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Adverse Drug Reaction Among Elderly Patients: Impact Upon Costs And Length Of Hospital Stay

population want to be able to take care of themselves, yet they are rarely given the tools with which to accomplish this objective...

Frequent Nocturnal Urination, Older Male Patient

This paper focuses on the problem of nocturia, which refers to frequent nighttime urination. Assessment, causes, and management ar...

Review of "Outcomes of Therapeutic Massage for Hospitalized Cancer Patients"

Smith, et al. (2002) explain that their purpose "was to investigate the effects of therapeutic massage on selected outcomes relate...

Home Care Senior Citizen Patients and Chronic Undertreatment

2. constant monitoring for potential complications 3. the willingness to utilize both pharmacological and nonpharmacologi...

Senior Citizen Surgery Patients and Risk Assessment

planning for postoperative care (Dunn 36). For example, if a patient suffers from poor lung function, that patient is at greater r...

The Villa San Girolamo Setting of The English Patient

true despite the fact that it has been hurt by war. It stands. The people are in some way in a sense of a denial. The author goe...

Nursing Home Patients And Their Vulnerabilities During Disasters

food, clean water and - most important for some people who did not survive - electricity to keep their life-sustaining equipment r...

Coping With Spinal Cord Injury

leaving him paralyzed from his neck down. It seems to take a famous person to contract a disease or suffer such devastating injuri...

Massachusetts General Hospital and its Patient Care Delivery Model

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

Proposed Legislation Patient Safety Act of 2004

legal errors (Fackelmann, 2002). Furthermore, the AMA study demonstrated that there is a direct statistical connection between th...

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

There is no question that death plays a major role in this story, as evidenced not only by all the dying patients but also through...

Australian Patient with Unstable Angina and Nursing Actions

a specific number or percentage of Australian citizens who have or may be suffering from unstable angina. Part of the reason for ...

COPD Patient Mechanical Ventilation Case Study

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

Multiple Sclerosis Client Case Study Patient Assessment

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...

Patient and Family Challenges of Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury

be on the alert for any changes in blood pressure, urinary tract, and body temperature (Jackson, 2000). Muscles must be exercised ...

Single Patient Designs v. Group Designs

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

Five Patients by Michael Crichton

presented with a kind of awe and hope in terms of the medical industry. We are also provided with a look at interns and the ent...

Health Care Workers and Treating Patients Who Inflict Self Injury

for further self-harm to occur. Pembrooke and Smith recommend, for example, that triage staff assume that even minor injuries repr...

Patient Safety and DMAIC

This research paper/essay pertains to a hospital improvement project that involved medication administration and involved the DMAI...

Elderly Patients/Insulin Administration

This paper pertains to an EBP project proposal that involves a shift from SSI (sliding scale insulin) to the basal-bolus approach....

Consumers and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

This paper considers the relative impact of Obamacare. Texans in particular have not always benefited from the federal mandate on...

Patients Going to Latin America for Treatment

Medical and dental costs have soared in the United States. Insurance plans are sometimes tricky in their language and they do not ...

Nutritional Needs of Intubated Patient, COPD

This research paper describes COPD, a case study, and then presents recommendations for meeting his nutritional needs. Five pages ...

Patient-Doctor Conflicts

This essay reports the case of a depressed teenager who attempted suicide. The attending physician is not his regular doctor. The ...

Interventions for Patients

This essay provides information and insight on different psychotherapeutic interventions for different mental illnesses. Psychodyn...

Cancer Patients and Nutrition

This research paper/essay offers a discussion of the importance of nutrition and its effects on cancer survivors. Three pages in l...

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, however, mandated electronic health records for all Medicare and Medicaid pati...

Elderly Patients and Medication for Asthma

medication are adequate, symptoms are controlled and most asthma-related problems are avoided (Francis, 2004). There are two maj...

Terri Schiavo Case and Withholding Nutrition in Comatose Patients

controversial issues and decide accordingly the best way to appease both the law and the public; its decision about whether to inc...

Arguing Against Nurses Participating in the Death of Patients and the Christine Busalacchi Case

Rural Nurses, represented by registered nurse and practicing attorney Jacqulyn Hall, filed an amici curiae (friends of the court) ...