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High Blood Presssure and Heart Disease

has been linked to risk for hyperreactive responses to stressors (Lehman et al., 2009). Parent education and training might mitiga...

Outsourcing Offshore is Bad for America

many different reasons. Some outsource non-core activities, which allows the company to spend more of their resources on their cor...

Nursing Care for Elderly Patient

By addressing this need, which includes rehabilitation designed to aid her mobility, nursing intervention can also have a positive...

Impact of Parts of Affordable Care Act

Their conditions range in severity from life-threatening like cancer to chronic conditions like heart disease (HealthCare.gov, 201...

Weight Loss Surgeries: A Comparison

than an hour 2. 24 hours in the hospital. 3. Recovery period of 6 weeks. 4. Loss of work time of 1 week. B. Gastric Bypass 1. 2 h...

Implications of Family Abuse for Victims and Society

In a paper of five pages, the writer discusses abuse in a family situation, its origins, prevalence and ramifications. The writer ...

Analysis of Two Essays on American Culture

when an a more appropriate question would be "whether they had fun" (Ecenbarger). This fits with the overall cultural focus on, no...

Tommy John Surgery and Current Research

different populations that can be impacted by the use of this kind of surgery. Researchers have recognized the devastating impa...

Diabetes in New Mexico and Community Health Nursing

of Health (NMDH) indicates that, as of 2007, it was estimated that 157,930 New Mexico adults, 18 years of age and older, had diabe...

WRONG-SITE SURGERY AND FOLLOW-UP

can add to the scenario from the patient point of view. Again, the point here is not to point fingers (the hospitals legal departm...

Life Saving Cosmetic Surgery

not apply only to agencies and services that help the children directly, but also to businesses whose donations can better assure ...

Diabetes: Alternative Health Care

of which includes diabetes (Samuels et al 55). Auricle pressure points - comprise over half of the more than 400 acupuncture poin...

Annotated Bibliography: Hospital/Surgery Anxiety

group took part in another education method via telephone as well, while the control group did not. Fifty-four respondents were c...

Paranoid Schizophrenia

potential need for treatment for impaired skin integrity due to immobility. Therefore, the nurse will begin precautions prior to a...

Organizational Behavior Problem in Hospitals

A study by the Joint Commission revealed that communication failures were implicated at the root of over 70 percent of sentinel ev...

Obesity and Bariatric or Gastric Bypass Surgery

is the largest non-profit healthcare organization in the United States and currently oversees the operations of 8 million particip...

The Impact on the Quality of Life for the Tube Fed Elderly

quality of life represents the extent to which an individual can continue living his or her normal existence without the overwhelm...

Surgery Preparation of Hands

non-sterile paper. The participant would then use a sufficient amount of the aqueous alcoholic solution to fully cover the hands...

Truth in Patient Care

"become a universal law" (Kant, 1993, p. 30). In other words, Kants main criteria for action is that the individual should conside...

Enhancing Total Quality Management at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Guam

quite a leap to effectively apply its principles to service industries, but TQM is as much at home in health care as it is in manu...

Elements of Psychiatric Nursing Practice

who is the legal guardian, as this pertains to the legality of admitting a minor for psychiatric care. If the patient is accompani...

Ida J. Orlando And Hildegard E. Peplau: Theoretical Application To Eating Disorders

the inherent differences between models. Ultimately, an individual chooses a nursing model that is based upon and compatible with...

Mandatory Staffing Ratios

between those who supported mandatory staffing ratios, based on research such as the study conducted by Linda Aiken, and the stanc...

Treatment Alternatives for CHF Besides Surgery

performed are not always that promising. To further complicate the success of SVR the age-old problem of surgery-related depressi...

Circulating Nurse Surgery Case Study

ventilation. This included placing hip pads with egg crate foam under the patients iliac crest to prevent hyperextension of the lo...

Gender, Surgery, and Hypothermia

to correct these deviations (Nicoll, 2002). If the hypothalamus senses that the body is too cold, the first autonomic response is ...

Outpatient Surgery and Risk

(Outpatient Surgical Centers, 2005). Surgeons generally are not part of the staff, but the centers employ all other positions req...

Antibiotic Prophylaxis, Surgery & Accountability

in resistant strains of bacteria (Plonczynski, 2005). This situation suggests that changes in antibiotic prophylactic procedures ...

Addiction Transfer Disorder & Gastric Bypass Surgery

addicted to something else such as alcohol, gambling or compulsive shopping (Spencer, 2006). The realization that this is a proble...