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Putting Kolcaba's Theory of Comfort in Practice

a peaceful death among terminal patients. HSBs of specific groups of any size - whether large or small - are positively related t...

The Common Factors Approach to Psychotherapy

"encouragement of facing probl4ems/fears, support of efforts to master problems/ears, affective experiencing/catharsis" (Coady 15)...

Ethical Issue Of Confidentiality In School Counseling

there are those that are relevant to childrens protection as well, such as confidentiality. For example, during a recent visit tw...

Coronary Angiography

and Blood Institute, 2007). Zardi and colleagues (2008) referred to this procedure as the "gold standard" (p. 48) for assessing th...

Health Care Interdisciplinary Teams

patient, the attending nurse is seldom in the room at the same time. The attending physician may refer the patient to a cardiologi...

ADHD and the Role of the Psychiatric Nurse

motor vehicle crashes, substance abuse, and illegal behavior" (Visser, Lesesne and Perou, 2007, S99). Symptoms include irritabili...

Medical Coding

classify medical errors (Pace et al., 2005). In fact, there are taxonomies to classify errors but they are not standardized (Pace ...

ADHD: A Critique of the Research

and Perou (2007) report that an estimated five to eighteen percent of youth in the US are diagnosed with ADHD and most receive so...

Hospital Medicare Reimbursement

to take expensive prescription medications as prescribed. This acerbates medical conditions and results in increases in acuity lev...

HOSPITAL CASE STUDY

paying salaries). Patients are going to generally go to hospitals where their doctors are - though when it comes to emergencies or...

MANAGING HEALTHCARE FOR THE UNINSURED

The problem is that the system is broken when it comes to getting appropriate healthcare to the uninsured. Even if Congress passes...

Importance of Health Care Communication

to adopt healthy living habits (Schiavo, 2007). The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) says health communication is ...

HMO Incentives for Doctors

2008). Incentive programs can actually have very positive outcomes if they are used correctly and ethically (Sabin, 2008). In so d...

Health Care Staff Shortages

nurses by 2012 to eliminate the shortage (Rosseter, 2009). By 2020, the District of Columbia along with at least 44 states will ha...

END-OF-LIFE PLANNING, NURSING AND GUIDANCE

to provide adult individuals, at the time of inpatient admission (or enrollment) information about state laws rights concerning ad...

The NHS as a Model of Healthcare

by many the local and national government ought to have a more important role in the healthcare of the nations. As early as 1900 t...

HEALTH CARE ACT AND MENTAL HEALTH

this rhetoric was how the act would impact the millions of people in the United States who suffer from emotional or physical disor...

Quality Improvement in Health Care

than nurses, executives and managers at those hospitals. St. Lukes Medical Center St. Lukes is a 154-bed hospital located in S...

Nurses Using Evidenced-Based Practices

Nursing has evolved over the decades primarily as a result of research (Director, 2009). Nurses recognize a problem and introduce ...

Developing a Care Plan

prior to being admitted to the care facility, it is possible that these needs are not being met. There is also the religious need ...

Reflective Learning in the Radiology Department

This is the event for which the processes focused, on which the reflection is taking place. This is an objective stage where the d...

Oral History vs the Clinical Record

story behind Lennox Castle Hospital. Colin Sprowl, a man that worked over thirty years at the hospital as a male nurse, provides ...

Ethics in Palliative Care

regarded as creating obligations on others to help her exercise her rights. An inherent theme that is implied in all of the questi...

Big Pharma Exposed

grew from an average of seven in 1993 to an average of eleven in 2000 to an average of twelve in 2004 (Critser, 2007). At the tim...

Healthcare and the Dangers of Nosocomial Infections

services. However, the greatest cost of all has been to human life, because nosocomial infections have resulted in patient deaths...

The Need for Quicker Lab Results

whether or not a patient complaining of chest pains is having or has had a heart attack (American Clinical Laboratory Association,...

The Trial by Franz Kafka

that it is impossible for a mere individual to resist the monolithic nature of an authoritarian state, also can be interpreted on ...

Type II Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease

In two pages cardiovascular disease and the complications it represents for patients suffering from Type II diabetes are discussed...

Massage as a Complimentary Medicine

an overview of the issues that surround massage and the literature that support the fact that it is an effective approach in the t...

CULTURALLY COMPETENT CARE AND HOLY REDEEMER

culturally competent care. Well examine what the literature has to say about such standards and, with this background, and an unde...