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Health Care Staff Shortages

nurses by 2012 to eliminate the shortage (Rosseter, 2009). By 2020, the District of Columbia along with at least 44 states will ha...

Healthcare and the Dangers of Nosocomial Infections

services. However, the greatest cost of all has been to human life, because nosocomial infections have resulted in patient deaths...

The Need for Quicker Lab Results

whether or not a patient complaining of chest pains is having or has had a heart attack (American Clinical Laboratory Association,...

CULTURALLY COMPETENT CARE AND HOLY REDEEMER

culturally competent care. Well examine what the literature has to say about such standards and, with this background, and an unde...

Illness and Culture in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent by Julia Alvarez

differences between cultures consist of variation in their main pattern in terms of these five dimensions and that these differenc...

Article Analysis: The Effect of Uncertainty on Communication

Visiting Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Tulsa. Linda W. Cardillo is a doctoral student in the School of...

Article: The Effect of Uncertainty on Communication

Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Tulsa. Linda W. Cardillo is a doctoral student in the School of Journali...

Health Care Organizations :

is not an expectation based on fact or knowledge, it is based on hope. 2. Clinicians personal and professional values Personal ...

Hospital Administration Questions

at any given time. More than a decade ago, Bigelow and Arndt (1995) suspected value in TQM in the hospital setting but wrote, "Th...

Massage as a Complimentary Medicine

an overview of the issues that surround massage and the literature that support the fact that it is an effective approach in the t...

Bipolar Disorder

there is very little information about predisposes people to these episodes (Swann, 2006). Therefore, for the most part, nursing a...

Medical Issues in Euthanasia

the patient die (1975). Consider the case of a patient with terminal throat cancer, who is in terrible pain which cannot successfu...

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...

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...

Coronary Angiography

and Blood Institute, 2007). Zardi and colleagues (2008) referred to this procedure as the "gold standard" (p. 48) for assessing th...

Health Care Interdisciplinary Teams

patient, the attending nurse is seldom in the room at the same time. The attending physician may refer the patient to a cardiologi...

Putting Kolcaba's Theory of Comfort in Practice

a peaceful death among terminal patients. HSBs of specific groups of any size - whether large or small - are positively related t...

The Common Factors Approach to Psychotherapy

"encouragement of facing probl4ems/fears, support of efforts to master problems/ears, affective experiencing/catharsis" (Coady 15)...

Ethical Issue Of Confidentiality In School Counseling

there are those that are relevant to childrens protection as well, such as confidentiality. For example, during a recent visit tw...

Medicalization

points out, medicalization is a process that defines a problem in terms of the practitioners perspective and cultural biases, rath...

In Favor of Euthanasia

to base their arguments on more spiritual and ethereal ground, such as the idea that a persons life ends when God chooses to end i...

In Favor of the Right to Die

in place for some time, and none of the fears surrounding it have ever materialized (Seale, 2006). Research shows that 171 people ...

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...

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 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...

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 ...

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...

Concept Mapping Versus Care Plans/A Proposed Study

the fever? Was it related to an infection in the surgical wound? Was the patient developing atelectasis and pneumonia? Or, was the...

Pornography: Affect On Behavior And Potential For Mental Physical Harm

pornography and childrens ability to access it how many times these sites are reached purely by accident. A child in search of th...

Implementing Care Following Leininger’s Theory

meals to all Orthodox Jewish patients should be investigated by hospital administrators if they are not already in place. Furtherm...