SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Truth in Patient Care

Essays 1291 - 1320

Hospital Information Systems: Identifying Pathways

to transfer data recorded by the monitors by telephone to the clinic. Nurses orchestrate this data transfer and conduct an initia...

Mentally Ill Elderly/Syphilis Screening

A 5 page research paper that offers a summary of evidence relating STD incidence in older populations and how whether nor this con...

Disease Management/Hypertension

management (DM) concept Disease management (DM) is defined as a "systematic clinical improvement process," which addresses both ...

Nursing: Article Reviews

some determining the study was inconclusive, others saying certain interventions should be made universal and still others stating...

Using PrOACT

moving onto the objectives, looking at the alternatives and considering the consequences and the trade offs. In this paper we will...

Music As Sedation for Children

was evaluated using the Beth Israel Medical Center flow sheet sedation scale (Loewy, et al, 2006). If, after 30 minutes, the patie...

Lesson Plan/Insulin Administration

include an understanding of how insulin functions to control glucose levels and the interaction between variables that can affect ...

Case Study/COPD

not fully reversible, is treatable. This term describes a progressive airflow limitation that typically caused by an inflammatory ...

A Psychology Case Study

Disorder 300.3 Axis II: Schizoid Personality Disorder 301.20 Axis III: Abuse of caffeine. Axis IV: Stressors related to compl...

Therapeutic Hypothermia

report on her search process, as several of the articles she provided are included in this review. This writer/tutor accessed the ...

Assessing an Investment for a Hospital

investment in the software program has a number of benefits as well as some challenges. The development of a system where patient ...

Temperature Reduction in Perioperative Therapy

meperidine and skin surface warming on shivering." AORN Journal July 2007: 113+. General OneFile. Web. 29 Aug. 2011....

Cranberry and the Treatment of Urinary Tract Infections

This paper concludes that because at least one study questions its effectiveness, cranberry should probably not be the only treatm...

Contesting a Will on Grounds of Mental Capacity

the family home, where Jill still resided, $150,000 in bank deposits as well as some antiques and personal chattels to her grandch...

Two Article Summaries

effectiveness of a computer-based access that informed primary care physicians of all prescriptions dispensed to specific patients...

Alzheimer's Disease

("Three stages," 2011, p. 1465). Mild cognitive impairment characterizes the second stage of AD ("Three stages," 2011). The thre...

Computer Tools and Inappropriate Prescribing for the Elderly

The incidence of inappropriate medication prescriptions issued to elderly individuals is estimated to be between 12 and 40 percent...

Report Proposing the Adoption of Electronic Health Records

additional costs of transcribing existing active patient records. The implementation will also incur additional operating costs,...

Spiritual Nursing

information. These guidelines are also based on this researchers finding that self-care promotes the pediatric patients spiritual ...

OpEd: Right of Refusal

on some theological idea that only God can end life. We wouldnt allow a dog or cat to suffer; why then do we force humans to do so...

Ovulation Induction

in the study they had undergone three treatments using Clomiphene alone, with no results in relationship to a pregnancy (Ghafourza...

Bipolar Disorder II And Substance Abuse

that may trigger a Bipolar incident, many of these also trigger using substances. Oliver (2007) identified twelve different "Trigg...

Should New Drugs Be Labelled As ‘New’ To Indicate A Higher Risk Than Established Dugs?

funds used to ensure drug safety focused in the approval of new drugs. After a drug is approved there are few quality reports unde...

Skills Needed by a Forensic Nurse

McAndrew, 2006). With communication skills there are includes skills of listening as well as tact as essential to facilitate effec...

Nursing & ED Overcrowding

York found that, in the past, ambulance diversions were a seasonal event. However, more recent research finds that diversional sta...

Nursing Case Mgmt./Asthma

this condition. If the student does not have asthma, the student may feel motivated to help this population because of he/she rea...

Applying Virginia Henderson's Nursing Theory

patient, to occupy thoughts, behaviors and other patterns that provide specific indicators of how to approach healing. In this pa...

Addiction Transfer Disorder & Gastric Bypass Surgery

addicted to something else such as alcohol, gambling or compulsive shopping (Spencer, 2006). The realization that this is a proble...

Nurse Staffing Ratios

system," since the institution of mandated nursing ratios, and also that data shows California hospitals have not only been able t...

Maslow And Nursing

Aesthetic, the need for beauty, order and symmetry (Huitt, 2004). 7. Self-actualization is a plateau not all people reach. At this...