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balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...

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

Tom. Jennifer flatly states that she has been locked out of the house at night in punishment for objecting to being sent to her ro...

Also on hospital property is an 88-bed nursing center that the hospital also owns and operates. Conway Medical Center provides ge...

classifies the stroke patients needs in four domains: 1) medical/surgical issues; 2) mental status/emotion/coping behaviors; 3) ph...

Critically-Care nurses, 1989 in Nursing Management, 1999, p. 38). This abbreviated version of AACN nursing standards was located...

care is the guiding concept behind the Childrens Hospital of Philadelphias (CHOP) commitment to values that place mutual trust and...

controlled trials, systematic reviews, meta analyses, clearly defined hypothesis, and a definitive and strong conclusion. If one ...

and respiration. Her parents were told that she would never recover, but that her body could be kept alive indefinitely through ar...

the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...

respected academically and is in the business of training future health care providers as it serves the local community. All "att...

aptly named: the health information manager for integration, the clinical data specialist, the patient information coordinator, th...

net profit margins provide management with measures of how well the company is doing what it intends to do. Investors may be inte...

operations of nursing" (Horan, Doran and Timmins, 2004, p. 30). This is broken down into three basic categories: 1) wholly compen...

caring as the very definition of what constitutes personal values from a nursing perspective (2003). Koerner (1996), likewise, e...

part of their academic preparation knowledge that pertains to how "to initiate, plan and manage change" (Elser, McClanahan and Gre...

carcinoma in situ (DCIS). This is also known as "intraductal carcinoma or non-invasive breast cancer" (Breast Cancer, 2004; p. PG...

majority, if not all, Medicare part D plans will offer incentives for participants to choose generic drugs. It is believed that "g...

caring; 2. every human culture has lay (generic, folk or indigenous) care knowledge and practices and usually some professional ca...

with sudden flashbacks intruding on thoughts (Fagan and Freme, 2004). Other symptoms include: an exaggerated startle reflex, sleep...

at the past and the philosophies that have created the present. Resnick and Hall (1998) point out that the current educational s...

course, there is no need to go into depth, as an entire course does, when speaking of a general health course. A general health co...

A 7 page client profile that discusses nursing care for an elderly client with degenerative brain disease and offers a research su...

of dying and that some of this research indicated significant differences in this awareness. This leads into a discussion of what ...

by the caring physical presence of this nurse in her last remaining hours. However, the way in which this case turned out saw the ...

E-Health resources are utilized not just by the healthcare establishment itself but also by patients and consumers (HIMSS, 2006; E...

interfaces with the a new computerized patient order entry system. Therapists use tablets at the patient bedside, which enhances m...

of materials for aiding with this preparation and it is recommended that the child should practice wearing a stoma bag, which aids...

quality of life to a term relative to happiness. This result is less measurable than the authors had hoped, and so they proposed ...

actual sexual violence (Pateman, 2002). Students further learn how to set sexual limits and the need to respect the limits of othe...