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Sometimes just the opposite can occur and the bladder does not empty like it should, if at all. Other problems that seem to be ass...

for the family. Finances have been destroyed with assets being wiped out, the stress such illness creates in the other family memb...

need for theory in accomplishing the tasks of direct patient care. There are routines and required protocols to follow, but the p...

later adding informational pamphlets discussing heart disease in the aging. My first meeting with Ms. Bross largely was informati...

All of the results of this reengineering, however, were not as positive. The process had not taken into consideration the fact th...

consent must be made through a signed legal document (Retsas and Forrester, 1995). In all cases consent must be freely and volunt...

of her post-polio syndrome left her unable to completely void her urine, which in turn led to the development of further UTIs. Da...

has been estimated that between 49 and 83 percent of all elderly adults experience pain on a regular basis (Briggs, 2003). Desbi...

clear that the patient is taking part in a decision-making process, and not simply signing a form. In practical terms, of course, ...

some studies that address waiting times that patients invest in seeing physicians, however. McCarthy, McGee and OBoyle (2000) pro...

level of problems for inpatients was 20.9% compared to only 8.4% for outpatients (Wilson et al, 2002). When asked to rate the serv...

"ICU syndrome" (Elliot and Wright, 1999). In its milder form, ICU syndrome was characterized by the presence of confusion and memo...

The Clinical Workstation Application of the 3M(tm) Care Innovation Expert Applications system focuses on providing clinicians and ...

facility grew to over 1,000 beds and the addition of a many barracks-style buildings. The design for a new facility began in 1942 ...

with physicians to "Yes, doctor," the still-proceeding transitions in healthcare continue to elevate the position of nurse while n...

undue fear created but there is also an appreciation of the true nature of the condition and the care the patient needs to take of...

symptoms so that they might seek help at the onset of a respiratory event and to acquaint them with the causes of their condition ...

of dementia depend on the cause of the disease. However, in all senses of the definition of dementia, it is irreversible and will...

Building on the work of William Farr, Jacques Bertillon, the chief statistician for the city of Paris, devised a revised classific...

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

as long as they know whos records they are looking for and how to access them. The next stage from this that avoids the delays eve...

some of the inmates to play poker with pornographic cards. He smuggles hookers in for several of the ward mates, and he threatens ...

issue via conceptual analysis, inasmuch as Walker and Avant provide specific steps that allow one to wholly define the ambiguous a...

Dementia is a debilitating disease that strikes mostly older people. The focus of this essay is Spiritual care for people with dem...

Treating non responsive patients presents challenges. This paper looks at the approach to treatment and sequence which should be u...

The paper is a literature review on the topic of schizophrenia and the impact and influence that the condition has on patients and...

This 3 page paper provides an overview of how Evidence-based practice is used to treat substance abuse disorders. This paper inclu...

The treatments Breuer and Freud developed for treating hysteria had an impact on the development of psychoanalysis. This is discu...

This research paper described a case study and whether or not the patient's health can be beneficially addressed by bariatric surg...

This paper introduces the new diagnostic criteria found in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual V and utilizes those criteria in ...