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Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Use of Low Air Loss Overlay Mattresses on a Stroke and Orthopedic Unit in the Hospital Setting

patients by reducing the number of incidences of pressure ulcers. As research demonstrates an increasing cost of treatment for pr...

Drug Therapy-Statins

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

Music Therapy and Stroke Victims

that "responding to music is an innate human capacity, unimpaired by injury, handicap or trauma" (Case and Else, 2003, p. 43). The...

Proper Care for Stroke Victims, a Case Study

classifies the stroke patients needs in four domains: 1) medical/surgical issues; 2) mental status/emotion/coping behaviors; 3) ph...

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...

Female Senior Citizens and Stroke

cerebellum are affected, then hemi/quadriparesis, hemisensory loss and ataxia, and abnormal eye movements will be noted, along wit...

Educating the Elderly About Strokes

(CVA) (Heart Center Online, n.d.) but it is also called a brain attack (Cornforth , 2002). A stroke happens when oxygen and other ...

Stroke Patient and Increases in Urinary Tract Infections

third of women with urinary tract infection will experience a recurrence during the following year, with recurrence being most com...

The Components of a Tennis Forehand Stroke

contact and ended with completion of the swing. This was further sub-divided into early follow-through (the first 25%) and late fo...

The Field of Nursing and Issues of Aggregate Introduction and Diagnoses in Health Promotion

already has been diagnosed as having some form of heart disease. In that sense, primary prevention is not possible. The goals of...

Difficult Decision Making

as sadness. My Dad quickly smiled and patted me on the back, but in my heart I knew that my decision would forever change the cou...

Research Proposal on Heat Stroke and Ephedra

research proposal, then, is the connection between ephedra and heat stroke and the physiological impacts that this herbal suppleme...

Effects of Strokes

There are many client aggregates to consider when reviewing the special needs of women over fifty in regard to stroke education an...

Stroke Patients and Nursing Case Management

Partially as a result of improved heath care practices which result in longer life and partially as the result of the movement aw...

Geriatric Case Psychosocial Assessment

serious enough to keep her in the ICU unit for three days. Still, it did not take long for Eleanor to resume her activities at ver...

Speech Pathology 3 Scenarios

bloomer from a child with expressive language disorder at an early age. There are, however, many speech pathology assessment ins...

Assessing Quit Smoking Plan

The positive health benefits of quitting begin within minutes of the last smoke, however, it is very hard to quit. This paper repo...

Taunton, Massachusetts' Healthy Heart Stroke Free Initiative

2000). At the same time, nearly 59 million Americans are suffering from some kind of heart disease or risk factor for stroke, in...

Building A Border Wall Between Mexico And The United States

the influx of immigrants: if the economy was stable and healthy, the aliens swarmed to acquire a piece of the money pie. When tim...

Depression And Diabetes: Dietary Choices Of The Elderly And Young Adults

compromised health. Whether diabetes incites depression or is brought about by already-existing depression is a concern that Brow...

Aggression, Domestic Violence And The Cycle Of Abuse

Zimbabwe experience considerably increased incidence of domestic abuse than do women in the United States. Protection for these w...

Stroke Patients and Caring Assistance

have different concerns and worries which will need to be addressed prior to the tackling of the practical issues. The plan will...

Pornography: Affect On Behavior And Potential For Mental Physical Harm

pornography and childrens ability to access it how many times these sites are reached purely by accident. A child in search of th...

Should Plagiarism Prevent Admission to the Bar

of character and fitness needed to assure...the integrity and he competence of services performed for clients... (pp. 195-196). ...

Antibiotic Prophylaxis, Surgery & Accountability

in resistant strains of bacteria (Plonczynski, 2005). This situation suggests that changes in antibiotic prophylactic procedures ...

International Accounting Convergence; IFRS and US GAAP

rely on information flow and also trust. Annual accounts are a major tool used by potential investors to assess an investment. Alt...

Social Engineering and Predatory Crime

social engineering. Judging from the rampant crime rate that afflicts our nation today, however, additional criminal law is very ...

Marketing Tobacco Products; The Ethical Issues

disadvantages are more subjective. Smoking may give many individuals a feeling of empowerment and freedom; a perception put forwar...

Prevention and Management of Constipation

healthcare provider to assess the potential risk of constipation and helping to get preventative measures (Campbell et al, 2001). ...

Burnout

concepts dominated the field of stress research beginning in the 1950s; however, by the 1970s, there was opposition to Selyes stre...