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

with 200 MHz or higher with 32 MB of RAM is recommended by most facilities); a VGA monitor; mouse or compatible pointing device; k...

International Society for Mental Health Online 3. Ranges of clinical services offered: individual psychotherapy, group psychothera...

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

Understanding that there is a step by step progression, both physically and psychologically, can be part of the nurses role in thi...

management (DM) concept Disease management (DM) is defined as a "systematic clinical improvement process," which addresses both ...

This research paper addresses the issue of patient throughput in overcrowded Emergency Departments (EDs). Management and throughpu...

This study employed a prospective pre-test and a post-test randomized control trial design and a sample group of 53 senior adults ...

leaders should facilitate their development of trans-cultural nursing skills such as being able to assess patterns that are eviden...

background and knowledge to evaluate when there is a need to consult a transcultural nurse specialist, as these specially trained ...

nurses should understand these patients thoroughly, "who they are, where they live and with whom, their current health status and ...

directly against another California law - termed a crime of sexual exploitation (Anderson, 2000), which is part of 42 C.F.R. ? 100...

is the development of Mishels Uncertainty in Illness Scale (MUIS), which is comprised of twenty-eight item measure that utilizes a...

century and also well into the twentieth, what historian Barbara Welter refers to as the "Cult of True Womanhood" characterized ho...

counselor, often causing even greater tension than what already exists and drawing away from the ability to forge an alliance. Se...

whoever the client might be, that is, an individual, family, group or community. The third provision indicates that nurses are als...

While CHF has a mortality rate that ten times that of AIDS and is also responsible for far more hospitalizations than cancer, even...

healing. Respondents who reported moderate stress before group (56.3%) experienced a decrease (43.8%) after group that dropped th...

2004). This is to say nothing of the side effects that accompany every drug manufactured to treat depression. Contrastingly, hol...

This nursing practicum proposal focuses on the mandated nurse-to-patient ratios that have been implemented in California. The writ...

age. Therefore, the patient population is increasing. This factor is also influenced by the fact that that the huge lump in the Am...

arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways and all other products of human work and thought..." (Purnell, 2005, p. 7). It is the eth...

is designed to ensure that "Patients have access to needed care" and that healthcare providers are "free to practice medicine with...

long after all signs of consciousness have ceased. Is this "good"? Is this beneficent? The news tells us of parents confronting me...

operating room to recovery, the tracking of patient information becomes an imperative part of this process (Beyea, Hicks and Becke...

and retention" (Andersen, 2002, p. 603). This then should be the first priority: to design a study that will accrue and retain ...

policies in regard to the PSDA. I have been fortunate in that I was chosen to be a member of that team. Consequently, I have at ...

providers and also provide a well-balanced outline about the issues involved in a patients "right to die" (Hendin, Foley and White...

It seems that within the context of the work, there is little compassion shown for the protagonist with the exception of one oncol...

through the administration of pain medication. It is not to end that suffering through medically-induced suicide. In fact, the C...