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ICU Delirium

hospital stays (Cole and Soucy, 2003). While all ICU patients have serious and potentially life-threatening conditions, those ov...

Real-Time Information in the Hospital Setting

real-time applications, patient records are updated instantly as information is added to them. Thus the physician making rounds h...

Hospital Information Systems

interfaces with the a new computerized patient order entry system. Therapists use tablets at the patient bedside, which enhances m...

Low Context Culture And High Context Culture In Business

culture has a direct impact on communication, both verbal and non-verbal (College of Business Administration, 2005). Researchers h...

Wit & Palliative Care

also a former student of Vivians is now in the rather awkward position of also being one of her doctors, as he is an intern and re...

Hospital Database Use

In addition to these operational benefits, the state in which databases exist today enable organizations to use the data contained...

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...

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...

Article Summary on High Blood Pressure

differences between these two classifications are then described and three factors that are believe to influence the formation of ...

Concepts of Self Care

to the wide-ranging aspect of nursing than merely administering medicine; in fact, the myriad components that ultimately comprise ...

Terminally Ill Patients and Nursing Care

the needs of the dying and her work indicates that there are times when the most meaningful communication that a nurse can offer i...

Colostomy Teaching

of materials for aiding with this preparation and it is recommended that the child should practice wearing a stoma bag, which aids...

Article Critique/Perceptions of Palliative Care

(in English) between the years 1989 and 2004. The extent of the literature review appears to be sufficient to support the research...

Article Critique/Awareness of Impending Death

of dying and that some of this research indicated significant differences in this awareness. This leads into a discussion of what ...

Nursing at the End of Life

by the caring physical presence of this nurse in her last remaining hours. However, the way in which this case turned out saw the ...

Rapid Response Team: Quick Recognition And Intervention Of Problems At Va Medical Centers

being more capable of acting proactively and preventively. The philosophy of nursing is something much grander and more complex t...

Balance of Philosophy and Nursing Values

not money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely woul...

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 ...

Community and Patient Nursing Care and Meningococcal Meningitis

the disease as well as around the prevention of the spread of the causative organism to other individuals that come into contact w...

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...

Human Becoming Nursing Theory of Parse

moment to moment as the changing patterns of shifting perspectives weave the fabric of life through the human-universe interconnec...

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...

Geriatric Care Quality

balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...

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 ...

Hospital Technology

The purpose of technology in hospitals is to increase efficiency and accuracy of their healthcare systems and to improve patient c...

Older Adult Emergency Department Care

This paper pertains to the care of elderly patients in emergency departments (EDs). Three pages in length, four sources are cited....

Overview Major Health Organization

This paper discusses a major health care organization and its diversity. Several topics are discussed: data regarding diversity, m...

Assisting Bedridden Elderly Patients: An Ergonomic Concern

This paper is on a primary care provider's concerns regarding the risk to a client's health and safety due to having to lift heavy...