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Article Critique/Awareness of Impending Death

of dying and that some of this research indicated significant differences in this awareness. This leads into a discussion of what ...

Article Critique/Cancer Patient Distress

Literature Review As the above summation indicates, the researchers provide a logical and persuasive argument for their selection...

Impact Of Chronic Illness On The Elderly And Families

medications or they could be a sign of depression (Turner and Kelly, 2000). Turner and Kelly (2000) state strongly that it is e...

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...

Nursing Case Mgmt./Asthma

this condition. If the student does not have asthma, the student may feel motivated to help this population because of he/she rea...

Pathologic Gambling In Parkinson's Disease Patients Using Dopamine Agonist

which dopamine agonists and levodopa therapy works synergistically to provide physical benefits is both grand and far-reaching; 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 ...

Nurse/Patient Ratios/Not One Size Fits All

assisting registered nurses (RNs) in order to meet legislated requirements (Schaefer 9). This means that while RNs have fewer pati...

Teaching Patients How to Use the Internet

look for the date that the page was last updated to ensure that the latest health information on that subject is offered. The last...

Dehydration & Older Patient

dehydrated? Has literature simply made you aware of this potential problem? You might say something like: "Considering the dire co...

Intravenous Feedings Supporting Argumentative Essay

considered normal care that every human being deserves (Nutrition and Hydration: Moral and Pastoral Reflections 387). Intravenous...

Review of "Outcomes of Therapeutic Massage for Hospitalized Cancer Patients"

Smith, et al. (2002) explain that their purpose "was to investigate the effects of therapeutic massage on selected outcomes relate...

A Historical Analysis of EMTALA

some schools do not receive funding if they hold religious classes for example or do not abide by affirmative action. Similarly, E...

Models of Instruction for Educating Patients

of media in group instruction (Mensing and Norris, 2003). When people can share how they handle actual effects of an illness, ever...

Quality Assurance and Nursing Management

In five pages this research paper discusses quality care standard maintenance and the role played by nurse managers in sustaining ...

Real-Time Information in the Hospital Setting

real-time applications, patient records are updated instantly as information is added to them. Thus the physician making rounds h...

Hospital Information Systems

interfaces with the a new computerized patient order entry system. Therapists use tablets at the patient bedside, which enhances m...

Care Partners/RNs & PCTs

the supply by 2010 (Kleinman and Saccomano, 2006). Traditional nursing care models, such as primary nursing, are founded on the su...

Hospital Information Systems: Identifying Pathways

to transfer data recorded by the monitors by telephone to the clinic. Nurses orchestrate this data transfer and conduct an initia...

Mentally Ill Elderly/Syphilis Screening

A 5 page research paper that offers a summary of evidence relating STD incidence in older populations and how whether nor this con...

Wit & Palliative Care

also a former student of Vivians is now in the rather awkward position of also being one of her doctors, as he is an intern and re...

Hospital Database Use

In addition to these operational benefits, the state in which databases exist today enable organizations to use the data contained...

Increasing the Quality of Care in Nursing

This 16 page paper outlines the elements that need to change for improving quality of nursing care. This paper explains that the p...

Trauma Registry Databases and How They Are Used

trauma registry, then, has been viewed as a critical component to the successful development of any hospital or critical care trau...

Changes of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

This 10 page paper provides an overview of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. This paper includes four major changes ...

Iron Deficiency Anemia Case Study

This case study pertains to a patient whom the writer feels has iron deficiency anemia. The writer offers the reasons for offering...

Case Study, Congestive Heart Failure

This case study pertains to Mr. P, a congestive heart failure patient, and his wife. The writer relates an approach to care, a tre...

Mucor Infection, Pneumonia

This research paper presents information relevant to a patient for whom mucor infection has progressed to pneumonia. Lab results a...

Home Visit, Sallie Mae

This research paper/essay concerns a home visit with an older woman suffering from congestive heart failure (CHF, hypertension and...