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had even been stalked by patients (Global Forum for Health Research, 2000). A major study in Australia found that there is a sign...

a specific number or percentage of Australian citizens who have or may be suffering from unstable angina. Part of the reason for ...

on diabetes into categories and addresses these topics on separate web pages, as does the first site. The homepage explains that t...

(Wichowski, 2004). This certainly appeared to be the case for Elvis, as he complained about the "Croatian people" in his head who ...

is simply to require that their nursing staff make up for understaffing by working mandatory overtime on a more or less permanent ...

also as a result of the environment in which they are cared for, where smoking is banned. Teaching patients may be seen as a funct...

Smith, et al. (2002) explain that their purpose "was to investigate the effects of therapeutic massage on selected outcomes relate...

Rural Nurses, represented by registered nurse and practicing attorney Jacqulyn Hall, filed an amici curiae (friends of the court) ...

often a factor in nurse/doctor communication. Nurses can bring power to nurse/doctor interchange by harnessing the power of lang...

the KA familys ability to utilize US healthcare systems (Donnelly, 2005). KA parents experience with schizophrenia in their chil...

food, clean water and - most important for some people who did not survive - electricity to keep their life-sustaining equipment r...

assisting registered nurses (RNs) in order to meet legislated requirements (Schaefer 9). This means that while RNs have fewer pati...

This paper offers discussion of several aspects of patient safety. Three pages in length, five sources re cited. ...

there is no cure either for Alzheimers disease or the various forms of dementia on the horizon, healthcare practitioners should "i...

to the passage of the California law (Tevington, 2011). Currently, Connecticut, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Texas an...

risen in the US population, there has been corresponding increase in the incidence of diabetes mellitus, which is associated with ...

was a patient protection initiative which incorporated a requirement for there to be set nasty patient ratios in healthcare system...

nurse to patient ratio in California. In 1992 and 1993 the California Nurses Association has sponsored the Democratic Senator Jack...

the case study, is important for planning a safe and effective rehabilitation program (Craven and Hirnle, 2007). People who experi...

They found differences in these calculations. The major key learning point in this article is that any institution can always get...

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

nursing skill levels and patient mix" (Minimum staff levels, 2004, p. 33). However, the researchers found that a "greater total nu...

the American healthcare system, the debate concerning whether or not states should implement mandated nurse-to-patient ratios rema...

literature and also "analysis of ICD-9-CM codes," which were reviewed by a "clinician panel," offering specific IQs that address i...

of the hospital nursing staff could be nurses with a bachelors degree or higher and that this can have an impact on patient outcom...

an obstruction of the airway and can involved any or all of the following factors: "smooth muscle bronchoconstriction, mucous secr...

and the spirit says, "Ahhh, everything feels much better now" (Wooten, 2005, p. 510). Another factor in her relationships with c...

weaker, less developed than the other. This delayed his walking, and, even after he walked successfully at age 3, it took several ...

Johns Hopkins University and member of the IOM research team that authored the report, said that "fatigue was a major cause of mis...

the situation, the charge nurse might take a number of different actions in response to this information. For example, the charge ...