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"chronic, heavy drinking" (Enoch and Goldman, 2002, p. 192). According to government standards, a woman is at-risk for heavy drink...

and three stores," which served as "stock rooms, milk stations, clinics," etc. (Lillian Wald). Roughly 3,000 people typically were...

(Cardozo, 2003, p. S35). Within a few hours of being admitted to the ICU, Jacks condition was evaluated using the Waterlow risk as...

a nurse to determine which elderly patients are being abused because a sense of shame or a desire to protect the family member who...

Roughly 50 percent of the current working nursing population will retire within the next 15 years (Mee and Robinson, 2003). Adding...

one else to do them and she saw a need (Krain, 2002). "She recruited another nurse and began working out of a fifth floor apartmen...

and their insurers by operating under two distinct fee schedules. Medicare requires that care providers fees be "normal and custo...

announcing that shes "fine" and then another year or two will pass before the next outburst of psychosis. There is resignation an...

theorist Jean Watson, who developed her Theory of Human Caring in the late 1970s. As a result of Watsons efforts to bring greater...

does not address the topic of specific competencies. In other words, the most recent literature that is even remotely related to t...

period of restructuring in many industries, including healthcare. Managed care organizations and changes in reimbursement rates f...

and how discharge instructions should cover these contingencies. "Health" has historically been used to describe the "absence of d...

This PowerPoint presentation includes 9 slides plus a bibliography. The topic is the nursing shortage. Bibliography lists 1 sourc...

and the spirit says, "Ahhh, everything feels much better now" (Wooten, 2005, p. 510). Another factor in her relationships with c...

any incident that requires an increased level of response beyond the routine operating procedures" (NASN, 2006). Natural disasters...

weaker, less developed than the other. This delayed his walking, and, even after he walked successfully at age 3, it took several ...

trends. This peer-reviewed journal also offers its readership a forum for sharing their experiences with their peers, as well as l...

2001, p. 24). While the ancestors of many Americans of Czech extraction came to the US in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries...

an obstruction of the airway and can involved any or all of the following factors: "smooth muscle bronchoconstriction, mucous secr...

properly, nursing staff is highly aware of this lack. Research into nursing staff retention has found that the quality of housekee...

need of treatment following tours in Rwanda, the Balkans and Somalia" (Auld). Mental health problems in regards to soldiers retu...

factor in childhood obesity is the fact that television viewing tends to be accompanied by the consumption of high-calorie, high s...

p. 364). Due to the fact that eating behaviors tend to be established by early experience, it is important for healthy eating habi...

drivers" than do states that do not require test automatic testing (Murden and Unroe, 2005, p. 22). Most states do set standards f...

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

"three important hormones: erythropoietin ... or EPO, which stimulates the bone marrow to make red blood cells; renin, which regul...

particular condition because he at least is aware of his condition. About one-half of those with this disease are not as fortunat...

care is to formulate a health care system and workforce that possesses the skill and understanding required to deliver quality hea...

nurses facilitate the "recognition and communication" of these concepts, permitting "thoughts to be shared through language" (Davi...

and Cox, 2001; p. 375). The ascending colon, which is approximately six inches long, extends upward to the hepatic flexure....