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Review of Nurses Experiences Care for Patients with Prehypertension

The writer reviews a research article provided by the student, which uses a narrative methodology in order to examine the experien...

Music Therapy and Cancer Patients

In twelve pages a literature review is included in this hypothetical study that considers the effects and potential benefits of mu...

Dementia Patient Aggression Treated Nonpharmacologically

patients, and as such may not be as acceptable or desirable (Saltzman, 1985). Other limiting factors in the use of drugs c...

Ethical Considerations Regarding Terminal Illness and Palliative Care

one, we become constantly reacquainted with the subject. The way that we deal with death varies on both an individual and a colle...

Throughput and Management Strategies, Emergency Departments

This research paper addresses the issue of patient throughput in overcrowded Emergency Departments (EDs). Management and throughpu...

Patient Falls, Patient Safety and Communication

This paper is made up of three sections, with each section pertaining to a significant hospital administration issue. These topics...

Terminally Ill Patients and Nursing Care

the needs of the dying and her work indicates that there are times when the most meaningful communication that a nurse can offer i...

An Article on Cancer Patients' Psychological Interventions Examined

and retention" (Andersen, 2002, p. 603). This then should be the first priority: to design a study that will accrue and retain ...

Literature Review on a Cancer Patient's Emotional Needs

It seems that within the context of the work, there is little compassion shown for the protagonist with the exception of one oncol...

Legal and Medical Issues Associated with a Patient's 'Right to Die'

providers and also provide a well-balanced outline about the issues involved in a patients "right to die" (Hendin, Foley and White...

Nursing Home Management Interview Summary

every 30 minutes for protection, safety and placement. This was a two-part citation in that there is no evidence that staff...

Etiology and Pathophysiology of Lung Cancer

cancer being observed (Wynder, Goodman and Hoffman, 1985). They also suggest that schools should place "major emphasis" on program...

UK General Ward and Mental Health Ward Risk Management Comparison

(Briggs, 2003). At the lower levels of the hierarchy there is also a very clear and specified role to accept "personal responsibil...

Hospital Database Use

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

Literature Review on Operating Room Patients' Identification

operating room to recovery, the tracking of patient information becomes an imperative part of this process (Beyea, Hicks and Becke...

CC vs. Med-Surg Units/Job Satisfaction

(Domrose, 2001). However, current trends have developed that have greatly expanded the scope of med-surg nursing, which includes a...

Rehabilitation and Acute Stroke Units

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

Neonatal Circumcision and Pain Management and Assessment

still exists as to the necessity and long-term benefits of circumcision. Virtually all agree that if circumcision is to be done, ...

Medical Doctors and Nurse Practitioners Conflict Management

the elderly. The Nurse Practitioner announced in its July 2000 issue that reports of the AMAs petition had been received as...

Chronic Pain Management and Nursing Philosophy

stronger. The authors make no comment on whether any of the individuals were concerned about becoming dependent on their pa...

Treatment to Sustain Life and Patient's Refusal

best way to appease both the law and the public; its dynamic decision about whether to include doctor-assisted suicide and volunta...

Examination of Beneficence/For the Patient's Good

long after all signs of consciousness have ceased. Is this "good"? Is this beneficent? The news tells us of parents confronting me...

Adolescence: Identity Formation

very pressure it places upon the youth. There is a tremendous burden for teens to perform within their respective peer groups, wh...

Palahniuk/Fight Club

267). In other words, scholarship points out that men today are faced with a plethora of conflicting societal messages. They are...

Patient’s Possessions & Cultural Competency

arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways and all other products of human work and thought..." (Purnell, 2005, p. 7). It is the eth...

Hip Fracture and Stress

Plus Program, that was implemented in the study performed by Resnick and colleagues was found, among other benefits, to improve af...

Patients’ Bill of Rights

is designed to ensure that "Patients have access to needed care" and that healthcare providers are "free to practice medicine with...

Treating Osteoporosis

and typically occurs by the time a person reaches their 70s. In the U.S., roughly 1.5 million fractures are caused by osteoporosis...

Patient Simulators/Human Patients in Nursing Education

age. Therefore, the patient population is increasing. This factor is also influenced by the fact that that the huge lump in the Am...

Pediatric Asthma Case Management

an obstruction of the airway and can involved any or all of the following factors: "smooth muscle bronchoconstriction, mucous secr...