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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...

of dying and that some of this research indicated significant differences in this awareness. This leads into a discussion of what ...

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

results from alcohol or drug misuse and which interferes with professional judgment and the delivery of safe, high quality care" (...

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...

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...

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...

of the site is that it connects to numerous opportunities for continuing education and there is a page dedicated to this purpose. ...

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

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...

interfaces with the a new computerized patient order entry system. Therapists use tablets at the patient bedside, which enhances m...

therapeutic manner (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003). This relationship may refer to a single individual, or the "person" may be a sma...

Over twice as many people have been infected with HIV than was initially projected; over 42 million people have been infected sinc...

risen in the US population, there has been corresponding increase in the incidence of diabetes mellitus, which is associated with ...

to the passage of the California law (Tevington, 2011). Currently, Connecticut, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Texas an...

was a patient protection initiative which incorporated a requirement for there to be set nasty patient ratios in healthcare system...

nurse to patient ratio in California. In 1992 and 1993 the California Nurses Association has sponsored the Democratic Senator Jack...

the case study, is important for planning a safe and effective rehabilitation program (Craven and Hirnle, 2007). People who experi...

They found differences in these calculations. The major key learning point in this article is that any institution can always get...

protocol. Rosenberg et al (2005) and Larson et al (2006) detail the pursuit toward getting the elderly population in step with be...

nursing skill levels and patient mix" (Minimum staff levels, 2004, p. 33). However, the researchers found that a "greater total nu...

literature and also "analysis of ICD-9-CM codes," which were reviewed by a "clinician panel," offering specific IQs that address i...

the American healthcare system, the debate concerning whether or not states should implement mandated nurse-to-patient ratios rema...

of the hospital nursing staff could be nurses with a bachelors degree or higher and that this can have an impact on patient outcom...