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ICU Patients and Communication

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

Patient Consent Issues

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

Counseling Style Determination

client, the therapist must first determine what the personality structure of the client is. Now, trying to determine "personality ...

Pediatric Patient Catheterization

Sometimes just the opposite can occur and the bladder does not empty like it should, if at all. Other problems that seem to be ass...

Heart Disease Clinical Summary

later adding informational pamphlets discussing heart disease in the aging. My first meeting with Ms. Bross largely was informati...

Patient Dignity and Concept Analysis

need for theory in accomplishing the tasks of direct patient care. There are routines and required protocols to follow, but the p...

Families and the Effects of Prolonged Illness

for the family. Finances have been destroyed with assets being wiped out, the stress such illness creates in the other family memb...

Wait Time for Patients For Receiving Copies of Records

some studies that address waiting times that patients invest in seeing physicians, however. McCarthy, McGee and OBoyle (2000) pro...

Safety and Health

also places emphasis on the role of ongoing training and self improvement. Even if we look at commercial models for the way an org...

Leadership and Management in Nursing

management, in recent years, has been quite extensive. This body of empirical evidence and commentary largely supports the concept...

Mental Illness and Confidentiality Issues

In seven pages this paper explores the Tarasoff v. Regents Of The University of California case in this consideration of mental il...

Nurses & Health Care Policy

the women who have traditionally filled nursing positions will undoubtedly continue to pursue other professional opportunities tha...

Local Park Study

In five pages this paper presents a multifaceted study of Santa Ynez, California's NIRA park and campground....

PATIENT SAFETY AND CONSUMER-DIRECTED HEALTH CARE

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

LEADERSHIP: FOUNDATION OF A PATIENT SAFETY CULTURE

a part of the healthcare culture. Technology, however, has led to some wonderful things in healthcare, from the polio vacci...

Proposed Legislation Patient Safety Act of 2004

legal errors (Fackelmann, 2002). Furthermore, the AMA study demonstrated that there is a direct statistical connection between th...

Patient Safety and DMAIC

This research paper/essay pertains to a hospital improvement project that involved medication administration and involved the DMAI...

Adidas and Nike

to internal events, Nike is a growing company and looking to enter more markets. Several areas came online, including Russia and a...

Assessing Harley Davidson as an Investment

for as a result of increasing costs, the cost of goods sold in 2007 was 63.1% of the revenue, compared to 61.5% in 2006. In additi...

Infection Sentinel Event Outcomes

myriad. They can range from poorly designed equipment to overwork; poor communication to lack of safeguards (Kohn, Corrigan and D...

California's Emergency Response Plan

would be called OES or the Office of Emergency Services ("Californias Emergency Response Plan," 2003). OES is an office that helps...

Nursing Shortage In The United States: Causes, Effects And Solutions

Budget cutbacks, burnout and lack of student enrollment have precluded sufficient staffing in many critical areas of healthcare. ...

Health Care: Ethical Dilemma

HIV-positive nurses being a threat to patients and other health care workers. Research clearly supports the reality of the situat...

Herbal Medicine/What Nurses Should Know

not as drugs, which means that these remedies do not undergo the rigorous testing that is required for prescription medicines (He...

Contemporary Nursing Ethics

this development and left orders for both analgesia and sedation, which helped at first, but became less effective as the hours pa...

Roy’s Adaptation Model & Cardiac Care

As described by Araich (2001), four nursing strategies effectively summarize how a critical care nurse can use the RAM to aid a ca...

Antibiotic Prophylaxis, Surgery & Accountability

in resistant strains of bacteria (Plonczynski, 2005). This situation suggests that changes in antibiotic prophylactic procedures ...

BNP Assays (Article Summary)

predicting mortality and morbidity. Authors provide a section to explain and explore the existence of natriuretic peptides. Anoth...

Roy’s Adaptation Model: A Case Study

particular condition because he at least is aware of his condition. About one-half of those with this disease are not as fortunat...

Pediatric Asthma Case Management

an obstruction of the airway and can involved any or all of the following factors: "smooth muscle bronchoconstriction, mucous secr...