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paying salaries). Patients are going to generally go to hospitals where their doctors are - though when it comes to emergencies or...

and theoretical Framework: The instrument designed for use in this study drew heavily upon the survey developed by Cole, et al, wh...

to take expensive prescription medications as prescribed. This acerbates medical conditions and results in increases in acuity lev...

proven to be the principal reason for nosocomial infections, that is, infections that are acquired after hospital admittance. Impo...

Study participants ranged from 20 to 79 years and noted that the mere exchange of information is not enough to accomplish the desi...

in the U.S. stands at 8.5 percent to over 14 percent, depending on the specific area of specialty (Letvak and Buck, 2008), by 2020...

are told what they should do by their physicians. For example, if a patient visits a doctor and due to age parameters, he or she w...

by persistent discomfort with ones sex" (Meyenburg, 1999, p. 305). This gender identification with the opposite sex typically com...

had pushed through legislation mandating mandatory medical error reporting (Hosford, 2008). Additionally, and perhaps more importa...

the situation, the charge nurse might take a number of different actions in response to this information. For example, the charge ...

blank slate for the imaginings of those around him, particularly Hana. Myth "crosses international boundaries and offers apparentl...

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

a peaceful death among terminal patients. HSBs of specific groups of any size - whether large or small - are positively related t...

points out, medicalization is a process that defines a problem in terms of the practitioners perspective and cultural biases, rath...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

movement disorders, such as Parkinsons and dystonia. This procedure was initially developed in 1987 in France (Song, 2006). This a...

and Blood Institute, 2007). Zardi and colleagues (2008) referred to this procedure as the "gold standard" (p. 48) for assessing th...

is not an expectation based on fact or knowledge, it is based on hope. 2. Clinicians personal and professional values Personal ...

there is very little information about predisposes people to these episodes (Swann, 2006). Therefore, for the most part, nursing a...

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

an overview of the issues that surround massage and the literature that support the fact that it is an effective approach in the t...

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

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

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

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