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Patient Education and Compliance: Review of the Literature and Proposal for Black Male Diabetics Ages 40 through 60

Study participants ranged from 20 to 79 years and noted that the mere exchange of information is not enough to accomplish the desi...

Importance of Correct Insulin Dosage

hypoglycemia require different nursing responses. Mild hypoglycemia, which is defined by the symptoms listed above and a glucose r...

Treating Osteoporosis

and typically occurs by the time a person reaches their 70s. In the U.S., roughly 1.5 million fractures are caused by osteoporosis...

The Ethical Responsibilities of Health Care Organizations

as individuals, "healthcare executives must evaluate the possible outcomes of their decisions and accept full responsibility for t...

Occupational Rehabilitation For A Nurse; A Case Study

workplace is a critical component of occupational rehabilitation (Morrison, 1993). In one study it was found that employees of inj...

Basic Rights in Health Care

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...

Nurses Job Satisfaction

in the U.S. stands at 8.5 percent to over 14 percent, depending on the specific area of specialty (Letvak and Buck, 2008), by 2020...

HOSPITAL CASE STUDY

paying salaries). Patients are going to generally go to hospitals where their doctors are - though when it comes to emergencies or...

NP role in EDs/Study Article Critique

and theoretical Framework: The instrument designed for use in this study drew heavily upon the survey developed by Cole, et al, wh...

Role of Charge Nurse

the situation, the charge nurse might take a number of different actions in response to this information. For example, the charge ...

Hospital Medicare Reimbursement

to take expensive prescription medications as prescribed. This acerbates medical conditions and results in increases in acuity lev...

Quality of Life with AIDS

system, decreasing the natural defenses that allow the body to fight off infections and diseases (Etiology, 2008). As this suggest...

A Child’s Voice/Holistic Perspective

and the spirit says, "Ahhh, everything feels much better now" (Wooten, 2005, p. 510). Another factor in her relationships with c...

Pediatric Asthma Case Management

an obstruction of the airway and can involved any or all of the following factors: "smooth muscle bronchoconstriction, mucous secr...

Health Care Services Case Study

healthcare services to senior citizens, which is an at-risk population in this country. One helping approach for people with dis...

Confidentiality/ANA Ethics & New York State Law

This ANA Code also specifically includes the possibility that "inappropriate disclosure" can occur by using "identifiable patient ...

The Importance of Hope in Palliative Care

are fatigued often have trouble dealing successfully with their illness. In this article Benzein and Berg note that "Hope, hopeles...

Nursing While Impaired

Johns Hopkins University and member of the IOM research team that authored the report, said that "fatigue was a major cause of mis...

Nursing Questions

provide effective communication, the Band Aid song "Do They Know Its Christmas" a song which led to Live Aid was effective; this w...

Aveyard/Believing and Doubting

explained the process further and made it clear that he would perform the catheterization, the man approved. As this indicates, fr...

Ethics Of Managed Care

of literature about biomedical ethics relative to patient autonomy. This type of autonomy is limited, at best, with managed health...

Drug Therapy-Statins

bodies to produce an excessive amount of cholesterol (Statins safe, 2004). Left untreated, this condition is associated with havin...

Deep Wound Infection and Blood Glucose Levels: A Proposed Study

infections can, of course, relate to a number of factors. The type of care needed can vary both according to the type of wound an...

Deep Wound Infection and Blood Glucose Levels: A Proposed Study

not just in adverse impacts to the patients themselves but also in significant societal costs. Wounds that are improperly cared f...

Hip Fracture and Stress

Plus Program, that was implemented in the study performed by Resnick and colleagues was found, among other benefits, to improve af...

Schizophrenia and Weight Gain

exposes patients to new health risks by increasing their tendency to gain weight. Interventions that address the potential for wei...

Nurses Knowledge of Prevention Strategies for Constipation in Elderly Patients who are Bed Bound: A Health Promotion Study

of different causative factors (Clinician Reviews, 2007; Hunter et al, 2002). Extrapolated prevalence rates for constipation in t...

Jean Watson's Theory Of Human Caring & Personal Reflection

it is like the concept of paying it forward. Praying forward is that act of doing something kind or helpful for someone else, they...

Putting Kolcaba's Theory of Comfort in Practice

a peaceful death among terminal patients. HSBs of specific groups of any size - whether large or small - are positively related t...

Coronary Angiography

and Blood Institute, 2007). Zardi and colleagues (2008) referred to this procedure as the "gold standard" (p. 48) for assessing th...