contentment or relief, or something above ordinary existence. The patient should do more than subsist. 4. Care shoul...

Ethical Considerations Regarding Terminal Illness and Palliative Care

one, we become constantly reacquainted with the subject. The way that we deal with death varies on both an individual and a colle...

HIV and AIDS Survey Protocols

Over twice as many people have been infected with HIV than was initially projected; over 42 million people have been infected sinc...

Health Care and Paternalism vs. Autonomy

can be tricky. There are always hypochondriacs or the medically educated who do not necessarily agree with the doctors findings. P...

Overview of Chicago's Edward J. Hines Jr. Hospital

a reputation for efficiency and effectiveness, as well see later on in this paper. The hospital was named in honor of Edwa...

Managed Care and Disabilities Models of Medi Cal

have different health care needs than their non-disabled counterparts (Donegan Shoaf, 1999). Medi-Cal is one such health c...

Health Care System Negligence

sense that it is actively intended to cause harm, but negligence occurs when it is established that any reasonable person would ha...

Review of an Article on Nursing Research

to examine whether womens social roles mediate the impact of heart surgery on their psychological well-being" (Plach and Heidrich,...

Infectious Disease Control and Precautions That Are Standard Based

are theoretically viable, but there is actually no evidence to support the claim that UPs will actually reduce the number of expos...

Increased Quality While Decreasing Costs in Nursing

in higher costs and reduced perceived quality of care. Hypotheses The purpose of the proposed study is to determine the eff...