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food, clean water and - most important for some people who did not survive - electricity to keep their life-sustaining equipment r...

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...

of professional nursing, nursing theory provides perspectives and guidance that aids nurses in achieving their primary goal of pro...

had its epicentre off Sunmatas west coast, between Simeulue and mainland Indonesia, 30 km below sea level and had a magnitude 9.3 ...

Businesses are at risk for many different disruptions. Natural disasters like hurricanes and tornadoes and human-made disasters li...

In five pages this report considers a disaster's aftermath and people's vulnerability as represented in this 1996 theoretical text...

why this population may be seen as particularly vulnerable. The paper will then look in detail at the service offered, and then co...

established that nurses are often involved in the "timely identification of complications," which, if acted upon swiftly, prevent ...

(Cunningham, 2008). Observed Results Cortez (2008) states that in the past, patients had been known to call 911 from their ...

Leadership and management while related are two distinctively different concepts. Leadership can be discerned from simply manageme...

Hospital. The purpose here is to describe and evaluate the restructuring of St. Vincents ICU to gain one-on-one nursing and so im...

hospitals. Under her wings, she took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to hea...

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

who is the legal guardian, as this pertains to the legality of admitting a minor for psychiatric care. If the patient is accompani...

The writer presents a proposal to support a plan for setting up and running a nursing agency, providing nursing and other healthca...

This research paper/essay concerns a home visit with an older woman suffering from congestive heart failure (CHF, hypertension and...

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

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

The writer presents a paper which looks at the implementation of electronic patient records for a company providing medical care f...

management, in recent years, has been quite extensive. This body of empirical evidence and commentary largely supports the concept...

been undertaking environmental strategies as part of their operations and the emerging BP set themselves a goal of being a leader ...

report, admissions, and emergency situations" (Griffin, 2003, p. 135). The rationale for this policy is that it protects the confi...

In seven pages the confidentiality issues nurses must contend with are discussed within the weighty context of the trust between p...

This 15 page paper discusses seven patients who suffer from various forms of mental illness, and argues that there may be an under...

left to deny anything connected with the loss, either before or after the fact. Those left behind also need to acknowledge the me...

Louisiana, where the water was roughly 5,000 feet deep. At roughly 9.45 pm2 there was an explosion resulting from high pressure me...

Statement, 2006). It is also a goal of HHC to "join with other health workers and with communities in a partnership" (Mission Sta...

specifically designed for such an occurrence. What is the single most important aspect of emergency management falls into category...

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at disaster response. Hurricane Katrina provides an example of the role of community v...

has always been about the development of autonomy, equality, social justice and democracy" (Mezirow, 1999). The transformative app...