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Elderly Patients and Minimizing Physiological and Psychosocial Tracheal Tube Stresses

In five pages this paper discusses the postoperative stresses that are represented by tracheal tubes particularly as they involve ...

Patient Case Study

edema in MS bilateral lower extremities suggests diminished cardiac function is occurring. MS was assessed with potential previou...

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...

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....

Developing a Care Plan

prior to being admitted to the care facility, it is possible that these needs are not being met. There is also the religious need ...

Fall Prevention in the Elderly in Home Care

percent of that total population lose their ability to walk (Tonarelli, 2010). Hip injuries and falls of any kind can reduce the ...

Environmental Analysis of HHH Home Health Care Company's Strategic Plan

care. Internal Environment Rising Costs As other types of health care providers seek to control their own costs, home healt...

Case Study Analysis of Patient Confidentiality

the written record. The patient also adamantly refuses a recommended treatment, but he is only 16 years old. The parents go along ...

Evaluating a Nursing Educational Program

The writer looks at the way in which a nursing program may be evaluated to provide instant results. The tool advocated is a self c...

Review of Achievements in the Development and Implementation of Nursing Program to Reduce Falls

The writer reviews an intervention program designed by the student to assess and reduce risks with the aim of preventing falls in ...

Ethics: Case Study of a Patient on Dialysis

This research paper concerns the case of Mrs. B., a woman on dialysis who states her intention to discontinue treatment. The ethic...

Drug Interactions among the Elderly

This research paper describes 3 prescription, non-prescriptive and alternative/complementary drugs that can be used to address dep...

Failures in Fall Prevention Practices

The writer looks at the best practice strategies to reduce fall rates in elderly community based patients. The research based bet ...

Anxiety in a Diabetic Patient, A Case Study

This essay draws on research to report a hypothetical case study, which concerns therapy utilized to aid a woman with type 2 diabe...

Falls and the Retired Population - An Annotated Bibliography

The writer reviews and present the main theme of fifteen articles that would be useful in a project to assess the impact that fal...

OpEd: Right of Refusal

on some theological idea that only God can end life. We wouldnt allow a dog or cat to suffer; why then do we force humans to do so...

Concept Mapping Versus Care Plans/A Proposed Study

the fever? Was it related to an infection in the surgical wound? Was the patient developing atelectasis and pneumonia? Or, was the...

Dehydration & Older Patient

dehydrated? Has literature simply made you aware of this potential problem? You might say something like: "Considering the dire co...

Falls and Senior Citizen Patients

that are often incurred as a natural part of the aging process (Wang and Wollin, 2004). These changes include "impaired vision and...

Patient Treatment Plan

She surveyed all of the independent living facilities in the local area and chose one; her grown children arranged and conducted t...

Right to Live and Medical Ethics

Study Andrew is a 68-year-old male who was admitted to a medical intensive care unit after experiencing a stroke. On life ...

Considerin a Medicare Fraud Case

responsible for their actions of over or under treating patients, and when can one say that the fine line is too sketchy? A case s...

Student Supplied Case Study on Moral Pastoral Practice

worries that God is angry with her, that maybe He hates her. She feels she has destroyed her relationship with God. She even asks ...

Psychologists George Kelly and Sigmund Freud

simple desires for food or sex, neurotic compulsions, or the motives of an artist or scientist. And yet, we are often driven to de...

Red Genital Lesions and Patient Diagnosis

how it was initiated. This means that contacting partners, or figuring out who might have given one the disease, can become rather...

Patient and Relationship Development, Illness Treatment and Coping

In six pages Erik Erikson's identity development stages are examined and then applied to a case study that involves a young cancer...

A Case Study in Alcoholism, Diagnosis and Treatment

after which he began drinking again. After this, the patient demonstrated a desire to poison himself, and this resulted in his ow...

Emergency Room Decision Making

attack if irreparable harm and indeed loss of life is to be prevented (Isenstein, 1999). The statistics regarding coronar...

Geriatrics and Orthostasis

blood pressure within the veins drops, too. The volume of the blood is what maintains the pressure on the vein walls. As a result,...

Emergency Diagnosis and Intervention Relating to Myocardial Infarction

The statistics regarding coronary artery disease make it obvious that emergency medical services are critical in saving the lives ...