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A Lesson Plan For Diabetes Education

routine activities necessary to their own care. The purpose is that with a nurses direction, encouragement and initial supervisio...

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 ...

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...

Nursing & ED Overcrowding

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

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...

Health Care Communication

patient (Seidel, 2004). This author also states that effective communication is something that can and must be learned (Seidel, 2...

Period and its Impact on the Incidence of Deep Wound Infection in Diabetic Individuals Undergoing Open Heart Surgery

Researchers have identified nutrition as a significant factor in wound healing. In fact, it has been argued that nutritional elem...

Diabetes in Adolescence

between cases at the time of diagnosis (Newmark and Anhalt, 2007). Type 1 diabetes is typically due to a "lack of insulin producti...

The Importance of Hope in Palliative Care

are fatigued often have trouble dealing successfully with their illness. In this article Benzein and Berg note that "Hope, hopeles...

Confidentiality/ANA Ethics & New York State Law

This ANA Code also specifically includes the possibility that "inappropriate disclosure" can occur by using "identifiable patient ...

Girl, Interrupted And Borderline Personality

the DSM IV-TR (Therapydoc, 2007). The next one is due sometimes in 2012 (Therapydoc, 2007). It will no doubt change etiologies, di...

A Child’s Voice/Holistic Perspective

and the spirit says, "Ahhh, everything feels much better now" (Wooten, 2005, p. 510). Another factor in her relationships with c...

Quality of Life with AIDS

system, decreasing the natural defenses that allow the body to fight off infections and diseases (Etiology, 2008). As this suggest...

Hip Fracture and Stress

Plus Program, that was implemented in the study performed by Resnick and colleagues was found, among other benefits, to improve af...

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...

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...

CC vs. Med-Surg Units/Job Satisfaction

(Domrose, 2001). However, current trends have developed that have greatly expanded the scope of med-surg nursing, which includes a...

"My Own Country: A Doctor's Story"

system (Verghese). "It was clear, though no one had yet seen a case, that he was Johnson Citys first case of the acquired immune d...

Prospective Payment Systems

(Moore, 2006, p. 10). The result is that this practice is losing so much money on Medicaid patients that they are beginning to res...

Rogerian Therapy For HIV Positive Clients

as the patient is the rogerian approach. This can be combined with different approaches to public health, such as the biomedical m...

Poets Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, and Nature

the spider and it is true for man as well. Obviously, he doesnt actually say this specifically but he instead illustrates it thro...

Diabetes Education Expanded Lesson Plan

environment. That open system "interacts with internal and external stressors and is in a state of constant change, moving toward...

Instructional Approaches Assessed

must have at least some knowledge of the topic of discussion beforehand, or the discussion can disintegrate into an exercise in "p...

Comparative Analysis of Erickson's and Orem's Theories

and patient. Orems theory is central to much of nursing philosophy and methodology. This theory is one of three theories...

Controlling Costs and HMOs

a total of more than $4,000 for every citizen of the country (Grumbach and Bodenheimer, 1994). Plagued by overspending for years,...

The Parish Nurse and Advanced Practice Nursing

issues of spirituality. In essence, the parish nurse has the ability to treat the whole patient, rather than only addressing symp...

Arguing in Favor of Self Directed Euthanasia

criteria in an advanced directive or the individuals cognizance at the time of their decision. The first task that presents...

Conceptual, Philosophical, Legal And Ethical Foundations And Processes Inherent To Professional Nursing Practice

there a time when an individuals interests supersede those of the masses? These are ethical questions posed each and everyday thr...

Nursing; Engaging, Development and Disengaging From a Therapeutic Relationship

of chemicals in the brain that result or enhance depressive conditions. For some patients this treatment is not always effective, ...

Deep Brain Stimulation For Parkinson's And Dystonia

movement disorders, such as Parkinsons and dystonia. This procedure was initially developed in 1987 in France (Song, 2006). This a...