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Medical Error Disclosure: Is It Safe To Say You're Sorry?

Appropriate treatment decisions and planning require this level of honest communication. The decision to disclose shouldnt revolv...

Prosthetic Knee Prototype for Pediatric Patients

phases of gait, the kinematics of the anatomical knee and the specific issues for pediatric prosthetic knee users, relates some of...

Contemporary Nursing Ethics

this development and left orders for both analgesia and sedation, which helped at first, but became less effective as the hours pa...

Group Therapy/Heart Patients with Depression

Heart disease is known to have a significant relationship with depression, which can greatly complicate the processes inherent in ...

Herbal Medicine/What Nurses Should Know

not as drugs, which means that these remedies do not undergo the rigorous testing that is required for prescription medicines (He...

Health Care: Ethical Dilemma

HIV-positive nurses being a threat to patients and other health care workers. Research clearly supports the reality of the situat...

Article Critique/Nursing Home Patients

there is no cure either for Alzheimers disease or the various forms of dementia on the horizon, healthcare practitioners should "i...

Ethical Issues/Menopausal Patient

this patient include giving the patient advice and treatment that will improve her overall health and life satisfaction. To sugges...

Controlling Catheter-Related Infections in Hemodialysis Patients

utilized a taurolidine and citrate solution to eliminate the catheter biofilm which is associated with infection. Taurolidine was...

Patient Services/Women’s Health

a study whose purpose was to determine the way in which patients perceive patient education efforts. This research revealed that c...

Needs Assessment for an Administrator of Patient Care Services for Women's Healthcare Services

often impacts the health and well-being of other members in a family (Miami Valley Hospital, 2004). As a result, the Womens Healt...

Nutrition and HIV

mineral supplement" every day (Ungvarski, 1996). Empirical evidence shows that there is a "synergistic and interactive relations...

Patient Case Study

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

Tonsillectomy Patient

with opioids and can be reversed with the antagonist flumazenil (Krauss and Green, 2006). During the procedure, midazolam is used ...

Nursing Philosophy for Professional Practice

nurses should understand these patients thoroughly, "who they are, where they live and with whom, their current health status and ...

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...

Hypertension Education for African American Patients

in response to cognitive and physiological challenge" (Covelli, 2007, p. 323). Diet: Both the intake of dietary sodium and potas...

Endometrial Cancer: Overview, Patient Assessment And Educational Plan

focusing equally upon causes and prevention as it is upon treatment and sustained recovery (Feig et al, 2006). Also known as uter...

Multicomponent individualized smoking cessation intervention for patients with lung disease

(Townsend, 2000). This study is advantageous in many other ways as well to the nursing educator. It utilizes methodologi...

PATIENT SAFETY AND CONSUMER-DIRECTED HEALTH CARE

had pushed through legislation mandating mandatory medical error reporting (Hosford, 2008). Additionally, and perhaps more importa...

Artificial Nutrition/hydration & Terminal Pediatric Patient

the insertion of a central line, threaded through a vein, and it was once believed that it would aid cancer patients, restoring ap...

The English Patient/Theme of Nationalism

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

Impact of Insured on St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

pay for treatment that is not covered by insurance and families without insurance are not required to pay (SJCRH, 2008). Furthermo...

Article Critique/Cancer Patient Distress

Literature Review As the above summation indicates, the researchers provide a logical and persuasive argument for their selection...

Patient Treatment Plan

She surveyed all of the independent living facilities in the local area and chose one; her grown children arranged and conducted t...

Nurse/Patient Ratios/Not One Size Fits All

assisting registered nurses (RNs) in order to meet legislated requirements (Schaefer 9). This means that while RNs have fewer pati...

Teaching Patients How to Use the Internet

look for the date that the page was last updated to ensure that the latest health information on that subject is offered. The last...

Nursing Home Patients And Their Vulnerabilities During Disasters

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

Pathologic Gambling In Parkinson's Disease Patients Using Dopamine Agonist

which dopamine agonists and levodopa therapy works synergistically to provide physical benefits is both grand and far-reaching; th...

Assistive Devices & The Elderly/Maintaining Independence

This study employed a prospective pre-test and a post-test randomized control trial design and a sample group of 53 senior adults ...