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Mucor Infection, Pneumonia

This research paper presents information relevant to a patient for whom mucor infection has progressed to pneumonia. Lab results a...

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...

Iatrogenic Infection

This 14 page paper looks at the issue of iatrogenic infection and how a hospital may undertake an innovation to reduce the occurre...

MRSA Infection

a part of the normal flora of human beings and colonizes the anterior nares (Nicolle, 2006). However, it is also a significant pat...

Nurses and Controlling Infection

appropriate. Also, when changing bed linens it is imperative that the soiled bed linens get placed in a bag and not into the clea...

Infection Control; Non Dedicated Equipment, Especially the Risks and Use of Scissors

that some stains of tuberculosis has become more difficult to treat as a result of the drugs that have been used and the ability o...

Hand Hygiene Health Care Providers

millions of people in the hospital contract infections. This means that they are not only dealing with the issue or illness for wh...

Antimicrobial Therapy, an Overview

This research paper describes the categories used to classify antimicrobial agents, the differences between viral and bacterial in...

Research Questions, HAIs and Basin Baths

This research paper discusses the problem of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) and literature that indicates that traditional ba...

CAUTIs and Prevention

This research paper concerns the problem of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) and the prevalence of this nosoc...

The Use of Presurgical Washing

& Wann-Hansson, 2010). The use of evidence-based best practice protocols introduced preoperatively by nursing staff can help to r...

Hospital-Acquired Infections and the Vulnerability of Medicare

costs to the tune of more than $10,000 dollars and also have to stay in the hospital an average of 3 to 4 days longer than they wo...

Preventing Infection In Health Care Settings

2008). This should be a good incentive for all health care institutions to do a better job of controlling and preventing infection...

Proteus Vulgaris

2007). Increased risk to the bacilli is found in patients which have suffered from redcurrant infections, those with urethral inst...

Hospital Disclosure

hospital is not exactly easy, and in some cases impossible." This would suggest that Auers (2006) reported average of five percent...

Information on Nursing Homes

This paper consists of five pages and considers three issues as they pertain to nursing homes including nursing rates of pay betwe...

Nursing Homes and Senior Citizen Infections

In eight pages this research paper discusses the serious problem of controlling senior citizen infection in a nursing home setting...

Heart Murmurs and Pneumonia

In five pages this paper examines what if any correlation exists between heart murmurs and pneumonia. Four sources are cited in t...

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...

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...

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...

Pneumonia and its Connection with the reuse of Suction Catheters in Children

controlled trials, systematic reviews, meta analyses, clearly defined hypothesis, and a definitive and strong conclusion. If one ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Pneumonia Care. Article Review

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