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In two pages cardiovascular disease and the complications it represents for patients suffering from Type II diabetes are discussed...

regarded as creating obligations on others to help her exercise her rights. An inherent theme that is implied in all of the questi...

grew from an average of seven in 1993 to an average of eleven in 2000 to an average of twelve in 2004 (Critser, 2007). At the tim...

that it is impossible for a mere individual to resist the monolithic nature of an authoritarian state, also can be interpreted on ...

at any given time. More than a decade ago, Bigelow and Arndt (1995) suspected value in TQM in the hospital setting but wrote, "Th...

an overview of the issues that surround massage and the literature that support the fact that it is an effective approach in the t...

the patient die (1975). Consider the case of a patient with terminal throat cancer, who is in terrible pain which cannot successfu...

there is very little information about predisposes people to these episodes (Swann, 2006). Therefore, for the most part, nursing a...

Visiting Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Tulsa. Linda W. Cardillo is a doctoral student in the School of...

Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Tulsa. Linda W. Cardillo is a doctoral student in the School of Journali...

is not an expectation based on fact or knowledge, it is based on hope. 2. Clinicians personal and professional values Personal ...

paying salaries). Patients are going to generally go to hospitals where their doctors are - though when it comes to emergencies or...

to take expensive prescription medications as prescribed. This acerbates medical conditions and results in increases in acuity lev...

the situation, the charge nurse might take a number of different actions in response to this information. For example, the charge ...

in the U.S. stands at 8.5 percent to over 14 percent, depending on the specific area of specialty (Letvak and Buck, 2008), by 2020...

are told what they should do by their physicians. For example, if a patient visits a doctor and due to age parameters, he or she w...

Study participants ranged from 20 to 79 years and noted that the mere exchange of information is not enough to accomplish the desi...

proven to be the principal reason for nosocomial infections, that is, infections that are acquired after hospital admittance. Impo...

hypoglycemia require different nursing responses. Mild hypoglycemia, which is defined by the symptoms listed above and a glucose r...

workplace is a critical component of occupational rehabilitation (Morrison, 1993). In one study it was found that employees of inj...

"encouragement of facing probl4ems/fears, support of efforts to master problems/ears, affective experiencing/catharsis" (Coady 15)...

there are those that are relevant to childrens protection as well, such as confidentiality. For example, during a recent visit tw...

points out, medicalization is a process that defines a problem in terms of the practitioners perspective and cultural biases, rath...

a peaceful death among terminal patients. HSBs of specific groups of any size - whether large or small - are positively related t...

and Blood Institute, 2007). Zardi and colleagues (2008) referred to this procedure as the "gold standard" (p. 48) for assessing th...

movement disorders, such as Parkinsons and dystonia. This procedure was initially developed in 1987 in France (Song, 2006). This a...

to base their arguments on more spiritual and ethereal ground, such as the idea that a persons life ends when God chooses to end i...

in place for some time, and none of the fears surrounding it have ever materialized (Seale, 2006). Research shows that 171 people ...

cancer affects both the man and his life partner. In most cases, study designs addressing quality of life issues for prostate canc...

and theoretical Framework: The instrument designed for use in this study drew heavily upon the survey developed by Cole, et al, wh...