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in the study had suffered at least one urinary tract infection in the preceding 24 months. Wild (et al, 2010, p309) found an even ...

This essay provides a student with a hypothetical guide to discussing interviews with RN, a nurse practitioner and a patient conce...

Treating non responsive patients presents challenges. This paper looks at the approach to treatment and sequence which should be u...

This essay focuses on Watson's nursing theory of caring. It reports and explains the meta-paradigms, caratives, and how nurses dev...

To deal with the HIV crisis many lesser and middle income countries had to develop innovative and cost effective strategies to de...

This paper considers the role of patients' religion and how it should impact nursing care. The writer focuses on the way in whic...

The treatments Breuer and Freud developed for treating hysteria had an impact on the development of psychoanalysis. This is discu...

The paper is a literature review on the topic of schizophrenia and the impact and influence that the condition has on patients and...

This 3 page paper provides an overview of how Evidence-based practice is used to treat substance abuse disorders. This paper inclu...

Bipolar Disorder dramatically changes a person's life and quality of life. It affects every part of the patient's life. There is v...

All of the results of this reengineering, however, were not as positive. The process had not taken into consideration the fact th...

consent must be made through a signed legal document (Retsas and Forrester, 1995). In all cases consent must be freely and volunt...

of her post-polio syndrome left her unable to completely void her urine, which in turn led to the development of further UTIs. Da...

has been estimated that between 49 and 83 percent of all elderly adults experience pain on a regular basis (Briggs, 2003). Desbi...

made of cotton or cotton blends, which absorb rather than repel fluids. One of the most important precautions that a nurse can t...

and retention" (Andersen, 2002, p. 603). This then should be the first priority: to design a study that will accrue and retain ...

over their blood glucose levels; and (3) encouraging continuous improvement in nursing knowledge and patient education. The progr...

issue via conceptual analysis, inasmuch as Walker and Avant provide specific steps that allow one to wholly define the ambiguous a...

to a nursing facility, it should also be understood that each situation is unique. When both the family members and the staff of t...

and certainly health care facilities. In essence, the minimum requirements of nursing dictate that: * the nurse remain cognizant ...

"ICU syndrome" (Elliot and Wright, 1999). In its milder form, ICU syndrome was characterized by the presence of confusion and memo...

level of problems for inpatients was 20.9% compared to only 8.4% for outpatients (Wilson et al, 2002). When asked to rate the serv...

clear that the patient is taking part in a decision-making process, and not simply signing a form. In practical terms, of course, ...

facility grew to over 1,000 beds and the addition of a many barracks-style buildings. The design for a new facility began in 1942 ...

the near future, however. This presents potentially severe consequences for the economics of elder care. The stakeholders in this...

The Clinical Workstation Application of the 3M(tm) Care Innovation Expert Applications system focuses on providing clinicians and ...

private sector work force (SBA, Statistics, 2003). The following reflects a the broad categories of SBAs programs for small busi...

is meant to assist people with problems of daily living. The counselor will help the person understand what is happening in his/he...

operating room to recovery, the tracking of patient information becomes an imperative part of this process (Beyea, Hicks and Becke...

This nursing practicum proposal focuses on the mandated nurse-to-patient ratios that have been implemented in California. The writ...