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EMPLOYEE SAFETY AND HUMAN RESOURCES

the United States in 2005 (Ford and Tetrick, 2008). This is a high total, especially in light of moves and rules that have reduced...

Hospital Chaplains and Elderly Illnesses

Dementia is a debilitating disease that strikes mostly older people. The focus of this essay is Spiritual care for people with dem...

EBP from Three Perspectives

This essay provides a student with a hypothetical guide to discussing interviews with RN, a nurse practitioner and a patient conce...

Religious Beliefs, Importance to Nursing

This paper considers the role of patients' religion and how it should impact nursing care. The writer focuses on the way in whic...

Culturally Competent Care In Psychiatric Hospitals

Culturally competent care appropriate for a psychiatric hospital is considered a basic and primary component of nursing given the ...

Theories of Peplau and Orem in Patient Assessment

In this paper consisting of seven pages the importance of adequately assessing patient needs is discussed by examining the theorie...

The Theory of Human Caring

al, 2009). The theory came from "the results of studies accomplished by the author along her Doctorate in Clinic and Social Psycho...

Refusal of Care: The Ethical Dimensions

refers to instances in which patients who have been admitted to a health care facility decide to refuse treatment from doctors (Lo...

Utilizing Electronic Patient Records Systems

pilot studies 1. Introduction The potential benefits of technology in the health industry are enormous. In the past the use ...

Medical Error and Quality Care

of a busy dermatological practice. This dermatologist see as many as 100 patients a day and is known as an "expert in the evaluati...

Overview of OSHA

In ten pages this paper examines how the Occupational Safety Act has developed since its 1970 implementation....

Postsurgical Patient Care

indwelling foley and compression boot. Her dressing is dry and intact. She was discharged with Percocet 5mg q6. Analysis and Out...

Case Study of the United Kingdom's National Health Service Direct and Mental Health Provision

the telephone as well as the Internet and walk in centres, to answer queries form patients in the effort to reduce the number of v...

Ratio of Patients to Nurses

to the bill as did many nursing executives, arguing that there was sufficient legislation already on the books that dealt with sta...

Patient Dignity and Concept Analysis

need for theory in accomplishing the tasks of direct patient care. There are routines and required protocols to follow, but the p...

Investigating an Accident

This paper examines the conducting of accident investigations on eight pages and also provides various safety suggestions....

Treatment in Home and in Hospital for Acute Conditions Advantages and Disadvantages

level of problems for inpatients was 20.9% compared to only 8.4% for outpatients (Wilson et al, 2002). When asked to rate the serv...

The History and Mission of Tripler Army Medical Center

facility grew to over 1,000 beds and the addition of a many barracks-style buildings. The design for a new facility began in 1942 ...

Gary Pisano's 'Partners Health Care System, Inc.,(B): Cardiac Care Improvement

All of the results of this reengineering, however, were not as positive. The process had not taken into consideration the fact th...

Pain Management for the Elderly

has been estimated that between 49 and 83 percent of all elderly adults experience pain on a regular basis (Briggs, 2003). Desbi...

Stroke Patients and Nursing Case Management

Partially as a result of improved heath care practices which result in longer life and partially as the result of the movement aw...

Home Health Agency Information Technology Upgrading

means of the company. Current Work Process Purpose of the Work Process The "home health" sector of the health care industry...

Ethical Treatment of Patients and the 1975 Film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

some of the inmates to play poker with pornographic cards. He smuggles hookers in for several of the ward mates, and he threatens ...

Organizational Structure and Patient Care

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

Assisting in Grief Counseling

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

Organizational Change in St. Vincent's ICU

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

Article Critique/Handling Difficult Situations/Daily Care

include not only the emotional impact of being experienced by the patient and the relatives involved, but research has also relate...

Nursing Shortage In The United States: Causes, Effects And Solutions

Budget cutbacks, burnout and lack of student enrollment have precluded sufficient staffing in many critical areas of healthcare. ...

Michael Moore's "Sicko" - Health Care That Harms Rather Than Helps

head of the largest Anti-Michael Moore website announced that he had to delete the website because his wife had cancer and the ins...

Nursing/Medical Vocabulary

9.Surg: Patients recovering from some form of surgery. 10. Med: Patients recovering from some form of illness. 11. ICU-Intensive C...