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Nurse/Patient Ratios/Not One Size Fits All

assisting registered nurses (RNs) in order to meet legislated requirements (Schaefer 9). This means that while RNs have fewer pati...

Fluids & Congestive Heart Failure

able to monitor heat patients who are at-risk for fluid retention, healthcare providers anticipate that this device will enable th...

Developing Customer Services Measures for a Balanced Scorecard

and Smith, 2006). This in turn will create a relationship with the patient that facilities the achievement of these goals (Walshe ...

Nursing Leadership Attributes

secretary, should leave the ward when there were fewer than three children on the unit and work a second adult unit as well. He wa...

Have International Human Rights Really Changed Over the Last Sixty Years?

is a law that is more basic that that which is made by man, supports of this such as Aristotle and the stoics such as Cicero and S...

Bispectral Index (BIS) Monitor and its Application in Eliminating Postoperative Memory of Intraoperative Events

The intent of anesthesia, of course, is to pharmaceutically suppress the perception and thus the memory of the procedure. There h...

Doctor - Patient Confidentiality

Hippocratic oath extends not just to what a patient might tell a doctor but also to what a doctor concludes in regard to a patient...

Paternalism or Autonomy and the Hippocratic Oath

God" (Hippocratic Oath, 2001). It seems to me that the wording leads the young physician directly into the trap he hopes to avoid...

Restraint Uses in Psychiatric Nursing

Yet both organizations also observe that, sometimes, it is necessary to use seclusion and restraint, as a last resort, in order to...

Frequency of Hemodialysis

2% were on home hemodialysis (Freitas, 2002, 167). There are many chronic problems associated with hemodialysis including hyper...

Problem of Uninsured Patients and New York's Metropolitan Hospital Center Operations

respected academically and is in the business of training future health care providers as it serves the local community. All "att...

Uninsured Issues for Metropolitan Hospital Center of New York II

continues to battle against the ongoing nursing shortage. Today, the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that ...

Pressure Ulcers; Risk Management

In 1997 it is estimated the pressure ulcers cost the Australian healthcare system A$350 million and with patients that develop ulc...

Applying Virginia Henderson's Nursing Theory

patient, to occupy thoughts, behaviors and other patterns that provide specific indicators of how to approach healing. In this pa...

Environmental and Energy Tax Provisions

the fact that a "tax credit reduces tax dollar-for-dollar," while a deduction "only removes a percentage of the tax that is owed" ...

Addiction Transfer Disorder & Gastric Bypass Surgery

addicted to something else such as alcohol, gambling or compulsive shopping (Spencer, 2006). The realization that this is a proble...

Bipolar Disorder II And Substance Abuse

that may trigger a Bipolar incident, many of these also trigger using substances. Oliver (2007) identified twelve different "Trigg...

Should New Drugs Be Labelled As ‘New’ To Indicate A Higher Risk Than Established Dugs?

funds used to ensure drug safety focused in the approval of new drugs. After a drug is approved there are few quality reports unde...

Spiritual Nursing

information. These guidelines are also based on this researchers finding that self-care promotes the pediatric patients spiritual ...

OpEd: Right of Refusal

on some theological idea that only God can end life. We wouldnt allow a dog or cat to suffer; why then do we force humans to do so...

Ovulation Induction

in the study they had undergone three treatments using Clomiphene alone, with no results in relationship to a pregnancy (Ghafourza...

Substance Abuse And Dual Diagnosis

with mental illnesses may reach out to drugs or alcohol to ease the pain they are feeling. It becomes very difficult to separate t...

Skills Needed by a Forensic Nurse

McAndrew, 2006). With communication skills there are includes skills of listening as well as tact as essential to facilitate effec...

Nursing Case Mgmt./Asthma

this condition. If the student does not have asthma, the student may feel motivated to help this population because of he/she rea...

Nursing & ED Overcrowding

York found that, in the past, ambulance diversions were a seasonal event. However, more recent research finds that diversional sta...

Reducing Prejudice

contemporary forms of prejudice" (Dovidio et al, 1999, pp. 101-105). Intergroup contact as a method of reducing prejudice ...

Beehive Home Assisted Living Facility

care service has been the focus of greater scrutiny. Willging (2004) asks: "Just what is assisted living? There are still too ma...

A Proposed Study, Design, Sampling and Ethics in

This research paper presents an example paper pertaining to the way in which a proposed research study examining the effect of pat...

Business Plan for a Nursing Agency Providing In-Home Care

The writer presents a proposal to support a plan for setting up and running a nursing agency, providing nursing and other healthca...

A Plan for Reducing Catheter Related Infection

training. In addition, the class will also require the development and distribution of training materials, including a point-by-p...