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and more nurses are standing at the front lines of managed care, acting somewhat as liaison between the patient and managed care o...

that make use of color, but even these efforts have not typically met with good response by patients or hospital administrators (S...

can be tricky. There are always hypochondriacs or the medically educated who do not necessarily agree with the doctors findings. P...

biochemistry. I recognized the wonder of chemistry, but what I failed to recognize at the time was the solid practice it gave me ...

Acquiescing to the constraints imposed by organizational and professional structure does not mean that the nurse has no alternativ...

which focused on group dynamics, and has shifted from this tailor made, or customized approach. One of the biggest reasons is that...

EMDR therapists assert that the treatment is suitable for a wide range of disorders; that it is much quicker than other forms of...

patient, but it could serve to avoid having the same thing happen again in the future. Other Facts, Options and Consequences ...

a reputation for efficiency and effectiveness, as well see later on in this paper. The hospital was named in honor of Edwa...

less likely to have advanced directives (Hanson and Rodgman, 1996). This same study reported the use of advanced directives incre...

the mid-1990s and later. The hospitals purpose in implementing the PCDM was to decrease costs of both operation and labor, while ...

mechanism it can be expected that this shift in the accountability and transparency needs to be indicates within case law. It can...

are licensed individuals who go through at least one year of formal education in addition to clinical instruction, and the focus o...

after which he began drinking again. After this, the patient demonstrated a desire to poison himself, and this resulted in his ow...

Mr. Schiavo finally was allowed the right to have his wifes feeding tube removed, the right to allow her to die of lack of nutrien...

what is tantamount to a death sentence, because of the "uncertain definition of suicide in the context of a terminal illness" (Mar...

Crystalloids and colloids are coming into use for trauma cases where fluids are being used for resuscitation. This paper gives a g...

of revenues, and it is likely lower. Allowing 35 percent food cost, however, the cost of operations including labor should not ex...

to identify and to relate in terms of actual patient care. Ida Jean Orlando created a conceptual view of the nursing process whic...

authors isolated the following recurring elements, in order of their statistical appearance in the definitions [1]: Violence, forc...

and John noted a resistance to mechanical ventilation as a part of the treatment plan. John stated in one of his few lucid period...

and that maintaining the most stable possible environment has been found to help alleviate the impact of such behaviours: it might...

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...

In ten pages medical negligence is considered with such cases as 1957's Bolam v. Friern HMC and 1997's Bolitho v. Hackney HA refer...

much sugar remains in the blood and too little energy is transferred to other cells. The diabetic needs to take externally adminis...

provide the physician interface. Beyond these duties are the operational and administrative duties required in this type of facil...

desire to increase revenue to allow further development and facilitate increased benefits to the users. The errors may not be as s...

student--in respect to hospitalization. One question that also arises is whether the culture of the non-English speaking patient p...

2000). Even as recently as just a couple of decades ago, conditions such as cramps, pregnancy nausea and even labor pains were oft...

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