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The Influence of Environmental Factors on Falls

This paper is an annotated bibliography written in support of a nursing paper examining environmental factors which may influence...

Circulating Nurse Surgery Case Study

ventilation. This included placing hip pads with egg crate foam under the patients iliac crest to prevent hyperextension of the lo...

Family Health Intervention and Nursing Diagnosis

condition, her lack of awareness of her own limitations or lack of limitations in activity, and her response to various types of p...

Case Study on Workplace Drug Abuse

a patient to keep her own supply steady? Will she make a mistake and do something wrong as a result of substance abuse? So many th...

DSM IV Diagnostic Criteria and Treatment of PTSD

after the exposure to the initiating traumatic event (Stein, 2002). If PTSD-like symptoms become evidence and are intense prior to...

Diagnoses and Nursing

of a break in the skin (a cut, a crack in dry skin) becomes infected by bacteria or fungi (Monroe, 2003). Cellulitis can also occ...

Overview of a Case Study on Nursing

(rural communities were slower to put into place screening mechanisms for HIV in the blood supply used for transfusions). Final...

Schizophrenic Patients and Therapeutic Nursing Relationship

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

Nursing Care and Patient Diagnosis

is wheelchair bound, but nevertheless cooks for herself and shops for herself in a nearby grocery store, using her motorized wheel...

Depression, Pain, and Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy

with "depression, sleep disturbance, fatigue, and decreased overall physical and mental functioning" (Hearn, 2001). Problem Stat...

Behavior Impropriety and Nursing Ethics

states, "The nurse promotes, advocates for, and strives to protect the health, safety and rights of the patient" (Code of Ethics f...

Qualitative Study Death Sentence' to 'Good Cancer' Couples' Transformation of a Prostate Cancer Reviewed

objective in conducting their study was to "describe the experience of men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer and their wives,...

Roy Model and Infection Control

the medical team with which these patients have surrounded themselves. It is the patients responsibility to cooperate and do ever...

The Elderly and Alternative Care Choices

runs $127 on average (Cummings, 2002). The goal of the ALF is to help senior citizens maintain as much independence as possible wi...

Health Care Governance - Three Studies

All of these studies reflect empirical studies of hospital populations in an effort to determine how changes in the healthcare env...

An Article on Nursing Education Critiqued

(p. 1617). This suggests that the subject for this study is so under-researched that there are no previous studies to cite, which ...

Multiple Sclerosis Client Case Study Patient Assessment

of anxiety due to the diagnosis. She is single but hoped to one day get married and have children. The sudden onset of symptoms an...

Studies and Recommendations on Burnout of Nurses in Oman and Other Countries

of the nurses and the nurse population ratio is considered higher than most in the region (MoH, 2002). Recent advances in nursing ...

An Analysis of Nursing Care Concepts

individuals belief, values, and membership in family and social groups. Brodie (2001) asserts that it is the hallmark of professio...

Ethics and Legalities of Health Care

to believe that his strategy for paying the hospitals bill for treatment to be a sound one. He had sued the local trolley line (a...

Reyes, Meininger, Liehr, Chan, and Muelle's 2004 Study 'Anger in Adolescents: Sex, Ethnicity, Age Differences, and Psychometric Properties'

respond to stress differently than do others. Current medical theory suggests that individuals who evidence a more exaggerated re...

Proposal Regarding Nursing Homes and Elder Incontinence

Medical Center, 2002). It is estimated that 13 to 18 million adults suffer from incontinence at some time or other (Mercy Medical...

Article Critique/Nursing Home Patients

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

Low Anterior Sigmoid Resection

and Cox, 2001; p. 375). The ascending colon, which is approximately six inches long, extends upward to the hepatic flexure....

Review of an Article on Nursing Research

to examine whether womens social roles mediate the impact of heart surgery on their psychological well-being" (Plach and Heidrich,...

Data Collection Questions from Week Four

if they are simple and straightforward. These patient data records will be replaced weekly, and each will contain a weeks worth o...

Nursing, Diabetes, and 3 Research Articles

with a study sample of six female diabetes nurse specialists, who worked with a multidisciplinary team offering comprehensive diab...

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 ...

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...

Coping Strategies & Influences on Student Nurse

study intervention that addresses strategies for helping student nurses cope with high levels of stress. This studys findings stre...