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Hand Washing Project

proven to be the principal reason for nosocomial infections, that is, infections that are acquired after hospital admittance. Impo...

The Ethical Responsibilities of Health Care Organizations

as individuals, "healthcare executives must evaluate the possible outcomes of their decisions and accept full responsibility for t...

Importance of Correct Insulin Dosage

hypoglycemia require different nursing responses. Mild hypoglycemia, which is defined by the symptoms listed above and a glucose r...

Reaction To 12-Step Meeting

- there were no cultural issues the presented themselves with regard to how the meeting progressed or the level of religious influ...

Holistic Nutrition: Language

to holistic nutrition with a prescriptive connotation as being used as "an alternative to, or in conjunction with, traditional med...

Schizophrenia and Weight Gain

exposes patients to new health risks by increasing their tendency to gain weight. Interventions that address the potential for wei...

Patient Case Study

edema in MS bilateral lower extremities suggests diminished cardiac function is occurring. MS was assessed with potential previou...

Traditional Interviewing And Postmodernism

does not automatically equate it with being valuable from the aspect of accurate response. Utilizing open-ended questions provide...

Drug Therapy-Statins

bodies to produce an excessive amount of cholesterol (Statins safe, 2004). Left untreated, this condition is associated with havin...

Holistic Assessment Of Self And Plan For Self Growth

of this journal is to demonstrate a newfound appreciation for everyday occurrences, it is important to note that each entry does n...

Anxiety Level in Elderly Patients & Primary Language

language competency. The results of this study confirmed that the BEST oral interview can be used successfully within the context ...

Deciding Who Lives and Who Dies

he perceives to be worthwhile causes. He is currently a sophomore at a large university, with majors in philosophy and literature....

Coronary Angiography

and Blood Institute, 2007). Zardi and colleagues (2008) referred to this procedure as the "gold standard" (p. 48) for assessing th...

Education And Senior Centers

active role in adult education by virtue of already having a facility full of eager learners. Some might not be aware of just how...

ADHD and the Role of the Psychiatric Nurse

motor vehicle crashes, substance abuse, and illegal behavior" (Visser, Lesesne and Perou, 2007, S99). Symptoms include irritabili...

Medical Coding

classify medical errors (Pace et al., 2005). In fact, there are taxonomies to classify errors but they are not standardized (Pace ...

ADHD: A Critique of the Research

and Perou (2007) report that an estimated five to eighteen percent of youth in the US are diagnosed with ADHD and most receive so...

Prevalence of Depression in Cardiac Surgery Patients

by Johansson, Dahlstrom and Brostrom (2006), they found 10 studies that examine4d the relationship between depression in HF patien...

HOSPITAL CASE STUDY

paying salaries). Patients are going to generally go to hospitals where their doctors are - though when it comes to emergencies or...

NP role in EDs/Study Article Critique

and theoretical Framework: The instrument designed for use in this study drew heavily upon the survey developed by Cole, et al, wh...

Personal Emergency Response Systems/Patient Outcomes

of four (Bernstein, 2000). Its use also reduces hospitalizations by 59 percent and yields a benefit to cost ratio of seven to one,...

Runaway Mothers: Reasons For Leaving

sent them scrambling to revise the law to include only infants. This was also a lesson for other states offering or considering t...

Medical Issues in Euthanasia

the patient die (1975). Consider the case of a patient with terminal throat cancer, who is in terrible pain which cannot successfu...

Erikson's Stages Of Development: The First Three Stages Are Instrumental For A Child To Successfully Work Through The Remaining Five

between parent and infant is not only a natural occurrence but also a highly critical and consequential stage in the development o...

Effects of DOT on LA TB Patients

Patient adherence to a prescribed chemotherapy is particularly crucial to the goal of positive patient outcomes in regards to trea...

Strategic Communication And Effective Leadership

in the workplace, however, far too many of them seem to gloss over the interpersonal nature of work environments and focus more po...

Putting Kolcaba's Theory of Comfort in Practice

a peaceful death among terminal patients. HSBs of specific groups of any size - whether large or small - are positively related t...

Comparing the Influence of the Past in 2 Novels

in charge of the Talented and Gifted placement program at Elizas elementary school, which is known as TAG. Ms. Lodowski is a woman...

Medicalization

points out, medicalization is a process that defines a problem in terms of the practitioners perspective and cultural biases, rath...

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Medical Coding, and Patient Privacy Rights

life in prison for patient death (Jacko & Sears, 2003). HIPAA is comprised of five major titles that are applicable to each provi...