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al, 2009). The theory came from "the results of studies accomplished by the author along her Doctorate in Clinic and Social Psycho...

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

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...

Agency for Healthcare and Quality as "doing the right thing, at the right time, in the right way, for the right person-and having ...

Leadership and management while related are two distinctively different concepts. Leadership can be discerned from simply manageme...

is designed to ensure that "Patients have access to needed care" and that healthcare providers are "free to practice medicine with...

"how they relate to others. It influences the way patients respond to medical services and preventive interventions and impacts th...

The purpose - indeed the entire study - does not specifically identify variables that can be labeled as independent. It is not an...

patient (Seidel, 2004). This author also states that effective communication is something that can and must be learned (Seidel, 2...

within the students healthcare institution. The discussion concludes with a proposal of possible solution and suggested conclusion...

healthcare services to senior citizens, which is an at-risk population in this country. One helping approach for people with dis...

of literature about biomedical ethics relative to patient autonomy. This type of autonomy is limited, at best, with managed health...

culturally competent care. Well examine what the literature has to say about such standards and, with this background, and an unde...

2010). The first provision of the ANA code specifies that nurses should show "compassion and respect" in regards to the "dignity, ...

The New York City Police Commissioner was successful in reducing crime by targeting high crime areas and allocating resources to t...

This 16 page paper outlines the elements that need to change for improving quality of nursing care. This paper explains that the p...

meals to all Orthodox Jewish patients should be investigated by hospital administrators if they are not already in place. Furtherm...

the fever? Was it related to an infection in the surgical wound? Was the patient developing atelectasis and pneumonia? Or, was the...

the supply by 2010 (Kleinman and Saccomano, 2006). Traditional nursing care models, such as primary nursing, are founded on the su...

left to deny anything connected with the loss, either before or after the fact. Those left behind also need to acknowledge the me...

In five pages this research paper discusses quality care standard maintenance and the role played by nurse managers in sustaining ...

In three pages this research paper discusses how humor can be a modality that assists nurses in patient care as well as self care....

prepared for this role" (McKenna, 1997, p. 87). Perhaps most significant of all was Florence Nightingales belief that env...

that is, whether it will spread (metastasize) and what symptoms that it is likely to cause (Cancer diagnosis, 2005). The term "sec...

reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...

In 1992, for example, this organization issued a mandate that all hospital chief executive officers become familiar with continuou...

This paper consists of five pages and considers partnership and care as they relate to individuals with learning disabilities with...

The role of public and private entities in health care is not a new debate. This paper details the Consolidated Omnibus Resolution...

has left the facility and has gone home to the comforts of home in order to spend the last days, weeks or months of their life in ...

In seventeen pages this research paper examines the U.S. system of health care in terms of the empirical studies that indicate the...