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Medical/Surgical Nursing and Documentation

(Fawcett, 1995). Application of either model rests in large part on the appropriateness and completeness of nurse documentation (...

Technology Implementation at SJMCH, A Case Study

This research paper presents a case study of the implementation of electronic technology at St. Joseph Medical Center at Houston, ...

Med-Surge Nursing

nurse working on a medical unit at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center. According to Kodet, the only thing ...

Diabetic Education/New Nurses

Sometimes the ability to perform foot self-exams for follow-up education or acute illness (Nettles, 2005, p. 44). Additionally, ...

Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP)

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

Documentation Errors and Incorrect Abbreviations in Medical Documentation

may matter (Arevalo, 2007). At the least, they force people to stop what theyre doing to track down someone who can clarify the ab...

Suggestions for a Clinical Journal Entry

to answer Mary or look at her. Mary continued to talk soothingly, rubbing Angelas back lightly as she did so. She talked about how...

Nursing Responses to Healthcare Cultural Differences

In a paper consisting of 4 pages the surgical complications regarding a member of the Jehovah's Witness patient as described in a ...

Personal Philosophy of Nursing

individual is an "open system," which includes "distinct, but integrated physiological, psychological and socio-cultural systems" ...

Nursing and Patient Records

In ten pages this paper examines the increased visibility of a nurse's role and also considers the enhancement of nursing document...

Nurse Practitioner Cost Analysis

In a paper consisting of twenty five pages that includes an annotated bibliography of nine pages the addition of a staff nurse pra...

Acute versus Long Term Care and Medical Records

In six pages this paper discusses acute and long term medical records' documentation in terms of differences regarding inclusion. ...

Live Art Performance and Documentation

resemble mediatized ones (25)" (Chansky, 2003). At this point Auslander begins to focus on "media epistemology" as it influenc...

Mistakes in Medical Abbreviations

in the fact that the abbreviations largely come from the Latin: "OD" is intended to mean "once daily" but is sometimes read as "oc...

ANALYSIS OF CODING ARTICLES

despite the low response rate, that the sample was representative of the study, as the sample represented tended to encompass all ...

Behavioral Health Management, Case Managers and Primary Care Physicians

to treatment; and "significant benefit restrictions for treating serious mental illnesses and addictions," have prompted advocates...

MRSA Crisis, Management Issues

This research paper discusses management of MRSA infection within a medical/surgical unit. Three pages in length, three sources ar...

Overview of Necrotizing Enterocolitis Gastrointestinal Disorder

In six pages NEC is defined with statistical data, surgical alternatives, and management of this medical condition also provided. ...

Surgical and Medical Patients and the Value of Sleep

In two pages this paper summarizes and reviews a journal article in which the importance of sleep for medical patients is argued b...

Nursing Perceptions

In eight pages this paper examines the field of nursing in terms of nursing roles in health care management, education requirement...

Ladies & Gentlemen of the Jury, I Present…the Nursing Documentation

was breached," the third is to prove that there was an injury incurred by the patient and the fourth must prove that this "injury ...

Antibiotic Prophylaxis, Surgery & Accountability

in resistant strains of bacteria (Plonczynski, 2005). This situation suggests that changes in antibiotic prophylactic procedures ...

Standard Coronary Bypass and MIDCAB Benefits

In eight pages this literature review emphasizes the benefits of the minimally invasive MIDCAB direct coronary bypass surgical pro...

Kolcaba and Holistic Care

reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...

The Occupation of Surgical Nurse Director

highly trained nursing professionals. 2.State the salary range for the Surgical Nurse Director in the geographic area in which yo...

Role of Nurses in Knee Replacement Surgery

degrees of restricted motion (Swank and Lehnert 631). Computer-assisted systems (CAS) have been developed to aid surgeons in obtai...

Medical Coders

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

7 Nursing Theory Issues

patient was in a significant amount of pain, he made jokes throughout his entire stay, as family members remained at his bedside. ...

Skin Cancer Literature Review

when Coco Chanel made the look desirable. Since that time, legions of youth and adults have sought to possess the "perfect" tan, ...

Professional Practice and Research Interview Summary

techniques or theories as they pertain to the medical world, and it is as if the prison setting is the last place where these tech...