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Hispanics and Diabetes Management

Have you had any experience in helping a friend or family member manage diabetes? The patient replied that she was not aware of...

Federal Health Care Legislation

included doctors, hospitals, lab work, dentistry and nursing (The history of Medicare). In addition, medical insurance for the nee...

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 ...

Older Adult Emergency Department Care

This paper pertains to the care of elderly patients in emergency departments (EDs). Three pages in length, four sources are cited....

Hospital Technology

The purpose of technology in hospitals is to increase efficiency and accuracy of their healthcare systems and to improve patient c...

Data Collection Tools/Patient Safety

This research paper addresses selection of data collection and other relevant tools for use in a quality improvement project that...

Treatment and Jehovah's Witnesses, An Ethical Dilemma

This paper pertains to an ethical dilemma faced by hospital nurses caring for patients who are Jehovah's Witnesses. Adherent of th...

Overview Major Health Organization

This paper discusses a major health care organization and its diversity. Several topics are discussed: data regarding diversity, m...

Assisting Bedridden Elderly Patients: An Ergonomic Concern

This paper is on a primary care provider's concerns regarding the risk to a client's health and safety due to having to lift heavy...

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 ...

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...

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...

Colostomy Teaching

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

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...

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...

Impact of Managed Care

that the government did not intend when establishing Medicare in the 1960s. At present, Medicare virtually rules all of Ame...

Article Summary on High Blood Pressure

differences between these two classifications are then described and three factors that are believe to influence the formation of ...

Technology Improves Emergency Rooms

their resources and materials but emergency rooms do not seem to be able to keep track of equipment or even patients. One issue we...

Application Of Watson’s Care Model in the Clinical Setting

well with Watsons care model. Watson has seven assumptions, the first is that care is demonstrated in an interpersonal level (Geor...

Primary Prevention in Diabetic Care

can be easily determined via the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) and by testing fasting plasma glucose (FPG), as these tests ar...

Issues in Implementing Change for a Healthcare Company

The writer looks at a scenario where a home care health organization wants to introduce an electronic patient records system. The ...

Diabetic Ketoacidosis, A Case Study

among the classic symptoms of diabetic ketoacidosis. The pathophysiology of these symptoms results from the buildup in ketones due...

Practicum Example for a Nursing Course

of falls in elderly chronic patients at that home. 1c. Discuss findings with supervisor/mentor. 1a. The creation of a detailed...

Feedback from a Mentor on Presentation Proposing a Fall Prevention Program

The writer provides some feedback that may have been provided by a mentor, looking at a presentation given by the student. The pr...

Advanced Practice Nursing Roles

the various roles and responsibilities that the specialty involves, they share the common quality that the nursing process is inhe...

Abstract for a Fall Intervention Policy Proposal

increased; the incidence rate has risen from 15% to 35%. The problem is the increase in the rate of falls and a need to reduce the...

Addressing the Needs of Women Veterans

examination of the describes the bills intended goals and outcomes regarding their achievement of greater social equality and reso...