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DVT and Evidence-Based Practice

breath (King, 2003, p. 24). The factors comprising the triad are "venous stasis, vessel wall damage and coagulation changes" (Van ...

Elderly Privacy In An Institutionalized Setting: Ethical Issues And Social Work Involvement

need to be less oriented to rules and dilemmas, and more attuned to practical matters of everyday social experience" (pp. 19-22); ...

Massage Therapy as Alternative Pain Management

benefits that massage therapy provides for CF patients includes "pain relief, relaxation, improved pulmonary function, decreased a...

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Data

Post-traumatic stress disorder or what is more commonly referred to as PTSD has only been diagnosed using these terms since the la...

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, however, mandated electronic health records for all Medicare and Medicaid pati...

Discussion of Change Theories for Specific Field

The paper begins by briefly identifying and explaining three of the standard change theory/models. The stages of each are named. T...

Coping With Spinal Cord Injury

leaving him paralyzed from his neck down. It seems to take a famous person to contract a disease or suffer such devastating injuri...

Wound Care/Wet-to-Dry v. Advanced Dressings

the same manner, however, this dressing is intended to stay moist until removal; however, this may become a wet-to-dry dressing in...

Article Critique/Handling Difficult Situations/Daily Care

include not only the emotional impact of being experienced by the patient and the relatives involved, but research has also relate...

Rapid Response Team: Quick Recognition And Intervention Of Problems At Va Medical Centers

being more capable of acting proactively and preventively. The philosophy of nursing is something much grander and more complex t...

Nursing Need to Delegate

the nurse is uncertain of which tasks are appropriate to delegation, as well as the skill level of UAPs, their reluctance becomes ...

Depression And Diabetes: Article Reviews

2001. Primary focus was placed upon newly-diagnosed patients at least twenty-one years of age. That they had depression was dete...

Depression And Diabetes: Dietary Choices Of The Elderly And Young Adults

compromised health. Whether diabetes incites depression or is brought about by already-existing depression is a concern that Brow...

Nursing Shortage And Access To Quality Care

that hospital nurse staffing levels are inadequate to provide safe and effective care" (DPE Research Department, 2003). Physicians...

Strict Glycemic Control and the Prevention of Deep Wound Infections in Open Heart Surgery Patients: Proposed Research

in their glycemic index, present many concerns in the post operative environment. This is particularly true for patients that are...

Cognitive Restructuring

meet, however, people in the throes of emotional instability are often incapable of offsetting the destructive thoughts that wande...

Culturally Competent Care

within the students healthcare institution. The discussion concludes with a proposal of possible solution and suggested conclusion...