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Device-Associated Nosocomial Infection in an ICU

This paper gives an overview of a study that took place in a Polish ICU and pertained to the rate of device-associated nosocomial ...

The Use of Presurgical Washing

& Wann-Hansson, 2010). The use of evidence-based best practice protocols introduced preoperatively by nursing staff can help to r...

Hearing Loss and Surgical Interventions

In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at hearing loss and surgical interventions. Bone conduction implants and cochlear impl...

Total Joint Patients, Decreasing Infections

This research paper pertains to decreasing surgical site infections in total joint arthroplasty patients. The writer draws on rese...

Surgical Procedure Known As Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

the patient engage in more physical activity (Bypass surgery..., 2005). Chronic conditions that can increase the patients risk of ...

Med-Surge Nursing

nurse working on a medical unit at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center. According to Kodet, the only thing ...

Diabetic Education/New Nurses

Sometimes the ability to perform foot self-exams for follow-up education or acute illness (Nettles, 2005, p. 44). Additionally, ...

Antibiotic Prophylaxis, Surgery & Accountability

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

Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP)

factors that have been identified include "diabetes, alcoholism, malnutrition, history of antibiotic or corticosteroid use, decrea...

A Nursing Teaching Plan/Hand Scrub and Sterile Technique

to learn in regards to any nursing topic, I am particularly inspired to learn more about this topic so that I can use this inform...

The Occupation of Surgical Nurse Director

highly trained nursing professionals. 2.State the salary range for the Surgical Nurse Director in the geographic area in which yo...

MRSA Crisis, Management Issues

This research paper discusses management of MRSA infection within a medical/surgical unit. Three pages in length, three sources ar...

Suggestions for a Clinical Journal Entry

to answer Mary or look at her. Mary continued to talk soothingly, rubbing Angelas back lightly as she did so. She talked about how...

Behavioral Health Management, Case Managers and Primary Care Physicians

to treatment; and "significant benefit restrictions for treating serious mental illnesses and addictions," have prompted advocates...

Primary Care Surgical Clinic/Indigent Population

these surgeries can proceed more efficiently and effectively, and that case management results in cost savings, as well as improve...

Gender Identity: The Role of Hormones and Environment

intervention to sculpt the individual into a better reflection of a particular sex in terms of their external genitalia. Parents ...

Nursing and Technology

In two pages a journal article is reviewed in which a Computerlink research study is summarized in terms of its surgical services'...

Research on Patterns of Hospital Staffing

In two pages a research study is summarized as it involves CUF and UUF patterns of hospital staffing, how cost effective they are,...

Surgical and Medical Patients and the Value of Sleep

In two pages this paper summarizes and reviews a journal article in which the importance of sleep for medical patients is argued b...

A Surgincal Team Change Hypothetical Case

The procedures of a surgical team are presented in a hypothetical case that consists of 7 pages. These procedures are described w...

VR

In eight pages this paper examines the technology associated with virtual reality in an overview of its many applications with exa...

Medical Technology and Computers

In seven pages medicine and its computer history are considered with such concepts as telemedicine, computer aided surgery, and 'v...

Overview of a Caesarean Section Birth

In eleven pages a Caesarean surgical procedure is examined in a consideration of its pros and cons. Eight sources are cited in th...

Standard Coronary Bypass and MIDCAB Benefits

In eight pages this literature review emphasizes the benefits of the minimally invasive MIDCAB direct coronary bypass surgical pro...

Nursing Journal Article 'Assessing Sensory Blockade With Alcohol & Pinprick After Subarachnoid Block' II

In three pages this paper considers a journal article regarding surgical preparation of older men for prostate surgery. There is ...

LASIK, Acronym for Laser in Situ Keratomileusis

In eight pages this report examines this surgical technique in order to correct farsightedness, nearsightedness, and occasionally ...

Description of Cataract Surgery

In eleven pages the ways in which modern cataract surgery has evolved is considered in terms of its history, various surgical tech...

Physiology and Anatomy of Carotid Artery Disease

In ten pages a comprehensive literature review considers the physiology and primary surgical treatments of carotid artery disease ...

19th Century Russia, Medicine, and Health

which is before the communists would seize control, how did Russian peasants fare? It should be noted that the years mentioned de...

Tutorial on Prostheses and Latest Developments

changed from leather to plastic. This made the prosthetic a great deal lighter (Fox, 2001). Advances continued to be made in pros...