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Patient Scenario on Stroke Examination

affect patient outcomes (Finley, 2004). The degree to which Mr. Smith will be affected by the stroke, and, indeed, his very survi...

Rehabilitation and Acute Stroke Units

ensuring that a significant proportion of stroke victims survive and retain their independence. This is important not only from th...

Mentally Ill Individuals and Medical Insurance

illnesses, for example, often encounters problems in convincing their insurance provider to provide the appropriate reimbursement ...

'Don't Call Me Sweetie!' Australia Nursing Study Reviewed

In six pages this paper examines nursing care from the perspectives of nurses and patients as reported by this Australian study. ...

Native Medical System of Iran

help have as great an expanse of knowledge as is possible. This will also help the Iranian doctors to "find work in the private s...

Prescribing Nurses and the Treatment of Wounds

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

Managed Care and Disabilities Models of Medi Cal

have different health care needs than their non-disabled counterparts (Donegan Shoaf, 1999). Medi-Cal is one such health c...

Overview of Chicago's Edward J. Hines Jr. Hospital

a reputation for efficiency and effectiveness, as well see later on in this paper. The hospital was named in honor of Edwa...

Health Care and Paternalism vs. Autonomy

can be tricky. There are always hypochondriacs or the medically educated who do not necessarily agree with the doctors findings. P...

Infectious Disease Control and Precautions That Are Standard Based

are theoretically viable, but there is actually no evidence to support the claim that UPs will actually reduce the number of expos...

Health Care System Negligence

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

Registered Nurse's Hospital Role

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

Two Scenarios in Medical Ethics

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

Health Care Communication Protocol Enhancement

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

Nursing Dilemma Represented by The English Patient

and two other men beside her patient, she becomes drawn to the patient, though not in a romantic way. She devotes nearly her entir...

Long Term Health Care Facilities and Nosocomial UTI Infections

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

National Health Service and Community Care Act of 1990 and Depression Treatment

diagnosing it. It is not as if depression is difficult to diagnose. What is difficult is getting clients into facilities and to ad...

Research Proposal on SNFs and the RN Shortage

well. This study also appears to be sound scientifically. Its primary means of data analysis is statistical; the methods b...

SNF Costs and the Impact of the Shortage of Registered Nurses

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...

Wound Care/Wet-to-Dry v. Advanced Dressings

the same manner, however, this dressing is intended to stay moist until removal; however, this may become a wet-to-dry dressing in...

Article Critique/Perceptions of Palliative Care

(in English) between the years 1989 and 2004. The extent of the literature review appears to be sufficient to support the research...

Rapid Response Team: Quick Recognition And Intervention Of Problems At Va Medical Centers

being more capable of acting proactively and preventively. The philosophy of nursing is something much grander and more complex t...

U.S. Health Care System

care system. In 2004, Dr. David Brailer, pursuant to an presidential executive order, announced the Strategic Plan for Health Inf...

Dementia

emotional (limbic) memories are affected, and the last group of memories to be affected as the "motor or more reptilian memories,"...

Health Care's Future and Managed Care

of those hospitals in a managed care contract consider joint billing to be important. Only nine percent place importance on group...

ICU Delirium

hospital stays (Cole and Soucy, 2003). While all ICU patients have serious and potentially life-threatening conditions, those ov...

Imogene King: Theory Of Goal Attainment

how to achieve restorative health within an environment of compassion, benevolence and intuitiveness. Indeed, the fundamental bas...

Social Work in Managed Care

figure would increase greatly in coming years (Cohen, 2003). There are twelve basic areas of social work practice, with each ar...

Canada's Health Care System

services to their residents. The system is intended to provide access to medically necessary services to each person. In the lat...

Ethics in Health Care Practice

because he feels that providing them with samples, albeit illegally, is better than letting this impromptu clinic continue. This p...