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Nursing Home Falls and Best Practices

-3.14 2.83 6.05 As the numbers indicate, in all but Q3 2009, the number of falls experienced exceeded the target. This suggests t...

Failures in Fall Prevention Practices

The writer looks at the best practice strategies to reduce fall rates in elderly community based patients. The research based bet ...

Home Healthcare Nursing Application in Critical Care Nursing

In ten pages a home healthcare case study is employed to examine what nursing approaches would best be used in this scenario and a...

Risks in the Home that Impact on Fall Rates

The writer looks at literature which has been used to identify different risks in the home environment that may impact on the fall...

Research and Nursing Practice

eventually revert to many of the methods formerly used in patient care. She makes clear distinction between research in nursing t...

New Nurses Survival Guide

2008, p. 208). The purpose of the study designed by Sorensen and Yankech (2008) was to investigate whether a "research-based, th...

Elder Neglect in Nursing Homes

be vulnerable to abuse or neglect for a variety of reasons and in a variety of situations, which range from home care to care in r...

Research Evaluation on Nursing Home Costs of Utilizing MDS/PPS RUG III Systems

(p. 835) among Medicaid residents of Massachusetts nursing homes between 1991 and 1994. This mixed method (i.e., quantitative as ...

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...

Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom and Perspectives Gained

In three pages this paper examines the insight this text provides and how nursing practice could benefit from its application....

Nursing Practice and Types of Research Methodologies

a method which pursues both action and understanding at the same time, and points out that it is particularly relevant in situatio...

An Annotated Bibliography of Nurse Research

prevent the potential of incidences of sudden cardiac death in young athletes. The authors maintained that pre-participation card...

Pain Management and Long Term Care Residents' Rights

old signs of questionable care still apply, however. Unexplained injury or falls, the occurrence of pressure sores, and evidence ...

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. ...

Best Practices in Different Organizations

systems enabled the industry as a whole to become much more efficient, reducing the maximum delay time for train shipments to just...

Advanced Nursing Practice Philosophy

therapeutic manner (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003). This relationship may refer to a single individual, or the "person" may be a sma...

Various Types of Nursing Roles

implementing the treatment regimen. 5. collaborating with other health care providers in determining the appropriate health care f...

The Influence of Environmental Factors on Falls

This paper is an annotated bibliography written in support of a nursing paper examining environmental factors which may influence...

Personal Philosophy of Nursing

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

Nursing Project - Learning Review

being examined from the physical perspective it was also necessary to look at the falls from a practical, social and a psychologic...

Nursing Home Falls and Performance Improvement

falls. Of course, performance measures must utilize meaningful metrics if the performance they measure is to be of any use to the ...

Feedback from a Mentor on Presentation Proposing a Fall Prevention Program

The writer provides some feedback that may have been provided by a mentor, looking at a presentation given by the student. The pr...

Presentation for the Implementation of a Fall Prevention Strategy

The paper is a presentation designed to introduce and explain a new fall prevention policy for a home care nursing agency. The pr...

A Qualitative Study, Fall Prevention

This paper summarizes and analyzes a qualitative Norwegian study that examined the experiences of home care nurses in regards to f...

Nursing Home Falls - A Literature Review

of falls in nursing homes, it was essential to collect information from as wide a variety of credible sources as possible. Title s...

Nursing Homes Centered on Clients

The most recent trend in nursing home care is client-centered treatment. This paper examines statistics in elder care, with almost...

PDAs as a Home Nursing Boon

In a research paper consisting of nine pages the ways in which personal digital assistance can be used as home nursing support are...

APRN Working to Their Full Extent

This paper offered a position paper on the topic of allowing Advanced Practice Registered Nurses to practice up to their knowledge...

Scope of Practice and APN Roles

This research paper presents an examination of nursing empirical literature that covers a number of issues relevant to advanced pr...

Current Issues, Advanced Practice Nursing

This research paper discusses a number of issues in advanced practice nursing, such as barriers to practice, credentialing, the hi...