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Geriatric Care Quality

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

Correcting Flawed Surgery Sites and Wrong Site Amputations

hospitals are not required to report mistakes that have been made to any sort of overseeing agency (Inskeep and Neighmond, 2004). ...

Reviews of 8 Diabetes Education Articles

only one group, no control group. Group exposed to treatment and then measure (Creswell, 2003). Measured participants blood gluco...

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 ...

Program Proposal for Diabetes Education

proposed method of resolution is to design, develop and evaluate a clinical, evidence-based "diabetic education program to increas...

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...

Reaction to Conversation Language And Possibilities A Postmodern Approach To Therapy by Harlene Andersen

followers must abide by the same doctrines. Post-modernisms discursive system was a reaction to and critique of modernism, with p...

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...

CPAP, BiPAP: Annotated Bibliography

This paper offers an annotated bibliography which consists of research articles that pertain to CPAP and BiPAP therapies, which ar...

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....

Traditional Organizational Design

This essay discusses different issues that center on the traditional organizational structure design. Issues include: patient-cent...

Comprehensive Physical Examination

This research paper provides the details of a health history interview and physical examination conducted for a hypothetical patie...

Hospital Technology

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

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...

Treatment and Jehovah's Witnesses, An Ethical Dilemma

This paper pertains to an ethical dilemma faced by hospital nurses caring for patients who are Jehovah's Witnesses. Adherent of th...

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 ...

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...

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 & ED Overcrowding

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

Implementing Electronic Health Records in the US

In the US there is a requirement for healthcare organizations to use electronic health records (HER), also known as electronic pat...

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...

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...

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...

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, ...

Patient Education and Compliance: Review of the Literature and Proposal for Black Male Diabetics Ages 40 through 60

Study participants ranged from 20 to 79 years and noted that the mere exchange of information is not enough to accomplish the desi...

Basic Rights in Health Care

are told what they should do by their physicians. For example, if a patient visits a doctor and due to age parameters, he or she w...