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

2010). The first provision of the ANA code specifies that nurses should show "compassion and respect" in regards to the "dignity, ...

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

the family are high, exacerbated by the death of Davids father. Feelings Gibbs reflective cycle will usually focus in the feelin...

The writer looks at a scenario where a home care health organization wants to introduce an electronic patient records system. The ...

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

among the classic symptoms of diabetic ketoacidosis. The pathophysiology of these symptoms results from the buildup in ketones due...

perception of powerlessness is a condition that can affects virtually all individuals at some point in their lives (Dryer, 2006). ...

to any injury to the head that impairs subsequent brain functioning. While mild TBI can appear to have left the individual unimpai...

the various roles and responsibilities that the specialty involves, they share the common quality that the nursing process is inhe...

or the frequency level of falls in terms of overall patient numbers. For quality improvement to take place it is necessary not onl...

there are at least six characteristics common to all organizations that others can label as being attuned to learning from events ...

Patient adherence to a prescribed chemotherapy is particularly crucial to the goal of positive patient outcomes in regards to trea...

of four (Bernstein, 2000). Its use also reduces hospitalizations by 59 percent and yields a benefit to cost ratio of seven to one,...

it though learning. The different models can be seen as based on learning styles, how information is communicated and also how t...

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

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...

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

graduate nursing hires (Truman, 2004, p. 45). The novice nurses participate in six hours of classroom instruction, plus thirty hou...

life in prison for patient death (Jacko & Sears, 2003). HIPAA is comprised of five major titles that are applicable to each provi...

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

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

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 ...

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

nursing skill levels and patient mix" (Minimum staff levels, 2004, p. 33). However, the researchers found that a "greater total nu...

care home agencies also offer data on each service that is provided by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and acco...

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

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