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motor vehicle crashes, substance abuse, and illegal behavior" (Visser, Lesesne and Perou, 2007, S99). Symptoms include irritabili...
classify medical errors (Pace et al., 2005). In fact, there are taxonomies to classify errors but they are not standardized (Pace ...
and Perou (2007) report that an estimated five to eighteen percent of youth in the US are diagnosed with ADHD and most receive so...
are told what they should do by their physicians. For example, if a patient visits a doctor and due to age parameters, he or she w...
in the U.S. stands at 8.5 percent to over 14 percent, depending on the specific area of specialty (Letvak and Buck, 2008), by 2020...
Study participants ranged from 20 to 79 years and noted that the mere exchange of information is not enough to accomplish the desi...
the situation, the charge nurse might take a number of different actions in response to this information. For example, the charge ...
paying salaries). Patients are going to generally go to hospitals where their doctors are - though when it comes to emergencies or...
and Blood Institute, 2007). Zardi and colleagues (2008) referred to this procedure as the "gold standard" (p. 48) for assessing th...
"encouragement of facing probl4ems/fears, support of efforts to master problems/ears, affective experiencing/catharsis" (Coady 15)...
there are those that are relevant to childrens protection as well, such as confidentiality. For example, during a recent visit tw...
the patient die (1975). Consider the case of a patient with terminal throat cancer, who is in terrible pain which cannot successfu...
points out, medicalization is a process that defines a problem in terms of the practitioners perspective and cultural biases, rath...
a peaceful death among terminal patients. HSBs of specific groups of any size - whether large or small - are positively related t...
only one group, no control group. Group exposed to treatment and then measure (Creswell, 2003). Measured participants blood gluco...
hospitals are not required to report mistakes that have been made to any sort of overseeing agency (Inskeep and Neighmond, 2004). ...
balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...
2% were on home hemodialysis (Freitas, 2002, 167). There are many chronic problems associated with hemodialysis including hyper...
care model is highly useful with the elderly and those recovering from surgery or illness. Self care is not an issue that enters ...
followers must abide by the same doctrines. Post-modernisms discursive system was a reaction to and critique of modernism, with p...
ensuring that a significant proportion of stroke victims survive and retain their independence. This is important not only from th...
proposed method of resolution is to design, develop and evaluate a clinical, evidence-based "diabetic education program to increas...
her to divide the ways in which certain cultures utilize their power when compared with others. When the student discusses the un...
indicated as an advantage of PICCs can be initiated at the bedside by a registered nurse, which avoid the need for general anesthe...
continues to battle against the ongoing nursing shortage. Today, the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that ...
(Outpatient Surgical Centers, 2005). Surgeons generally are not part of the staff, but the centers employ all other positions req...
God" (Hippocratic Oath, 2001). It seems to me that the wording leads the young physician directly into the trap he hopes to avoid...
Yet both organizations also observe that, sometimes, it is necessary to use seclusion and restraint, as a last resort, in order to...
reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...
2005). However, the employer of these aides will be responsible for ensuring that systems are in place in regards to proper manage...