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Reducing Falls Rates - Presentation of a Proposal

The paper is a presentation made up 12 slides and notes for the speaker. The presentation outlines a protocol for a new multifact...

Management of Diabetic Patients and Nurse Practitioner Practice

risen in the US population, there has been corresponding increase in the incidence of diabetes mellitus, which is associated with ...

Diabetes Study , an Article Analysis

This research paper offers an overview of a study, Jansink, et al (2010), which investigated the obstacles to bringing about effec...

A Case Study of a Schizophrenic Client

This research paper offers a case study that the writer argues represents a schizophrenic patient. The paper discusses the rationa...

Addressing Issues in the HCAHPS

Systems (HCAHPS) is a patient satisfaction survey and assessment of the level of quality care provided by hospitals and healthcare...

Type and Incidence of Falls in Patients of a Home Care Nursing Agency

only injuries in 53% of the falls recorded. It should be noted that for other types of injury there were some cross overs, for exa...

The NHS as a Model of Healthcare

by many the local and national government ought to have a more important role in the healthcare of the nations. As early as 1900 t...

HEALTH CARE ACT AND MENTAL HEALTH

this rhetoric was how the act would impact the millions of people in the United States who suffer from emotional or physical disor...

Nurses Using Evidenced-Based Practices

Nursing has evolved over the decades primarily as a result of research (Director, 2009). Nurses recognize a problem and introduce ...

Hospital Patient Safety

for patient safety identified these specific goals. For obvious reasons, these are copied directly from the Commissions Web page. ...

HMO Incentives for Doctors

2008). Incentive programs can actually have very positive outcomes if they are used correctly and ethically (Sabin, 2008). In so d...

Importance of Health Care Communication

to adopt healthy living habits (Schiavo, 2007). The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) says health communication is ...

Quality Indicators and Nurse/Patient Ratios

literature and also "analysis of ICD-9-CM codes," which were reviewed by a "clinician panel," offering specific IQs that address i...

Managed Care and its Impact on Poor/Minority Patient Care

Concepts, theories, principles and practices in managed care and the health services industry in regards to social, economic, and ...

Oral History vs the Clinical Record

story behind Lennox Castle Hospital. Colin Sprowl, a man that worked over thirty years at the hospital as a male nurse, provides ...

MANAGING HEALTHCARE FOR THE UNINSURED

The problem is that the system is broken when it comes to getting appropriate healthcare to the uninsured. Even if Congress passes...

END-OF-LIFE PLANNING, NURSING AND GUIDANCE

to provide adult individuals, at the time of inpatient admission (or enrollment) information about state laws rights concerning ad...

The Need for Quicker Lab Results

whether or not a patient complaining of chest pains is having or has had a heart attack (American Clinical Laboratory Association,...

A Historical Analysis of EMTALA

some schools do not receive funding if they hold religious classes for example or do not abide by affirmative action. Similarly, E...

Quality Assurance and Nursing Management

In five pages this research paper discusses quality care standard maintenance and the role played by nurse managers in sustaining ...

Nursing and Distance Education

a video that presents the patients symptoms and are presented with the question "What is the most likely differential diagnosis ba...

Impact of Managed Care

that the government did not intend when establishing Medicare in the 1960s. At present, Medicare virtually rules all of Ame...

Persistent Vegetative State Patients and Ethical Decision Making

the balloon, and certain gestures, were definite responses to the environment and evidence of consciousness, but the doctors disag...

Hinduism and Health Care

the differences noted above, Hindus are often immersed within the same cultural elements as are non-Hindus, from outward appearanc...

Acme Hospital Information Technology Project Plan Synthesis

cost billions to bring a new drug to market, and the developer has patent protection only for relatively few years. To recoup its...

Real-Time Information in the Hospital Setting

real-time applications, patient records are updated instantly as information is added to them. Thus the physician making rounds h...

Sameroff's Transactional Model Of Development: Association With Cognitive Development

Whether typical in nature or fraught with learning difficulties, Sameroff (1975a) contends the extent to which parental involvemen...

Wit & Palliative Care

also a former student of Vivians is now in the rather awkward position of also being one of her doctors, as he is an intern and re...

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...

Hospital Database Use

In addition to these operational benefits, the state in which databases exist today enable organizations to use the data contained...