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Quality Improvement in Health Care

than nurses, executives and managers at those hospitals. St. Lukes Medical Center St. Lukes is a 154-bed hospital located in S...

Causes of Viral Pneumonia and How It Can Be Prevented

Viral pneumonia is the focus of this paper consisting of seven pages which includes its causes, treatment, and how it can be preve...

UTIs Pressure Sores Pneumonia in the Elderly

higher risk for UTIs than others. Risks include older age, poor hygiene, and/or poor hydration. Two of the greatest risks can be p...

Pneumonia Care. Article Review

points: In this informative article, Holcomb begins by first differentiating between hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP), which is p...

An Article Review on Community Acquired Pneumonia

utilized 184 consecutive patients. All of the patients who were admitted were provided with informed consent. The researche...

Ethical Position Paper on Advance Directives, Ethical Decision-Making and Utilitarianism

wishes, she would remain on life support. This scenario has several ethical implications from the nursing or medical professional...

Medical Evaluation Steps Regarding Coexisting Conditions and Chest Pain

professional must carefully evaluate this patient using all that is known about each of these conditions. Pain such as that being...

Overview of Pneumonia

or Aspergillus often come in contact with the patient through their inhalation of contaminated aerosols. We now know that an infe...

Quality Improvement Initiative and Pneumonia Vaccinations

effective in the frail elderly than in healthy, young adults (Ament, Fedson and Christie, 2001). As many as half of the elderly r...

Pneumonia and Tool for Data Collection

"yes" response to a question requiring clarification takes the user directly to the point where that clarification can be entered....

An Article on Pneumonia Prevention Critiqued

pneumonia is inherent to the research design. Therefore, the researchers begin their article with a summation of empirical evidenc...

Relationship Between Patient Mechanical Ventilation and Oral Hygiene

billions in additional health care cost. Likewise, Houston, et al (2002) substantiate that contraction of nosocomial pneumonia co...

Desert Hearts by Donna Deitch and Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule

In five pages this report compares Donna Deitch's 1985 film to Jane Rule's 1964 novel. There are no secondary sources listed....

Summary of Zeitoun et al's Ventilator Associated Pneumonia Study

factor in regards to pulmonary infection. Reliability concerns The authors state that in their health center, nursing staff rece...

Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP)

factors that have been identified include "diabetes, alcoholism, malnutrition, history of antibiotic or corticosteroid use, decrea...

Is Revenge Ever Justified?

many of the same ideas as do his earlier counterparts, espousing the need for an overall quest for ultimate peace and contentment....

Health Benefits Of Red Wine

consuming a drink and lower risk of heart disease (Mukamal and Rimm, 2001). That same controversy tends to surround what is refer...

"The Life Of An Amorous Woman" - Dirty Profession, Pure Heart

out the way one may have originally intended; as such, a life perceived as less enlightened still encourages - and even requires -...

“Other” in Shakespeare’s Othello and Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

to be successful. Iago does seem to make an impact on Roderigo at one point, however, when Roderigo claims imagines Desdemona and ...

Colonization and Self-Discovery: Shakespeare and Conrad

without power, who plays the role of the colonizer. He is a teacher and a controller of the story itself, thus he serves as a symb...

Analysis: "The Tell Tale Heart"

the murder has no real basis in reality; the old man had never hurt him, and he has no desire to rob him: "Object there was none. ...

Heart of Darkness: Duality

understanding that perhaps all humanity possesses this inherently dark nature. In one excerpt from the novel one can see this st...

Cardiomyopathy

number of heart attacks is that heart disease is associated with the wide scale accumulation of gunk in the walls of the arteries ...

Scarlet Letter/Sin of A Guilty Heart

its mothers shame has come from the hand of God," and, in so doing, works upon the heart of her mother, both giving her joy and pr...

Color Symbolism in "Heart of Darkness"

"color meaning" website lists exactly these same colors: red, blue, green, orange and purple, plus black and white, as the ones it...

Neighborhood Watch: Study Design

hall meetings, in-depth interviews and one-on-one conversations with the purpose of exploring the issue in detail. In this partic...

Fluids & Congestive Heart Failure

able to monitor heat patients who are at-risk for fluid retention, healthcare providers anticipate that this device will enable th...

Satire Modeled After Candide

Herbert felt, were much smarter than himself. In particular, Herbert relied on his political adviser Carl Wanderer and his second-...

Literature Reviews of Studies on Heart Failure and Obesity

topic under discussion. Difference between primary and secondary sources : One source was selected in order to help illustrate th...