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Essays 1891 - 1920
seclusion is not new. The American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA) reports that as early as the mid-nineteenth century ther...
overall problem of HIV/AIDs, including current statistics about the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in certain populations and the role tha...
ventilation. This included placing hip pads with egg crate foam under the patients iliac crest to prevent hyperextension of the lo...
In seven pages this paper compares the self care deficit health care theories of Peplau and Orem in terms of similarities regardin...
In five pages this report examines the 1992 novel regarding its themes of memory, love, and war with the incident between Katherin...
In 5 pages this ethical consideration discusses 3 philosophers' views on removing medical patients from life support. There are 5...
In five pages this paper analyzes the novel by Michael Ondaatje in terms of the thematic conflict of nationalism versus common hum...
not provided. In the Patient Protection Act, the confidentiality provisions list those specific purposes for which all pati...
proposed method of resolution is to design, develop and evaluate a clinical, evidence-based "diabetic education program to increas...
ensuring that a significant proportion of stroke victims survive and retain their independence. This is important not only from th...
the difficulties and losses inherent with aging. The assumption is often made that, with age comes transcendental wisdom, but res...
indicated as an advantage of PICCs can be initiated at the bedside by a registered nurse, which avoid the need for general anesthe...
and unequivocally made significant strides" within their specialty over the last two decades (Geiss and Cavaliere, 2003, p. 577). ...
followers must abide by the same doctrines. Post-modernisms discursive system was a reaction to and critique of modernism, with p...
preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...
care model is highly useful with the elderly and those recovering from surgery or illness. Self care is not an issue that enters ...
God" (Hippocratic Oath, 2001). It seems to me that the wording leads the young physician directly into the trap he hopes to avoid...
Yet both organizations also observe that, sometimes, it is necessary to use seclusion and restraint, as a last resort, in order to...
respected academically and is in the business of training future health care providers as it serves the local community. All "att...
continues to battle against the ongoing nursing shortage. Today, the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that ...
only one group, no control group. Group exposed to treatment and then measure (Creswell, 2003). Measured participants blood gluco...
hospitals are not required to report mistakes that have been made to any sort of overseeing agency (Inskeep and Neighmond, 2004). ...
balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...
2% were on home hemodialysis (Freitas, 2002, 167). There are many chronic problems associated with hemodialysis including hyper...
also as a result of the environment in which they are cared for, where smoking is banned. Teaching patients may be seen as a funct...
Sharon Bernier, RN, PhD and President of the National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing, points out that Aikens study also...
which resulted in 47 practices taking part and two of these having two patients. The sample : 98 (75 male) consecutive patients w...
of standards with sets of criteria that must achieved. Standards related to information management span the operations of the orga...
on diabetes into categories and addresses these topics on separate web pages, as does the first site. The homepage explains that t...
not money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely woul...