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Teenagers and Pallative Care

have changed considerably over the last century. This change is associated with a number of factors, the most prominent being our...

Concepts of Self Care

to the wide-ranging aspect of nursing than merely administering medicine; in fact, the myriad components that ultimately comprise ...

Relationship Between Patient Mechanical Ventilation and Oral Hygiene

billions in additional health care cost. Likewise, Houston, et al (2002) substantiate that contraction of nosocomial pneumonia co...

Ethical Issues in Mental Health Care Practice

This research team selected homeless adolescents as the focus for their study. While, in general, the concept that informed parent...

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...

Nursing at the End of Life

by the caring physical presence of this nurse in her last remaining hours. However, the way in which this case turned out saw the ...

Ida J. Orlando And Hildegard E. Peplau: Theoretical Application To Eating Disorders

the inherent differences between models. Ultimately, an individual chooses a nursing model that is based upon and compatible with...

Mandatory Staffing Ratios

between those who supported mandatory staffing ratios, based on research such as the study conducted by Linda Aiken, and the stanc...

Article Critique/Perceptions of Palliative Care

(in English) between the years 1989 and 2004. The extent of the literature review appears to be sufficient to support the research...

Article Critique/Awareness of Impending Death

of dying and that some of this research indicated significant differences in this awareness. This leads into a discussion of what ...

Truth in Patient Care

"become a universal law" (Kant, 1993, p. 30). In other words, Kants main criteria for action is that the individual should conside...

ICU Delirium

hospital stays (Cole and Soucy, 2003). While all ICU patients have serious and potentially life-threatening conditions, those ov...

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...

Hospital Database Use

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

Frigidaire Case Study

their marketing efforts. In addition, two other attempts to introduce front loaders, one in the 1940s and the other in 1981, both ...

Colostomy Teaching

of materials for aiding with this preparation and it is recommended that the child should practice wearing a stoma bag, which aids...

Enhancing Total Quality Management at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Guam

quite a leap to effectively apply its principles to service industries, but TQM is as much at home in health care as it is in manu...

Frigidaire and the Front-Loader Dilemma

little) influence on government decisions, its thinking here - waiting for the DOE to pass a law that would help its marketing eff...

Positioning the Frigidaire Front-Loader

the product space"; "Collecting information from a sample of customers about their perceptions of each product on the relevant att...

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...

Hospital Information Systems

interfaces with the a new computerized patient order entry system. Therapists use tablets at the patient bedside, which enhances m...

PATIENT SAFETY AND CONSUMER-DIRECTED HEALTH CARE

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

Dementia

emotional (limbic) memories are affected, and the last group of memories to be affected as the "motor or more reptilian memories,"...

U.S. Health Care System

care system. In 2004, Dr. David Brailer, pursuant to an presidential executive order, announced the Strategic Plan for Health Inf...

Hospital Medicare Reimbursement

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

Cassatt and “Mother About to Wash Her Sleepy Child

the Worlds Columbian Exposition, which was held in Chicago in 1893 (LACMA). While her depictions of mothers and children represent...

Global and Multi-Country Strategies

difference may be seen in the level of target market that may be available within the country, due to the economic development st...

Living in More's Utopia

hours in the morning and three hours in the afternoon. No one is except from this requirement, neither ministers nor magistrates n...

Needs Assessment for an Administrator of Patient Care Services for Women's Healthcare Services

often impacts the health and well-being of other members in a family (Miami Valley Hospital, 2004). As a result, the Womens Healt...