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

situation. As a provider of care, it is the role of the community health nurse to address the needs of Centerville adolescents i...

patient (Seidel, 2004). This author also states that effective communication is something that can and must be learned (Seidel, 2...

workers (Center for American Progress, 2007). Something must be done. Universal health care has been proposed by many politicians...

As stated, the pet food industry already generates more than $53 billion in sales; accessories and nonessential services (i.e., ex...

healthcare services to senior citizens, which is an at-risk population in this country. One helping approach for people with dis...

of literature about biomedical ethics relative to patient autonomy. This type of autonomy is limited, at best, with managed health...

begins with "orientation," which is a period in which the nurse and the patient become acquainted. The relationship then proceeds ...

agony? Medicine was not always the assembly line it is today. According to Pescosolido and Boyer, there were three events that ch...

(Jennings, 2005). The reason for the huge increases in health care costs is not the insurance companies, Jennings found, but the f...

because they do not have the means to get medical attention (Center for American Progress, 2007). Health care costs seem to rise e...

birth, it is critical to interact with the infant, to touch and cuddle and talk with the infant, to provide a safe and nurturing e...

conversation with MaryAlice Mowry," 2003). Many people do not realize that government benefits aligned with disabilities would be ...

be vulnerable to abuse or neglect for a variety of reasons and in a variety of situations, which range from home care to care in r...

the rate of such hospital mergers. One of these trends was the "phenomenon of Columbia/HCA," a for-profit hospital system that man...

In most states, regulations concerning private managed care companies and programs are put forth primarily by the states insurance...

important to understanding the impact of interventions. One of the major problems noted by a number of theorists is that the exte...

a specialized body of knowledge, skills and experience that enables these nurses to offer a high standard of care to critically il...

prepared for this role" (McKenna, 1997, p. 87). Perhaps most significant of all was Florence Nightingales belief that env...

that is, whether it will spread (metastasize) and what symptoms that it is likely to cause (Cancer diagnosis, 2005). The term "sec...

patient to re-establish the self-care capacity. Orems model defines a "self-care deficit" as when a patients condition interferes ...

in a Scottish farmhouse that is more than 10 miles from the nearest village and more than 50 miles from the nearest hospital. Jame...

hallways of hospitals, it does seem to contain a great deal of minority workers. Yet, it is not clear who are in managerial roles ...

markets that can be quite lucrative. The industry can expect greater numbers of patients in the future, resulting both from demog...

physical and social limits, functional components, and feedback mechanisms" (Reicherter and Billek-Sawhney, 2003). With regard t...

nursing care over the past decade and how do they support the argument for a continuum of educational practices for nursing profes...

In five pages this research paper discusses quality care standard maintenance and the role played by nurse managers in sustaining ...

twentieth century, with accusations that it has failed to live up to the demands placed upon it by the ever-growing population, ef...

would have no need for surgical gloves, but a hospital or a stand-alone outpatient surgery clinic has need for both. A mate...

points out that patients with comorbidities have additional needs that serve to increase the complexity of care. Various models of...