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the difficulties and losses inherent with aging. The assumption is often made that, with age comes transcendental wisdom, but res...

there was a problem of infections in long-term care facilities and in hospitals (Dimond, 1994). These are called nosocomial infect...

In seven pages American and Hazda elderly women are contrasted and compared regarding social position, community involvement, and ...

avoidance, such as creating a buddy system, which pairs elderly neighbors with each other. Buddies check on one another and accomp...

By addressing this need, which includes rehabilitation designed to aid her mobility, nursing intervention can also have a positive...

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

population want to be able to take care of themselves, yet they are rarely given the tools with which to accomplish this objective...

This paper pertains to an EBP project proposal that involves a shift from SSI (sliding scale insulin) to the basal-bolus approach....

In five pages this paper examines senior citizens, pain, and their inability oftentimes to verbally express the pain they are feel...

medication are adequate, symptoms are controlled and most asthma-related problems are avoided (Francis, 2004). There are two maj...

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

parents of children with cancer regarding the needs of siblings and on the support that was offered by hospital staff. The results...

of angina, but no indication of muscle damage or clotting (as would be the case in coronary thrombosis). It should also be...

criteria in an advanced directive or the individuals cognizance at the time of their decision. The first task that presents...

is simply to require that their nursing staff make up for understaffing by working mandatory overtime on a more or less permanent ...

patients were approached and volunteered to serve in focus groups to discuss the trust issue. The patients ranged in age from 26 ...

In six pages this essay presents and argument against Dr. Jack Kevorkian's practice of assisting terminally ill patients to commit...

In five pages this paper argues that the intent of Dr. Jack Kevorkian was to perform human experimentation and not to assist termi...

In eleven pages this research paper examines how assisting a patient that has a problem with chemical dependency is assessed with ...

way, before his mind too, was gone." As a nurse, this presented me with what I felt were two conflicting goals. On the one hand, ...

not to endure that process or cause their loved ones to have to experience it with them. The impact of the loss of personal autono...

a matter that is automatically seen as euthanasia. If we consider the case of Diane Petty we may see why it was that she sought t...

In three pages an arrangement that competently assists relatives of patients in critical care is proposed. Two sources are cited ...

The writer presents a paper which looks at the implementation of electronic patient records for a company providing medical care f...

why this population may be seen as particularly vulnerable. The paper will then look in detail at the service offered, and then co...

or another, enter into ethical quandaries as a result of their regular operations. This is because virtually all organizational ac...

The aim is to change the NHS culture to an information culture that will maximise recourses through an appropriate infrastructure....

2006, pp. 669-683). Based on this, the researchers found that hip fractures were greatly reduced in the women taking the supplemen...

trying to improve this situation. It seems important to spend some time on this aspect of the topic in light of the fact that it d...

is, a high level of "energy and vitality," contributes significantly to quality of life for the elderly (Spirduso, Francis and Mac...