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Nurses Knowledge of Prevention Strategies for Constipation in Elderly Patients who are Bed Bound: A Health Promotion Study

of different causative factors (Clinician Reviews, 2007; Hunter et al, 2002). Extrapolated prevalence rates for constipation in t...

Impact of Persistent Diseases

As we live longer, we are subject to acquiring one or more chronic illnesses, some of which come with advancing age. Older age ran...

Multidisciplinary Teach Back Intervention

More than 25 percent of patients with heart failure are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge and half are readmi...

Utilizing Electronic Patient Records Systems

pilot studies 1. Introduction The potential benefits of technology in the health industry are enormous. In the past the use ...

"Psychosocial Treatments For Bipolar Depression" - Analysis

the combined efforts of intense psychotherapy and standard bipolar medications. Achieving optimum health represents the primary g...

Conversion Disorder

such as tragedies, deaths, serious injuries or threatening situations, require the human being to respond in a way that intensifie...

The Law and Doctor-Patient Sexual Contact in California

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

Group Therapy/Heart Patients with Depression

Heart disease is known to have a significant relationship with depression, which can greatly complicate the processes inherent in ...

Faith-Based Counseling

anxiety or address a family problem, they may prefer faith-based counseling simply because its in a language that fits them and th...

Assistive Devices & The Elderly/Maintaining Independence

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

Strategic Plan: St. Vincent Health Care

route of accessible health care to growing numbers of Americans. Harvards Clayton Christensen has long preached the gospel ...

Using Utilization Management to Determine Courses of Action in a Canadian Hospital

MIS Guidelines? Certainly the publication addresses resource utilization, but does it specifically address creation of a new unit...

Medical Emergency Teams (METs)

intensive care unit (ICU) (Scholle and Mininni, 2006, p. 37). Bedside nurses are encouraged in many hospitals to make a MET call...

Impact of Insured on St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

pay for treatment that is not covered by insurance and families without insurance are not required to pay (SJCRH, 2008). Furthermo...

Prostate Cancer and Quality of Life

& McCorkle (2002) did not explicitly state any research problem or research question, but they do identify two objectives for thei...

Case Study of Diagnoses by DSM IV TR and Patient Assessment

time, after which he began drinking again. After this, the patient demonstrated a desire to poison himself, and this resulted in ...

Patient Care and Issues of Culture and Language

student--in respect to hospitalization. One question that also arises is whether the culture of the non-English speaking patient p...

Dual Diagnosis Patients and the Importances of Comprehensive Treatment Programs

episode of major depression be treated in this type of program? Or can this person be treated in a primary addiction-oriented prog...

Appalachian Patient: Cultural Considerations For Medical Treatment

proximity and/or behavior man has imposed upon his own species. Social norms play an integral role in both setting and meeting th...

How Exercise Delays Onset Of Dementia In Alzheimer's Patients: Literature Review

protocol. Rosenberg et al (2005) and Larson et al (2006) detail the pursuit toward getting the elderly population in step with be...

Exercises for Parkinson's Disease Patient

to the assignment prompt and call the client "Mr. Fox" or "Michael," if the student is so inclined. Walking is highly recommende...

Senior Citizen Mental Patients and Relocation

and that maintaining the most stable possible environment has been found to help alleviate the impact of such behaviours: it might...

Massachusetts General Hospital and its Patient Care Delivery Model

the mid-1990s and later. The hospitals purpose in implementing the PCDM was to decrease costs of both operation and labor, while ...

Patient Choice and Medical Negligence

mechanism it can be expected that this shift in the accountability and transparency needs to be indicates within case law. It can...

Patient Self Determination Act and Health Services Industry

less likely to have advanced directives (Hanson and Rodgman, 1996). This same study reported the use of advanced directives incre...

Multiple Sclerosis Client Case Study Patient Assessment

of anxiety due to the diagnosis. She is single but hoped to one day get married and have children. The sudden onset of symptoms an...

COPD Patient Mechanical Ventilation Case Study

and John noted a resistance to mechanical ventilation as a part of the treatment plan. John stated in one of his few lucid period...

Five Patients by Michael Crichton

presented with a kind of awe and hope in terms of the medical industry. We are also provided with a look at interns and the ent...

The Importance of Well Written and Presented Educational Materials in Patient Wellness

health information is pivotal to the efforts of practitioners in promoting health, changing behaviors and attitudes, and preventin...

Podiatry Patient Satisfaction Proposal

2002). Another technique to use is to measure the degree of satisfaction among ones patients. This is the first step that will ...