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Quality Improvement in Health Care

than nurses, executives and managers at those hospitals. St. Lukes Medical Center St. Lukes is a 154-bed hospital located in S...

Research on Polypharmacy and Elderly

with chronic conditions to live longer, despite the presence of these conditions. However, the pharmaceutical innovations that mak...

Treatment and Outcomes for Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma

using CHOP alone. This study involved 399 patients who were 60 years of age and older in the advanced stages of NHL ("Adult NHL,"...

Diabetic Ketoacidosis, A Case Study

serious, potentially fatal, but preventable, complication of diabetes mellitus that occurs when there is insufficient insulin to m...

Dyspnea, Family Caregiving and Quality of Life

primary symptoms of COPD are "wheezing, cough, dyspnea on exertion and increased phlegm production" (Touhy and Jett, 2012, p. 289)...

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...

Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: The Legal and Ethical Dimensions

or another, enter into ethical quandaries as a result of their regular operations. This is because virtually all organizational ac...

Patient Privacy and Health Care Ethics - An Organizational Study

Florida cancer center, one can successfully examine how organizational structure and governance, as well as an organizations cultu...

HEALTH CARE AND LEGISLATION

newspapers and magazines understands that the "Big Kahuna" of health care regulations involves the Patient Protection and Affordab...

Best Practices and Satisfaction in Health Care

many professionals feel is attached to a strong desire to do the right thing. When organizations are engaging in unethical practic...

21st Century Public Safety Concerns

deterred individuals from making the "rational choice" to stop treatment (Sung & Richter, 2007). Research Study Comparison Des...

Euthanasia Should be Patient Determined

The concept of euthanasia, prematurely ending anothers life or choosing to end ones own life in the name of compassion seems to...

Using Evidence Based Practice to Explore the Effectiveness of Constraint Induced Language Therapy

non-intense application produces better results, while others claim that intensity is the key to results. This paper will explore ...

The Thao Case/Medication Error

prohibited from working over 12 hours in a 24-hour period or more than 60 hours per week for 2 years ("Criminal case," 2007). Th...

Contesting a Will on Grounds of Mental Capacity

the family home, where Jill still resided, $150,000 in bank deposits as well as some antiques and personal chattels to her grandch...

Case Study/COPD

not fully reversible, is treatable. This term describes a progressive airflow limitation that typically caused by an inflammatory ...

Application Of Watson’s Care Model in the Clinical Setting

well with Watsons care model. Watson has seven assumptions, the first is that care is demonstrated in an interpersonal level (Geor...

The Impacts of the Level of Nursing Education on Patient Reported Outcomes

of the hospital nursing staff could be nurses with a bachelors degree or higher and that this can have an impact on patient outcom...

ETHICS, BUSINESS AND LEGALITIES IN A CANCER CENTER

specialists when necessary and requires continuity of care protections to patients so they dont have to change health care provide...

Changing the Views on Mental Health Care

is dedicated to the memory of Linda Anderson, research writer, mother and friend....

Speech and Language: Working with At-Risk Patients

experiences (Chapter 2). Behaviorists like B.F. Skinner further developed the concept of conditioning in what Skinner deemed oper...

A Psychology Case Study

Disorder 300.3 Axis II: Schizoid Personality Disorder 301.20 Axis III: Abuse of caffeine. Axis IV: Stressors related to compl...

Violence at Work: A Problem for Nurses

In a paper of six pages, the author writes about research on the problem of workplace violence against nurses. The studies used i...

Patient Education and HPV

and they fear that it will lead to indulgence in risky sexual behaviors. Furthermore, lack of education or understanding of HPV an...

Ethical Concerns of Counselors

and his parents "Jessica" and his stepfather, "Peter." The entire family came to John seeking support for the declining condition...

The Medical Environment and Entrepreneurship

who perofmed the first heart transplant and Patrick Steptoe who was responsible for the first test tube baby. These are m...

Logotherapy and Narrative Therapy: Two Different Methods

the arsenal of the therapist. It has been an effective tool for getting to the bottom of the emotional and spiritual malaise so p...

Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice

get abortions (National Abortion Federation, 2010). This means that women could see certified physicians instead of finding quacks...

Aiding Patients with Chronic Conditions, A Reflection

support of a nurse that can keep these patients inspired to continue the positive health behaviors that ensure their continued goo...

Implementing Patient to Nurse Ratios in the Healthcare Environment

was a patient protection initiative which incorporated a requirement for there to be set nasty patient ratios in healthcare system...