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(Townsend, 2000). This study is advantageous in many other ways as well to the nursing educator. It utilizes methodologi...
can result in harm to life and bad publicity that could bring down a company. Other major health and safety disasters include Pipe...
a study whose purpose was to determine the way in which patients perceive patient education efforts. This research revealed that c...
and typically occurs by the time a person reaches their 70s. In the U.S., roughly 1.5 million fractures are caused by osteoporosis...
as individuals, "healthcare executives must evaluate the possible outcomes of their decisions and accept full responsibility for t...
of literature about biomedical ethics relative to patient autonomy. This type of autonomy is limited, at best, with managed health...
bodies to produce an excessive amount of cholesterol (Statins safe, 2004). Left untreated, this condition is associated with havin...
exposes patients to new health risks by increasing their tendency to gain weight. Interventions that address the potential for wei...
edema in MS bilateral lower extremities suggests diminished cardiac function is occurring. MS was assessed with potential previou...
explained the process further and made it clear that he would perform the catheterization, the man approved. As this indicates, fr...
Study participants ranged from 20 to 79 years and noted that the mere exchange of information is not enough to accomplish the desi...
hypoglycemia require different nursing responses. Mild hypoglycemia, which is defined by the symptoms listed above and a glucose r...
in response to cognitive and physiological challenge" (Covelli, 2007, p. 323). Diet: Both the intake of dietary sodium and potas...
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...
proven to be the principal reason for nosocomial infections, that is, infections that are acquired after hospital admittance. Impo...
workplace is a critical component of occupational rehabilitation (Morrison, 1993). In one study it was found that employees of inj...
in groups created by the reciprocal model and attention is given to both ideas and feelings (1990). The needs of the group members...
using similar tests and with mixed variables such as aromatherapy and hypnosis. All of the studies mentioned concluded that massag...
caused by the illnesses the may then have a negative physiological backlash on the patient. For other condition it may be the ro...
desire to increase revenue to allow further development and facilitate increased benefits to the users. The errors may not be as s...
student--in respect to hospitalization. One question that also arises is whether the culture of the non-English speaking patient p...
2000). Even as recently as just a couple of decades ago, conditions such as cramps, pregnancy nausea and even labor pains were oft...
is wheelchair bound, but nevertheless cooks for herself and shops for herself in a nearby grocery store, using her motorized wheel...
The link between nurse caring and patient satisfaction has been reported numerous times. For instance, the AORN journal reported a...
analysis. Making use of a sample of 100 patients, the test group is made up of 60 depressed patients with reflex sympathetic dystr...
episode of major depression be treated in this type of program? Or can this person be treated in a primary addiction-oriented prog...
Conroy and Nottoli (1999) report the case of Henry, an irascible octogenarian who easily was the most difficult patient in the ski...
customers, a position that most of the industry shares. McDonalds and Burger King have led the industry in ensuring the saf...
evaluating information (including assumptions and evidence) related to the issue, considering alternatives ... and drawing conclus...
much sugar remains in the blood and too little energy is transferred to other cells. The diabetic needs to take externally adminis...