YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Essays 1501 - 1530
(Wichowski, 2004). This certainly appeared to be the case for Elvis, as he complained about the "Croatian people" in his head who ...
of a unified health care organization that included both Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH...
the written record. The patient also adamantly refuses a recommended treatment, but he is only 16 years old. The parents go along ...
we all must personally face. Dealing with the death of a loved one, however, can be considerably more difficult than facing the f...
controversial issues and decide accordingly the best way to appease both the law and the public; its decision about whether to inc...
that is, whether it will spread (metastasize) and what symptoms that it is likely to cause (Cancer diagnosis, 2005). The term "sec...
the needs of the dying and her work indicates that there are times when the most meaningful communication that a nurse can offer i...
often a factor in nurse/doctor communication. Nurses can bring power to nurse/doctor interchange by harnessing the power of lang...
seclusion is not new. The American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA) reports that as early as the mid-nineteenth century ther...
the KA familys ability to utilize US healthcare systems (Donnelly, 2005). KA parents experience with schizophrenia in their chil...
In ten pages this research paper presents a literature review on team nursing as a way of increasing patient satisfaction. Thirte...
In five pages this research study on Alzheimer's patients and caregivers' long term intervention is subjected to a content critiqu...
Appropriate treatment decisions and planning require this level of honest communication. The decision to disclose shouldnt revolv...
this development and left orders for both analgesia and sedation, which helped at first, but became less effective as the hours pa...
not as drugs, which means that these remedies do not undergo the rigorous testing that is required for prescription medicines (He...
background and knowledge to evaluate when there is a need to consult a transcultural nurse specialist, as these specially trained ...
HIV-positive nurses being a threat to patients and other health care workers. Research clearly supports the reality of the situat...
mineral supplement" every day (Ungvarski, 1996). Empirical evidence shows that there is a "synergistic and interactive relations...
nurses should understand these patients thoroughly, "who they are, where they live and with whom, their current health status and ...
intensive care unit (ICU) (Scholle and Mininni, 2006, p. 37). Bedside nurses are encouraged in many hospitals to make a MET call...
pay for treatment that is not covered by insurance and families without insurance are not required to pay (SJCRH, 2008). Furthermo...
More than 25 percent of patients with heart failure are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge and half are readmi...
As we live longer, we are subject to acquiring one or more chronic illnesses, some of which come with advancing age. Older age ran...
MIS Guidelines? Certainly the publication addresses resource utilization, but does it specifically address creation of a new unit...
Budget cutbacks, burnout and lack of student enrollment have precluded sufficient staffing in many critical areas of healthcare. ...
anxiety or address a family problem, they may prefer faith-based counseling simply because its in a language that fits them and th...
This study employed a prospective pre-test and a post-test randomized control trial design and a sample group of 53 senior adults ...
leaders should facilitate their development of trans-cultural nursing skills such as being able to assess patterns that are eviden...
route of accessible health care to growing numbers of Americans. Harvards Clayton Christensen has long preached the gospel ...
pilot study was performed first, in which the research tested the methodology. This also involved developing an interview schedule...