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This paper pertains to an ethical dilemma faced by hospital nurses caring for patients who are Jehovah's Witnesses. Adherent of th...
The purpose of technology in hospitals is to increase efficiency and accuracy of their healthcare systems and to improve patient c...
This paper pertains to the care of elderly patients in emergency departments (EDs). Three pages in length, four sources are cited....
This paper discusses a major health care organization and its diversity. Several topics are discussed: data regarding diversity, m...
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...
illnesses, for example, often encounters problems in convincing their insurance provider to provide the appropriate reimbursement ...
In five pages this paper discusses New York's health care proxy regarding the wishes of incompetent patients passed in light of t...
In six pages this paper considers studies that explore the link between patient care quality and nurse staffing. Five sources are...
patient care" (p. 438). Prior to 1970, nursing training in the UK could be described as rigid and highly structured. After...
as HMO, PPO, POS, EPO, PHO, IDS and AHP (IHA, 2002). This is creating a service that can be seen as dividing...
to the CEOs statement, the difficulties which the hospital is experiencing can be divided into two main but overlapping categories...
and sustaining without yielding, they contend that bearing is a reaction which is more passive than coping but an activity which p...
can be tricky. There are always hypochondriacs or the medically educated who do not necessarily agree with the doctors findings. P...
a reputation for efficiency and effectiveness, as well see later on in this paper. The hospital was named in honor of Edwa...
in which nurses had to request perceptions for certain types of dressing was a waste of time and resources, which in turn impacted...
have different health care needs than their non-disabled counterparts (Donegan Shoaf, 1999). Medi-Cal is one such health c...
* Time over Money - Employees today seek more personal time versus financial compensation. * Professional versus Personal Role - ...
and two other men beside her patient, she becomes drawn to the patient, though not in a romantic way. She devotes nearly her entir...
there was a problem of infections in long-term care facilities and in hospitals (Dimond, 1994). These are called nosocomial infect...
not want his father informed), presenting a rationale for signing a health care proxy becomes extremely problematic. Guidelines us...
caused by the illnesses the may then have a negative physiological backlash on the patient. For other condition it may be the ro...
is wheelchair bound, but nevertheless cooks for herself and shops for herself in a nearby grocery store, using her motorized wheel...
Over twice as many people have been infected with HIV than was initially projected; over 42 million people have been infected sinc...
well. This study also appears to be sound scientifically. Its primary means of data analysis is statistical; the methods b...
of the patients in a single unit will be assigned to one RN; the other half will be assigned to another. Another will be availabl...
diagnosing it. It is not as if depression is difficult to diagnose. What is difficult is getting clients into facilities and to ad...
are theoretically viable, but there is actually no evidence to support the claim that UPs will actually reduce the number of expos...
that make use of color, but even these efforts have not typically met with good response by patients or hospital administrators (S...
sense that it is actively intended to cause harm, but negligence occurs when it is established that any reasonable person would ha...
several years. Psychologically, it has been found that individuals more actively involved with their own health care often fare m...