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

many professionals feel is attached to a strong desire to do the right thing. When organizations are engaging in unethical practic...

one technologically based communication modality-e-mail, a web-based forum, and so forth- involving patients and health care provi...

care model is highly useful with the elderly and those recovering from surgery or illness. Self care is not an issue that enters ...

affect patient outcomes (Finley, 2004). The degree to which Mr. Smith will be affected by the stroke, and, indeed, his very survi...

ensuring that a significant proportion of stroke victims survive and retain their independence. This is important not only from th...

to nonadherence to medication in the mentally ill elderly is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connot...

result in septic shock. Of that 200,000, approximately half result in death due to the onset of sepsis and the subsequent septic ...

emotional (limbic) memories are affected, and the last group of memories to be affected as the "motor or more reptilian memories,"...

care system. In 2004, Dr. David Brailer, pursuant to an presidential executive order, announced the Strategic Plan for Health Inf...

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

recognized categories for APNs within this state (TBoN, 2006). The scope of practice for Tennessee APNs includes the legal abili...

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

for my patients. Personal philosophy of nursing: Tourville and Ingalls (2003) offer a fascinating and very apt analogy to descri...

is not an expectation based on fact or knowledge, it is based on hope. 2. Clinicians personal and professional values Personal ...

to individuals connected by a blood tie. However, to be a "family," members must "live in close contact, care for one another, an...

States would need to assure education and training were available for qualified individuals. One thing all states could do that ...

part of their academic preparation knowledge that pertains to how "to initiate, plan and manage change" (Elser, McClanahan and Gre...

by practicing nurses in this area. Both of the authors also hold advanced degrees: one holds a Masters degree and teaches at a co...

practitioner surgeries are run by practice nurses, only making referrals to other members of the healthcare team when required, Th...

a total of more than $4,000 for every citizen of the country (Grumbach and Bodenheimer, 1994). Plagued by overspending for years,...

implementing the treatment regimen. 5. collaborating with other health care providers in determining the appropriate health care f...

billions in additional health care cost. Likewise, Houston, et al (2002) substantiate that contraction of nosocomial pneumonia co...

This research team selected homeless adolescents as the focus for their study. While, in general, the concept that informed parent...

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

the balloon, and certain gestures, were definite responses to the environment and evidence of consciousness, but the doctors disag...

either ill or injured, and therefore requires the aid of health care professionals. One might also feel that "person" underscores ...

have otherwise been a lingering existence in private homes or disreputable hospitals. Inasmuch as the nurse is "temporarily the c...

In addition to these operational benefits, the state in which databases exist today enable organizations to use the data contained...

real-time applications, patient records are updated instantly as information is added to them. Thus the physician making rounds h...