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endeavor. Nursing in any context requires a detailed knowledge of individual patients. Specifically, a forensic nurse will have a...
she does "light housekeeping," which is also not consistent with someone who needs assistance getting out of bed. However, the stu...
"interactive, systems, and developmental" approaches (Tourville and Ingalls 21). The systems model of nursing perceives the meta...
Research has previously shown that depression is a significant predictor of HRQOL. The participants in this study reported their H...
sent them scrambling to revise the law to include only infants. This was also a lesson for other states offering or considering t...
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Americans 65 years or older increased by 74 percent between 1970 and 1999, from roughly 20 mi...
combination of these drugs is prescribed although there are some drugs that are combinations within themselves, such as Combivir, ...
An interview conducted in 2006 with John P. Stewart, executive director with the Baltimore Commission on Aging and Retirement Educ...
life expectancy than in previous generation, but to face it alone, that is, in a one-person household (De Jong Gierveld, 2002). Th...
language competency. The results of this study confirmed that the BEST oral interview can be used successfully within the context ...
elderly population is finding it difficult to meet their own financial needs and have few choices but to pool resources with other...
been great debate over how to manage health care in the US, it has been relatively recently that the question has been raised that...
from the age of around 60 years, however, the age at which this is reached is not fixed, as it is not with the others, but is a na...
or people at risk, a handful of businessmen capitalized upon opportunity by what those like Heilbroner et al (1998) believe to be ...
It is well known that there is a significant shortage of registered nurses that will continue to grow. There is a difference of op...
This paper places the responsibility for caring for the elderly parents on the shoulders of their adult children. There are four ...
This essay discusses a student's observations of elderly adults and the student's interpretation of the observed behaviors, drawin...
(2003) gives the example of an nurse assigned to a busy intensive care unit (ICU) began experiencing clear signs of traumatic stre...
abuse victims in the United States each year, but officials only hear of about perhaps 1 in 25 cases" (Hurme, 2006). When people t...
This paper reports on the dissemination process for a DNP project, the impact and prevention of psychiatric polypharmacy among the...
This research paper examine the prevalence of suicide among the elderly. Causes and prevention suggestions are described. Three pa...
The paper begins by briefly identifying and explaining three of the standard change theory/models. The stages of each are named. T...
the "niche were multiple members encounter and respond to disease and illness across the life course" (Denham, 2003, p. 143). Nurs...
topic has been anecdotal in nature, therefore, Banks and Banks (2002) designed a study utilizing pet therapy, or as they term it, ...
the nurse is uncertain of which tasks are appropriate to delegation, as well as the skill level of UAPs, their reluctance becomes ...
on some theological idea that only God can end life. We wouldnt allow a dog or cat to suffer; why then do we force humans to do so...
can no longer follow this model is because medical technology can now greatly prolong life-perhaps make it too long. People now ro...
She surveyed all of the independent living facilities in the local area and chose one; her grown children arranged and conducted t...
medications or they could be a sign of depression (Turner and Kelly, 2000). Turner and Kelly (2000) state strongly that it is e...
trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception required within the sensual world is decidedly uniq...