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Failures in Fall Prevention Practices

The writer looks at the best practice strategies to reduce fall rates in elderly community based patients. The research based bet ...

Feedback from a Mentor on Presentation Proposing a Fall Prevention Program

The writer provides some feedback that may have been provided by a mentor, looking at a presentation given by the student. The pr...

Nursing Error and Understaffing

This research paper employs a nursing case study in order to discuss issues associated with understaffing and its negative impact ...

Tone and Expectations of Nursing Managers' Role

This research paper discusses how nursing managers establish a workplace culture that supports the delivery of quality patient car...

Hispanics and Diabetes Management

Have you had any experience in helping a friend or family member manage diabetes? The patient replied that she was not aware of...

Balance of Philosophy and Nursing Values

not money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely woul...

Senior Citizen Mental Illness Workplace Management and Prevention of Violence

to nonadherence to medication in the mentally ill elderly is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connot...

Practical Nursing Theory Application

care model is highly useful with the elderly and those recovering from surgery or illness. Self care is not an issue that enters ...

Literature Review of Incidences of Septic Shock and Sepsis in ICU Patients

result in septic shock. Of that 200,000, approximately half result in death due to the onset of sepsis and the subsequent septic ...

Concepts of Self Care

to the wide-ranging aspect of nursing than merely administering medicine; in fact, the myriad components that ultimately comprise ...

Effects of New Health Reform Policy

income (Douglas & Burke, 2010; Kaiser Family Foundation, 2011). Medicare taxes on net investment income will also increase from 0....

Primary Prevention in Diabetic Care

can be easily determined via the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) and by testing fasting plasma glucose (FPG), as these tests ar...

Practicum Example for a Nursing Course

of falls in elderly chronic patients at that home. 1c. Discuss findings with supervisor/mentor. 1a. The creation of a detailed...

Ethical Issues in Mental Health Care Practice

This research team selected homeless adolescents as the focus for their study. While, in general, the concept that informed parent...

Impact of Managed Care

that the government did not intend when establishing Medicare in the 1960s. At present, Medicare virtually rules all of Ame...

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...

Article Summary on High Blood Pressure

differences between these two classifications are then described and three factors that are believe to influence the formation of ...

Teenagers and Pallative Care

have changed considerably over the last century. This change is associated with a number of factors, the most prominent being our...

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...

Medical Research Project and Ethical Considerations

In five pages a medical research project is examined in terms of ethical considerations regarding specialty medical care employees...

Nursing Assignment Acceptance and the Position Statement of the American Nurses Association

Nursing ethics and autonomy are considered in this discussion of the position statement by the ANA regarding nurses' rights to acc...

Nursing and Its Cultural Aspects

In five pages the cultural aspects of the nursing profession are considered in a discussion that while Canadian and U.S. nurses mi...

The Nature of HIV/AIDS and the Implications and Treatment of the Disease

10 pages and 7 sources. This paper assesses the existing views of HIV/AIDS, including the approaches to patient care. This paper...

Health Care Proxy for New York

In five pages this paper discusses New York's health care proxy regarding the wishes of incompetent patients passed in light of t...

Considerations Involving Medical Data

In five pages this paper examines the problems posed by electronic medical information and the assistance offered by SISTeM in ter...

Nursing Research and its Significance

In seven pages this paper discusses the importance of nursing research for a clear understanding of methodology and ever changing ...

Insurance Companies, Health Professionals, and HMO

In ten pages this paper examines the issues involving health care professionals and insurance companies as they relate to HMO and ...

Hospital Organization Case Study

to the CEOs statement, the difficulties which the hospital is experiencing can be divided into two main but overlapping categories...

Geriatric Care Quality

balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...

Nursing in Great Britain, Clinical Supervision

patient care" (p. 438). Prior to 1970, nursing training in the UK could be described as rigid and highly structured. After...