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Type and Incidence of Falls in Patients of a Home Care Nursing Agency

only injuries in 53% of the falls recorded. It should be noted that for other types of injury there were some cross overs, for exa...

The English Patient/Theme of Nationalism

blank slate for the imaginings of those around him, particularly Hana. Myth "crosses international boundaries and offers apparentl...

Hospital Medicare Reimbursement

to take expensive prescription medications as prescribed. This acerbates medical conditions and results in increases in acuity lev...

Basic Rights in Health Care

are told what they should do by their physicians. For example, if a patient visits a doctor and due to age parameters, he or she w...

Gender Identity Patient Disorder Diagnosis, Treatment, and the Film Boys Don’t Cry

by persistent discomfort with ones sex" (Meyenburg, 1999, p. 305). This gender identification with the opposite sex typically com...

Hand Washing Project

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

Confidentiality/ANA Ethics & New York State Law

This ANA Code also specifically includes the possibility that "inappropriate disclosure" can occur by using "identifiable patient ...

Period and its Impact on the Incidence of Deep Wound Infection in Diabetic Individuals Undergoing Open Heart Surgery

Researchers have identified nutrition as a significant factor in wound healing. In fact, it has been argued that nutritional elem...

Quality of Life with AIDS

system, decreasing the natural defenses that allow the body to fight off infections and diseases (Etiology, 2008). As this suggest...

Orthopaedic Nursing Journal Article Reviewed

In ten pages a tutorial review on the article 'Discharge Teaching Work Strategies for Patients and Families for Care in the Home'...

Terminally Ill Children and Counseling

In seven pages the issues related to counseling a dying child patient and family members are examined. Twelve sources are cited i...

Clinical Trials and Patient Safety

In fifty five pages this paper examines clinical trials and patient safety in a discussion of major issues, audit findings, strate...

BNP Assays (Article Summary)

predicting mortality and morbidity. Authors provide a section to explain and explore the existence of natriuretic peptides. Anoth...

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...

Artificial Nutrition, Hydration, and Ethics

In twelve pages patient ethics are examined in a consideration of issues associated with artificial hydration and nutrition. Twel...

Overview of Executive Nursing

In nine pages executive nursing is examined in a discussion of their many concerns regarding the industry itself, patient care, an...

Terminally Ill Patients and Hospital Resource Allocation Ethics

In four pages this paper considers terminally ill patients, space making allocation, and the ethical dilemmas that surround this d...

AIDS Patients and Nursing

In five pages this paper discusses issues relating to patients with AIDS and nurses. Twelve sources are cited in the bibliography...

Assisted Suicide, Ethics, and Nursing

way, before his mind too, was gone." As a nurse, this presented me with what I felt were two conflicting goals. On the one hand, ...

Environmental Analysis of HHH Home Health Care Company's Strategic Plan

care. Internal Environment Rising Costs As other types of health care providers seek to control their own costs, home healt...

Teenagers and Pallative Care

have changed considerably over the last century. This change is associated with a number of factors, the most prominent being our...

Bone Cancer Case Study and Nursing Interventions

nurses as they engage in diagnostic, prescriptive, and regulatory operations of nursing" (Horan, Doran and Timmins, 2004, p. 30). ...

Perspectives on Community Nursing

In eight pages a community nursing issue in which an educational interaction between a student nurse and a patient did not go well...

Impact Of Chronic Illness On The Elderly And Families

medications or they could be a sign of depression (Turner and Kelly, 2000). Turner and Kelly (2000) state strongly that it is e...

Total Joint Patients, Decreasing Infections

This research paper pertains to decreasing surgical site infections in total joint arthroplasty patients. The writer draws on rese...

Issues with RHIOs

A RHIO is a type of health information exchange organization where certain professionals upload health/medical data and other prof...

To Live or Not to Live? and Coma

This paper deals with the issue of traumatic brain injury and coma, which includes the trauma of families facing the decision as t...

Nursing Home Care for Dementia Patients: Speaker Notes:

This paper consists of the speaker notes for a PowerPoint presentation that pertains to the a student's volunteer experience. The ...

Throughput and Management Strategies, Emergency Departments

This research paper addresses the issue of patient throughput in overcrowded Emergency Departments (EDs). Management and throughpu...

Hysteria and Free Assocation

This paper is based on the book, Pioneers of Psychology by Francher and Rutherford. The paper discuses different issues about free...