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Policies in Long Term Care

to improve the system will grow, raising key policy issues" that cover all dimensions of the political landscape (Feder, Komisar, ...

OBRA 87: Achieving its Potential

facilities that it was intended to achieve. Looking at more specific indicators, however, one can see from the literature review ...

Floor Planning for Health Care Facilities

station is situated just before the facility branches into two main hallways, along either side of which are situated the twelve e...

Pain Management and End-of-Life Care

and those who support effective pain management were praised for their capacity to "promote policies which create conditions where...

Healthcare in America

Anderson and Squires (2010) maintained that the life expectancy at birth in this country is 77.8 years, placing it at the bottom q...

An Abstract for a Study on CAUTI in Acute Care

essential to reducing the prevalence of CAUTIs. Research Support A range of supportive research will be utilized to develop...

The Florida Foster Care System

complex and emotionally charged nature events that often place young children into foster care, as system in place to do the busin...

Recommendations for Improving Quality of Care Through OBRA 87

ensure a complete implementation of improved infection control standards at all facilities. In order to overcome this deficiency, ...

An Article Review on Community Acquired Pneumonia

utilized 184 consecutive patients. All of the patients who were admitted were provided with informed consent. The researche...

The Creation of a Testing Measure for the Topic of Healthcare Reform

that mental disorders may have genetic, neurobiological and behavioral causes is helpful in legitimizing the application of method...

Blood Pressure Control

Intervention Speaker Notes: The first learning objective that was addressed was to review and analyze peer-reviewed journals on t...

Nursing Questions

with other organizations in order to achieve health objectives. For example, community-based resources may be used in conjunction...

Long-Term Care and the Need for Positive Leadership

Research in the area of nursing management often considers the characteristics of leaders and the impacts for specific outcomes in...

The Issue of Unresponsiveness of Physicians in the Hospital Setting

In a paper of four pages, the writer considers the issue of the unresponsive patient, especially as it impacts patient care. This...

A Pre-Operative Nursing Care Case Study

male smoker, who was admitted for surgery for a right inguinal hernia. At 99 kgs and just 153 cm tall, Mr. Taylors Body Mass Inde...

The Availability of Acute Care in Foreign Countries

of the largest acute care facilities sees a Serbian facility with 3,500 beds at the top of the list ("Europes 10 Largest Acute Car...

Orem, Watson/Caring in their Theories

prompts nurses to cultivate the "conscious intent to preserve wholeness; potentiate healing; and preserve dignity, integrity and l...

Stem Cell Research and Telemedicine

and scientific research, general regulations prohibiting the cloning of humans for reproductive purposes have been applied interna...

Changing the Views on Mental Health Care

is dedicated to the memory of Linda Anderson, research writer, mother and friend....

A Study of Methods to Prevent Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections

reducing the prevalence of CAUTIs. Research Support A range of supportive research will be utilized to develop the evidence...

Application Of Watson’s Care Model in the Clinical Setting

well with Watsons care model. Watson has seven assumptions, the first is that care is demonstrated in an interpersonal level (Geor...

Sexuality and Personal Beliefs

This has been emphasized through very public opposition to gay marriage and the national debate over the rights of same-sex partne...

Technology Improves Emergency Rooms

their resources and materials but emergency rooms do not seem to be able to keep track of equipment or even patients. One issue we...

Medication Communication/Concept Analysis using Orem's Theory

between a patient and a doctor in a community practice setting" (Manias, 2010, p. 934). However, this scenario is no longer the mo...

Nursing and the Philosophy of Care

activity of "caring moments". Caring moments are instances wherein a nurse spends a certain amount of uninterrupted devoted time w...

Issues in Implementing Change for a Healthcare Company

The writer looks at a scenario where a home care health organization wants to introduce an electronic patient records system. The ...

Electronic Medical Records - Business Incentives and Ethical Concerns

information flows between healthcare facilities; the bottom line is that legislation will have to be concerned not simply with pro...

Nursing Home Injuries: A Review of the Literature

number of patients, in other words) and the incidence of injury at nursing homes, making this correlation a worthwhile problem to ...

An Interview with a Nurse Manager

Adams maintained that her experiences with nursing care and the structure of nursing services has changed in the past decade, and ...

Making Improvements in the Nursing Agency

provided in their own home. Services offered include, but are not limited to, general nursing services, physical and occupational ...