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

that birth occurs when a woman is in the youthful childbearing years. A student asks: " Should age be factor in permitting pregnan...

Leadership and management while related are two distinctively different concepts. Leadership can be discerned from simply manageme...

is designed to ensure that "Patients have access to needed care" and that healthcare providers are "free to practice medicine with...

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

problem of expansive pharmaceutical pricing and the social impacts for the nations poor. The Scope of the Problem One of the m...

of different causative factors (Clinician Reviews, 2007; Hunter et al, 2002). Extrapolated prevalence rates for constipation in t...

has always been about the development of autonomy, equality, social justice and democracy" (Mezirow, 1999). The transformative app...

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

Agency for Healthcare and Quality as "doing the right thing, at the right time, in the right way, for the right person-and having ...

In twelve pages this paper defines HMOs, considers how treatments are funded, decision making, and examines various ethical issues...

of those hospitals in a managed care contract consider joint billing to be important. Only nine percent place importance on group...

The job prospects for pediatric nurses show all the signs of significant growth over the next ten years, with an expected faster g...

are almost always upheld by the courts. Nevertheless, this does not give government unlimited power to dictate public behavior, as...

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

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

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

state of the art technology. Their lives will be saved above the others. It is somewhat like the scenario when the Titanic went do...

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 ...

with physicians to "Yes, doctor," the still-proceeding transitions in healthcare continue to elevate the position of nurse while n...

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...

to believe that his strategy for paying the hospitals bill for treatment to be a sound one. He had sued the local trolley line (a...

where there is reduced access and denial of necessary services to patients in general (Lens, 2002). This situation causes increa...

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

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

implied (Retsas and Forrester, 1995). Take the action of the patient who rolls up their sleeve to receive a shot for example (Ret...

(1989), a management guru suggested that a succinct explanation is that managers are people who do things right and leaders are pe...

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

In a paper of four pages, the writer considers the issue of the unresponsive patient, especially as it impacts patient care. This...

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