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This paper introduces the new diagnostic criteria found in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual V and utilizes those criteria in ...

Hospital readmissions of patients is upsetting to patients and families, especially when that readmission occurs within 30 days of...

Case study: a man was diagnosed with untreatable TB. The CDC enforced the law to isolate him, thereby taking away his freedom. Sho...

The incidence of heart failure is so great, it has become a public health concern. The readmission rates are very high for heart f...

This paper considers the role of patients' religion and how it should impact nursing care. The writer focuses on the way in whic...

The treatments Breuer and Freud developed for treating hysteria had an impact on the development of psychoanalysis. This is discu...

"ICU syndrome" (Elliot and Wright, 1999). In its milder form, ICU syndrome was characterized by the presence of confusion and memo...

level of problems for inpatients was 20.9% compared to only 8.4% for outpatients (Wilson et al, 2002). When asked to rate the serv...

facility grew to over 1,000 beds and the addition of a many barracks-style buildings. The design for a new facility began in 1942 ...

with physicians to "Yes, doctor," the still-proceeding transitions in healthcare continue to elevate the position of nurse while n...

the near future, however. This presents potentially severe consequences for the economics of elder care. The stakeholders in this...

The Clinical Workstation Application of the 3M(tm) Care Innovation Expert Applications system focuses on providing clinicians and ...

issue via conceptual analysis, inasmuch as Walker and Avant provide specific steps that allow one to wholly define the ambiguous a...

over their blood glucose levels; and (3) encouraging continuous improvement in nursing knowledge and patient education. The progr...

In this paper consisting of seven pages the importance of adequately assessing patient needs is discussed by examining the theorie...

it is right to allow terminally ill patients to end their lives, or to assist such patients to commit suicide, will continue despi...

to the bill as did many nursing executives, arguing that there was sufficient legislation already on the books that dealt with sta...

in funding for long-term care will have had a devastating impact on women, minorities, and children. Patterns of Use According to...

later adding informational pamphlets discussing heart disease in the aging. My first meeting with Ms. Bross largely was informati...

are ideally suited to assist patient and their families in clarifying their needs and desires, enhancing patient autonomy (Breier-...

For different reasons, each profession believes that the morning routine of washing and dressing is essential. Both the nurse and...

need for theory in accomplishing the tasks of direct patient care. There are routines and required protocols to follow, but the p...

some studies that address waiting times that patients invest in seeing physicians, however. McCarthy, McGee and OBoyle (2000) pro...

indwelling foley and compression boot. Her dressing is dry and intact. She was discharged with Percocet 5mg q6. Analysis and Out...

Leadership and management while related are two distinctively different concepts. Leadership can be discerned from simply manageme...

In five pages this research paper examines how Alzheimer's Disease influences the patients' brain cells and structure. Eight sour...

Building on the work of William Farr, Jacques Bertillon, the chief statistician for the city of Paris, devised a revised classific...

planning evaluation to those patients, conducted or overseen by a registered nurse, social worker or other appropriately qualified...

has always been about the development of autonomy, equality, social justice and democracy" (Mezirow, 1999). The transformative app...

9.Surg: Patients recovering from some form of surgery. 10. Med: Patients recovering from some form of illness. 11. ICU-Intensive C...