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Examination of Congestive Heart Failure

The link between behavioral components and risk factors has been a major element in the focus on nursing paradigms and treatment p...

Infections of the Urinary Tract

This is significant to nursing because nurses have to learn to insert and remove the catheter from the patient which is sometimes ...

An Article on Nosocomial Infection Reviewed

The problem is important for nursing study because (1) it is so pervasive, and (2) returning to basics - hand washing, surface dis...

Assessiing Chlamydia and Intervention Options

and treatments which are necessitated by the venereal disease Chlamydia. The venereal disease Chlamydia presents a number o...

The History and Evolution of Infection Control

estimating it will cost a normal sized office up to $1,200 per year to comply with the new regulations. OSHA wants to see a writt...

Overview of Histoplasmosis Capsulatum

of inhaled spores and strength of the immune system. Fortunately, the organism does not spread from person to person, so you canno...

2001 Newspaper Research on Anthrax

question to be asked is, "What exactly is anthrax?" The proper medical term for anthrax is Bacillus anthracis, which is the Greek...

Century of Controlling Infections from 1850 until 1950

In five pages this paper discusses the milestones regarding the control of infections during this time period in a consideration o...

Nursing History and Controlling Infection

This history of nursing considers how antibiotic and antisepsis control of infections developed in five pages. Two sources are ci...

Overview of Skin Disorders

and keratin fragments to adhere to the sebum and block the follicle opening. Bacteria trapped with free fatty acids within the fo...

UTIs and Cranberries

In a paper consisting of five pages this paper discusses how cranberries can be used to prevent urinary tract infections. Six sou...

Causes and Prevention of Nosocomial Infections

In five pages this report discusses nosocomial infections that can occur in a clinical or hospital setting in a consideration of c...

Food-Borne Illnesses From Listeriosis Bacteria

"special life style," which enables this bacterium to escape from phagosome and circulating antibodies (Jin, 2002). One of the pri...

A Lesson Plan For Infection Control

control in the long term care setting. Avoidance of infection is preferable over the need for cure, and also has the effect of in...

UK General Ward and Mental Health Ward Risk Management Comparison

(Briggs, 2003). At the lower levels of the hierarchy there is also a very clear and specified role to accept "personal responsibil...

MRSA Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)

of settings ranging from nursing homes, to prisons, to athletic teams (Turabelidze, Mei Lin, Wolkoff, Dosson, Gladback, and Zhu, 2...

HIV/AIDS & African American Women

"African American womens rights and underscores their physical, emotional and sociocultural vulnerability to HIV/AIDS" (Williams, ...

Surgery Preparation of Hands

non-sterile paper. The participant would then use a sufficient amount of the aqueous alcoholic solution to fully cover the hands...

The Problem of Poverty and HIV/AIDS Risk for Black American Women

Study The central goal of this study is to consider the social problem of HIV infection/AIDS and the role that poverty and race/e...

Nursing Practice and Otitis Media

of ear infection (Chronic otitis media, 2003). OM is a serious childhood illness because, if not properly treated, it can lead to ...

Hand Washing and the Care of Patients

preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...

Dressings and Prevention of Infections Related to Catheters

risk of such infections. The CDC reports that the incidence of both local and bloodstream infections associated with peripheral ...

Fear of Hand Sanitizer, a Statistical Sampling

time; there is now a class of staphylococcus bacteria that is resistant to all known antibiotics and has been blamed for the death...

Study Proposal on UTIs and Cranberries

and a hypothesis as well as a sampling design, data analysis plan and how the data will be collected. A statement of data analysis...

Patients with Suppressed Immune Systems and Basic Precautions

made of cotton or cotton blends, which absorb rather than repel fluids. One of the most important precautions that a nurse can t...

Article Critique/Compliance with Hand Hygiene Guidelines

a concise, but thorough description of the study that certainly will engage the interest of any healthcare professional researchin...

Research Study Proposal/Hand washing

to wash their hands both before and after attending each patient. However, one physician-investigators asserts in reference to doc...

Teaching About STIs to Young Teens

discuss and name the various methods for preventing the transmissions of STIs; and also, they will demonstrate ability to resist p...

Symptoms and Treatment of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus

Cellulitis is an "infection of the skin"; boils are "pus-filled infections of hair follicles"; abscesses are "collections of pus u...

Strict Glycemic Control and the Prevention of Deep Wound Infections in Open Heart Surgery Patients: Proposed Research

in their glycemic index, present many concerns in the post operative environment. This is particularly true for patients that are...