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Falls and the Retired Population - An Annotated Bibliography

The writer reviews and present the main theme of fifteen articles that would be useful in a project to assess the impact that fal...

Explaining DNRs

agent, such as an adult child or another proxy. In recent years, the DNR has been included in the Physicians Orders for Life Susta...

Quality Improvement Tools Healthcare

or the frequency level of falls in terms of overall patient numbers. For quality improvement to take place it is necessary not onl...

Internet CBT for OCD

disorder that is characterized by obsessions, i.e., thoughts, and/or compulsions, acts that must be done. The acts become rituals....

CHF Guidelines and Readmission Rates

the highest readmission rates for congestive heart failure (CHF), as well as other conditions (DeFelice, et al, 2010). Initially, ...

Cultural Influences on Attitudes to Schizophrenia

have on patient outcomes. It was found patients from the Mexican American families, where there was a lower level of EE were also ...

Fall Prevention in the Elderly in Home Care

percent of that total population lose their ability to walk (Tonarelli, 2010). Hip injuries and falls of any kind can reduce the ...

Quantitative Article Review

use of continuing education to improve patient care (Sterman, Gauker & Krieger, 2003). Effects of nursing rounds, call light use, ...

Issues Concerning Childhood Depression

the childs life. Children are not simply adults in miniature, as their bodies and organ function are in a continual state of deve...

Somatoform Disorders and DSM-V

one-third of patients with major depression experience remission using the first medication prescribed. This leads the doctor will...

Effects of Mental Illness

(Smith, 2006). They need to realize they will become tired and frustrated. What family and friends can do to help the patient is...

Applying Utilitarianism to an Ethical Decision

for a long period of time. It may be noted that the problem was caused by steroid use when jerry was in his 20s, and the dangers w...

Diabetic Ketoacidosis, A Case Study

serious, potentially fatal, but preventable, complication of diabetes mellitus that occurs when there is insufficient insulin to m...

Case Study, Acute Renal Failure

abnormal (Yadkin, 2011). The ratio between the BUN reading and creatinine should not be greater than 20:1 or less than 10:1 and th...

Powerlessness and Coronary Heart Disease, A Concept Analysis

perception of powerlessness is a condition that can affects virtually all individuals at some point in their lives (Dryer, 2006). ...

Dyspnea, Family Caregiving and Quality of Life

primary symptoms of COPD are "wheezing, cough, dyspnea on exertion and increased phlegm production" (Touhy and Jett, 2012, p. 289)...

Traumatic Brain Injury, Remediation

to any injury to the head that impairs subsequent brain functioning. While mild TBI can appear to have left the individual unimpai...

Implementing and then Assessing the a New Web Based Communication Strategy

The writer looks at a hospital planning on implementing a web chat facility on their corporate web site to increase communication...

Research on Polypharmacy and Elderly

with chronic conditions to live longer, despite the presence of these conditions. However, the pharmaceutical innovations that mak...

Treatment and Outcomes for Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma

using CHOP alone. This study involved 399 patients who were 60 years of age and older in the advanced stages of NHL ("Adult NHL,"...

Capital and Operating Projections for an IT Project

last start up cost is the start up training costs for the staff, if the staff are to be brought in from external sources there may...

Facing a Family Health Challenge

frequently the needs of terminal patients are not addressed properly and that multiple problems exist in this regard. Practitioner...

Healthcare and the Dangers of Nosocomial Infections

services. However, the greatest cost of all has been to human life, because nosocomial infections have resulted in patient deaths...

The Need for Quicker Lab Results

whether or not a patient complaining of chest pains is having or has had a heart attack (American Clinical Laboratory Association,...

PICOT Question: Chemotherapy-induced Nausea

This research paper utilizes a PICOT formatted question to search various databases for articles pertaining to chemically-induced ...

Curriculum and Teaching, Integrating Knowledge

This essay draws upon research to discuss adult learning theory and student-centered learning and then discusses how this informat...

Diabetes, Internet Websites

This research paper describes the content of five internet sites that pertain to diabetes mellitus. The writer discusses the utili...

The Role of Health Professionals in Healthcare IT

IT systems have the potential to add value to the way healthcare is provided as well as increase quality when applied in a patien...

Vulvovaginal Candidiasis, an Overview

This research paper presents an overview of diagnosis and treatment for vaginitis, focusing specifically on infection caused by vu...

Scope of Practice and APN Roles

This research paper presents an examination of nursing empirical literature that covers a number of issues relevant to advanced pr...