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COPD Patient Mechanical Ventilation Case Study

and John noted a resistance to mechanical ventilation as a part of the treatment plan. John stated in one of his few lucid period...

Senior Citizen Mental Patients and Relocation

and that maintaining the most stable possible environment has been found to help alleviate the impact of such behaviours: it might...

Massachusetts General Hospital and its Patient Care Delivery Model

the mid-1990s and later. The hospitals purpose in implementing the PCDM was to decrease costs of both operation and labor, while ...

Patient Self Determination Act and Health Services Industry

less likely to have advanced directives (Hanson and Rodgman, 1996). This same study reported the use of advanced directives incre...

Nursing Care and Patient Diagnosis

is wheelchair bound, but nevertheless cooks for herself and shops for herself in a nearby grocery store, using her motorized wheel...

Patient Care and Issues of Culture and Language

student--in respect to hospitalization. One question that also arises is whether the culture of the non-English speaking patient p...

Dual Diagnosis Patients and the Importances of Comprehensive Treatment Programs

episode of major depression be treated in this type of program? Or can this person be treated in a primary addiction-oriented prog...

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

There is no question that death plays a major role in this story, as evidenced not only by all the dying patients but also through...

Dehydration & Older Patient

dehydrated? Has literature simply made you aware of this potential problem? You might say something like: "Considering the dire co...

2005's Safe Nursing and Patient Act, Legal and Ethical Concerns

is simply to require that their nursing staff make up for understaffing by working mandatory overtime on a more or less permanent ...

Review of "Outcomes of Therapeutic Massage for Hospitalized Cancer Patients"

Smith, et al. (2002) explain that their purpose "was to investigate the effects of therapeutic massage on selected outcomes relate...

Reflective Learning Model and Patient Depression Treatment

ten years and in raising her son has also incurred several debts which have created stress, these are an issue. Joan needs to work...

Persistent Vegetative State Patients and Ethical Decision Making

the balloon, and certain gestures, were definite responses to the environment and evidence of consciousness, but the doctors disag...

Models of Instruction for Educating Patients

of media in group instruction (Mensing and Norris, 2003). When people can share how they handle actual effects of an illness, ever...

The Villa San Girolamo Setting of The English Patient

true despite the fact that it has been hurt by war. It stands. The people are in some way in a sense of a denial. The author goe...

Home Care Senior Citizen Patients and Chronic Undertreatment

2. constant monitoring for potential complications 3. the willingness to utilize both pharmacological and nonpharmacologi...

Senior Citizen Surgery Patients and Risk Assessment

planning for postoperative care (Dunn 36). For example, if a patient suffers from poor lung function, that patient is at greater r...

Cancer Patients and Nursing

that is, whether it will spread (metastasize) and what symptoms that it is likely to cause (Cancer diagnosis, 2005). The term "sec...

Terminally Ill Patients and Nursing Care

the needs of the dying and her work indicates that there are times when the most meaningful communication that a nurse can offer i...

Geriatric Mentally Ill Patients and Nursing

characteristics of metal disorders may include abnormalities in cognition, mood or emotions; it may include abnormalities in integ...

Falls and Senior Citizen Patients

that are often incurred as a natural part of the aging process (Wang and Wollin, 2004). These changes include "impaired vision and...

Arguing Against Nurses Participating in the Death of Patients and the Christine Busalacchi Case

Rural Nurses, represented by registered nurse and practicing attorney Jacqulyn Hall, filed an amici curiae (friends of the court) ...

Relationship Between Patient Mechanical Ventilation and Oral Hygiene

billions in additional health care cost. Likewise, Houston, et al (2002) substantiate that contraction of nosocomial pneumonia co...

Patients with Diabetes and Diet

other organs, such as the heart, kidneys and eyes (Visalli, 1996). Although individuals with Type I diabetes must take insulin, d...

Nursing Korean and Russian Patients and Cultural Competence

the KA familys ability to utilize US healthcare systems (Donnelly, 2005). KA parents experience with schizophrenia in their chil...

Teams and Patient Satisfaction

In ten pages this research paper presents a literature review on team nursing as a way of increasing patient satisfaction. Thirte...

Patient Outcomes and the Collaboration Between Physicians and Nurses

often a factor in nurse/doctor communication. Nurses can bring power to nurse/doctor interchange by harnessing the power of lang...

Adult Psychiatric Patients and Reduction of Restraint Usage

seclusion is not new. The American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA) reports that as early as the mid-nineteenth century ther...

Patients Who Are Suicidal and Neural Biochemical Factors

the most commonly prescribed medicines for childhood depression. Their use, however, use comes with substantial concerns. Brent...

Symptom Management Utilizing Behavioral Modification Techniques for Cancer Patients

fighting the more personal types of cancer in particular necessitates careful attention to ethical conduct. Informed consent, for ...