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

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...

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

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

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

for the family. Finances have been destroyed with assets being wiped out, the stress such illness creates in the other family memb...

to a nursing facility, it should also be understood that each situation is unique. When both the family members and the staff of t...

clear that the patient is taking part in a decision-making process, and not simply signing a form. In practical terms, of course, ...

and certainly health care facilities. In essence, the minimum requirements of nursing dictate that: * the nurse remain cognizant ...

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...

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

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

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

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...

All of the results of this reengineering, however, were not as positive. The process had not taken into consideration the fact th...

consent must be made through a signed legal document (Retsas and Forrester, 1995). In all cases consent must be freely and volunt...

of her post-polio syndrome left her unable to completely void her urine, which in turn led to the development of further UTIs. Da...

has been estimated that between 49 and 83 percent of all elderly adults experience pain on a regular basis (Briggs, 2003). Desbi...

the patient who is waiting either in a small dressing room or in the lab itself. The staff has conducted a time study and found t...

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

They found differences in these calculations. The major key learning point in this article is that any institution can always get...

with clear results provided. Quantitative and Discussion articles needed to present information that directly addresses the purpos...

from the age of around 60 years, however, the age at which this is reached is not fixed, as it is not with the others, but is a na...

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

Agency for Healthcare and Quality as "doing the right thing, at the right time, in the right way, for the right person-and having ...

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

et al, 2007). Over the last several decades, clinicians have come to regard treatment decisions in terms of quality of life "ben...

of a busy dermatological practice. This dermatologist see as many as 100 patients a day and is known as an "expert in the evaluati...