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Kolcaba and Holistic Care

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

Mixed Economy of Care Improves Quality of Life For the Elderly

there were no caregiver present to assist the elderly individual during the day and evening, the frail older person frequently fou...

Psychiatric Nursing Alternatives

they visited, and some tended to visit fairly frequently (Demling et al, 2002). Patients in general were very positive about thei...

An Analysis on an Article About Caring and Science

lawyers, uncaring nurses and pedophile clergy is to cut back on scientific research--a tenuous conclusion at best. Where the art...

Social Systems Theory and Foster Care

physical and social limits, functional components, and feedback mechanisms" (Reicherter and Billek-Sawhney, 2003). With regard t...

A Critique of Two Ariticles Pertaining to Cardiac Step Down Units

it is discovered that her death was called by a massive pulmonary embolism. Two years later, her husband files suit against the n...

Nursing Home Care and the Effects of Mandatory Continuation of Nursing Education

nursing care over the past decade and how do they support the argument for a continuum of educational practices for nursing profes...

Health Care and Material Management

would have no need for surgical gloves, but a hospital or a stand-alone outpatient surgery clinic has need for both. A mate...

A Case Study of the Use of Collaborative Processes for a Woman with Multiple Comorbidities

points out that patients with comorbidities have additional needs that serve to increase the complexity of care. Various models of...

Care Barriers

in a Scottish farmhouse that is more than 10 miles from the nearest village and more than 50 miles from the nearest hospital. Jame...

Diversity in Occupations in Health Care

hallways of hospitals, it does seem to contain a great deal of minority workers. Yet, it is not clear who are in managerial roles ...

The Economic Impact on Home Health Issues

markets that can be quite lucrative. The industry can expect greater numbers of patients in the future, resulting both from demog...

Palliative Care and the Theory of Dorothea Orem

patient to re-establish the self-care capacity. Orems model defines a "self-care deficit" as when a patients condition interferes ...

Cancer Patients and Nursing

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

Primary Health Care Trusts and Environmental Factors

personnel needs of the PCT and develop a strategic development plan so that the needs of the PCT are met with the ultimate aim of ...

System of Health Care in Turkey

issues difficult to address, in that there is often an interchange of duties as a means by which to compensate for the sometimes-i...

Advanced Practice Nursing, the Self Care Deficit Model of Dorothea Orem, and Urinary Incontinence

development of nurse-operated continence centers, which provide conservative management for UI (Bernier, 2002). Continence nurses...

Health Care Governance - Three Studies

All of these studies reflect empirical studies of hospital populations in an effort to determine how changes in the healthcare env...

Software for Health Information Management

The Clinical Workstation Application of the 3M(tm) Care Innovation Expert Applications system focuses on providing clinicians and ...

Health Care and the Internet

who are suffering from chronic ailments such as congestive heart failure, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), asthma and...

Overview of Intensive Care Nursing

a good nurse ... Id spend more time with their families. If I were a good nurse, I would ..." (Williams, 2001; p. 24ac2)....

The Importance of Well Written and Presented Educational Materials in Patient Wellness

health information is pivotal to the efforts of practitioners in promoting health, changing behaviors and attitudes, and preventin...

Critical Incident Analysis in Nurse Management

and certainly health care facilities. In essence, the minimum requirements of nursing dictate that: * the nurse remain cognizant ...

Health and Gender Inequality

2000). Even as recently as just a couple of decades ago, conditions such as cramps, pregnancy nausea and even labor pains were oft...

Iceland and Health Care Delivery

primarily through government funding supported by tax receipts. Icelands national health care system "receives 85% of its funding...

Adolescent Type I Diabetes Care Plan

much sugar remains in the blood and too little energy is transferred to other cells. The diabetic needs to take externally adminis...

Heath Care Equal Access Support

advance at the time, but it created the scenario in which those receiving health care were not those paying for health care. As c...

The Importance of Care In Nursing

the mountains in California, ride a horse in the Grand Canyon, volunteer in a cancer center, finish painting his house, attend his...

Jacobs, Marmor and Oberlander's The Political Paradox of Rationing and the State Health Plan of Oregon

subject of rationing health care. The authors look at the years 1989 through 1995 and laws which were put in place in Oregon to ad...