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This is an executive overview of the need for DVT prophylaxis implementation among diabetes patients at Hampshire Memorial in West...

This research paper provides the details of a health history interview and physical examination conducted for a hypothetical patie...

Hospital chaplains are an essential part of the health team because he or she is the only one with the education and training to m...

This paper pertains to an ethical dilemma faced by hospital nurses caring for patients who are Jehovah's Witnesses. Adherent of th...

This paper pertains to the care of elderly patients in emergency departments (EDs). Three pages in length, four sources are cited....

The purpose of technology in hospitals is to increase efficiency and accuracy of their healthcare systems and to improve patient c...

This essay discusses different issues that center on the traditional organizational structure design. Issues include: patient-cent...

of spirituality is not uniform and that "spirituality" as a term is frequently used as a synonym for religion, which is not necess...

a chromosome deletion. The major symptoms of PWS are: infantile hypotonia, failure to thrive, hypogonadism; developmental delay;...

This paper offers an annotated bibliography which consists of research articles that pertain to CPAP and BiPAP therapies, which ar...

of the patients in a single unit will be assigned to one RN; the other half will be assigned to another. Another will be availabl...

system to destroy abnormal cells. Hormone production is directly connected to psychological states. Countless women can attest to ...

there was a problem of infections in long-term care facilities and in hospitals (Dimond, 1994). These are called nosocomial infect...

to be an essential element in the overall aspect of human life. Without its influential element, myriad individuals would not be ...

in which nurses had to request perceptions for certain types of dressing was a waste of time and resources, which in turn impacted...

Ida would do fine provide support for his theories. All he had to do was to fit her and her symptoms into the framework he alread...

protection. It seems that the purpose of the old system was typical as the facility needed communications. However, in health care...

who are suffering from chronic ailments such as congestive heart failure, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), asthma and...

sense that it is actively intended to cause harm, but negligence occurs when it is established that any reasonable person would ha...

several years. Psychologically, it has been found that individuals more actively involved with their own health care often fare m...

not want his father informed), presenting a rationale for signing a health care proxy becomes extremely problematic. Guidelines us...

provided. A nurse who has back pain will likely reduce the care he or she could otherwise administer. When people have back or m...

primary function is to "pump blood coming into the ventricles from the lower pressure venous system against the higher pressure ar...

authors isolated the following recurring elements, in order of their statistical appearance in the definitions [1]: Violence, forc...

In ten pages medical negligence is considered with such cases as 1957's Bolam v. Friern HMC and 1997's Bolitho v. Hackney HA refer...

Crystalloids and colloids are coming into use for trauma cases where fluids are being used for resuscitation. This paper gives a g...

what is tantamount to a death sentence, because of the "uncertain definition of suicide in the context of a terminal illness" (Mar...

Mr. Schiavo finally was allowed the right to have his wifes feeding tube removed, the right to allow her to die of lack of nutrien...

to identify and to relate in terms of actual patient care. Ida Jean Orlando created a conceptual view of the nursing process whic...

are licensed individuals who go through at least one year of formal education in addition to clinical instruction, and the focus o...