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Reviews of 8 Diabetes Education Articles

only one group, no control group. Group exposed to treatment and then measure (Creswell, 2003). Measured participants blood gluco...

Training of Nursing Staff and Its Rationale

learned long ago the value of yet another Deming (1986) exhortation, that of continuous improvement. By definition, the concept i...

Interviewing Vulnerable Elders, MDS 3.0

This essay presents a summary and analysis of "Video on Interviewing Vulnerable Elders (VIVE)," which instructs nurses and long-te...

Education in Health Care

This essay comments on four aspects of education in health care beginning with using the COPA model for basic nursing education an...

Mandated Nurse-to-Patient Ratios, The Debate

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

Democratic Style of Nursing Leadership

1930s that focused on the nature of leadership. This body of research identified three principal styles of leadership, which are a...

Proposal for an Addiction Treatment Center

Programs and Addiction Treatment Centers, 2007). Breaking addiction to these and other abused drugs often requires medical interv...

Code Green: Addressing the Problems in Money-Based Hospital Decision-Making

period of restructuring in many industries, including healthcare. Managed care organizations and changes in reimbursement rates f...

Adding an Athletic Trainer to the Sports Medicine Clinic

increase; third-party payers strive to keep payments as low as possible; individuals seek to enhance performance or gain the great...

Avoiding Restraint and Seclusion

design. It is "not grounded in research that supports the therapeutic efficacy of this intervention, but upon the observation tha...

Nursing & Mandatory Overtime

expectancy is increasing and more people are surviving serious illness and living longer with chronic illness. At the same time, t...

Changing a Dangerous Situation

accomplish beneficial behavioral change. As Kurt Lewins pioneering work with change theory points out, any change initiative ent...

Merger Leads to Redsigning Jobs

Many of the physicians on staff had graduated from Harvard Medical School and tended to think themselves superior to everyone and ...

Mandated Nurse-to-Patient Ratios

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

Mental Models of a Finance Officer in a Healthcare Setting

This 3 page paper looks at the type of mental models which may be used by a chief finance officer in a healthcare organization whe...

Nurse Staffing Issues

staffing plans need to include "planned family medical leaves, nurse retirements and other types of turnover" (Morgan and Tobin, 2...

Quality Indicators and Nurse/Patient Ratios

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

Quality in Health Care and the Effects of Agency Nurses

In seventeen pages this research paper examines the U.S. system of health care in terms of the empirical studies that indicate the...

Administrators, Staff Nurses, and Shared Liability

In two pages this paper examines how hospital administrators and staff nurses share medical liability in a definition of the term ...

Turnover Rates of Nursing Staff

In twelve pages this paper discusses the nursing field in a consideration of problematic rates of turnover and reasons behind diff...

ICU Nursing Ratio Restructuring and Change Management

will the organization finance those costs? How will current and future employees view the planned changes? Once senior man...

Nursing Homes and Elderly Abuse

report the trouble. Sometimes they have no family or nobody to report the abuse to. Many nursing homes have no background check ...

The Terminal Patient: A Case Study

paradigm but without the fantasy that acceptance is the ultimate outcome. In treating this patient, a student writing on the subje...

High School Incorporation of Programs on Anger Management

leaving much of the population stranded educationally and economically. Since working at the local mill has always been the way ...

Nursing Home Management Interview Summary

every 30 minutes for protection, safety and placement. This was a two-part citation in that there is no evidence that staff...

Ratio of Patients to Nurses

to the bill as did many nursing executives, arguing that there was sufficient legislation already on the books that dealt with sta...

Clinical Nursing Ladder System Development

process variation, foster awareness of the impact of different clinical decisions, and encourage reduction in undesirable practice...

Nursing and Mandatory Overtime

In five pages this paper examines the exorbitant amount of overtime nurses are required to work in order to compensate for staff s...

Overview of Legionnaire's Disease

This paper consists of ten pages and discusses what hospitals and nursing staff need to know when treating patients suffering from...

Patient Care Quality and Nurse Staffing

In six pages this paper considers studies that explore the link between patient care quality and nurse staffing. Five sources are...