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Assistive Devices & The Elderly/Maintaining Independence

This study employed a prospective pre-test and a post-test randomized control trial design and a sample group of 53 senior adults ...

Enhancing Cultural Competency

leaders should facilitate their development of trans-cultural nursing skills such as being able to assess patterns that are eviden...

Adverse Drug Reaction Among Elderly Patients: Impact Upon Costs And Length Of Hospital Stay

population want to be able to take care of themselves, yet they are rarely given the tools with which to accomplish this objective...

Nursing Shortage In The United States: Causes, Effects And Solutions

Budget cutbacks, burnout and lack of student enrollment have precluded sufficient staffing in many critical areas of healthcare. ...

Faith-Based Counseling

anxiety or address a family problem, they may prefer faith-based counseling simply because its in a language that fits them and th...

The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act Issues

The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010. It is a progressive, sequential act with different parts mandat...

Recent Encounter with a Patient with Chest Pain

This research paper pertains to a nursing encounter in which a patient presented with chest pain. The writer discusses NIC, NOC an...

Meal Plan for a Cancer Patient

This paper offers a meal plant designed to address the needs of a cancer patient. Three pages in length, six sources are cited. ...

Multidisciplinary Teach Back Intervention

More than 25 percent of patients with heart failure are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge and half are readmi...

Noncompliant Patients Due to Culture

The United States has become more and more diverse over the last four decades and that diversity continues to expand. Different cu...

Patient Safety Issues, Nursing

This paper offers discussion of several aspects of patient safety. Three pages in length, five sources re cited. ...

Patients Going to Latin America for Treatment

Medical and dental costs have soared in the United States. Insurance plans are sometimes tricky in their language and they do not ...

Nutritional Needs of Intubated Patient, COPD

This research paper describes COPD, a case study, and then presents recommendations for meeting his nutritional needs. Five pages ...

Interventions for Patients

This essay provides information and insight on different psychotherapeutic interventions for different mental illnesses. Psychodyn...

Impact of Persistent Diseases

As we live longer, we are subject to acquiring one or more chronic illnesses, some of which come with advancing age. Older age ran...

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 ...

Electronic Patient Records and Ethical Issues

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at the use of electronic patient records. Example case studies highlight the risks and b...

How to Better Help Schizophrenic Patients

This paper points out the importance of using evidence-based practices with people who have schizophrenia. The paper includes sect...

Care for Patients Suffering from Addiction, an Article Analysis

This article analysis pertain is on an article authored by Bartlett and colleagues (2013). The article is summarized and the write...

Hypertension Education for African American Patients

in response to cognitive and physiological challenge" (Covelli, 2007, p. 323). Diet: Both the intake of dietary sodium and potas...

Multicomponent individualized smoking cessation intervention for patients with lung disease

(Townsend, 2000). This study is advantageous in many other ways as well to the nursing educator. It utilizes methodologi...

PATIENT SAFETY AND CONSUMER-DIRECTED HEALTH CARE

had pushed through legislation mandating mandatory medical error reporting (Hosford, 2008). Additionally, and perhaps more importa...

Artificial Nutrition/hydration & Terminal Pediatric Patient

the insertion of a central line, threaded through a vein, and it was once believed that it would aid cancer patients, restoring ap...

Dahl, Williams and Pediatric Patients

This essay refers to narratives by Raoul Dahl and William Carlos Williams that relate pediatric examination experience in the earl...

Ethics: Case Study of a Patient on Dialysis

This research paper concerns the case of Mrs. B., a woman on dialysis who states her intention to discontinue treatment. The ethic...

Issues Pertaining to Patient Consent and Dignity

This research paper/essay pertains to a case study in which a 69-year-old man is administered by enema over his protests. Consulti...

Tonsillectomy Patient

with opioids and can be reversed with the antagonist flumazenil (Krauss and Green, 2006). During the procedure, midazolam is used ...

Nursing Philosophy for Professional Practice

nurses should understand these patients thoroughly, "who they are, where they live and with whom, their current health status and ...

Needs Assessment for an Administrator of Patient Care Services for Women's Healthcare Services

often impacts the health and well-being of other members in a family (Miami Valley Hospital, 2004). As a result, the Womens Healt...

Patient Case Study

edema in MS bilateral lower extremities suggests diminished cardiac function is occurring. MS was assessed with potential previou...