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Providing Comfort in the Emergency Room

charted component of my daily patient interaction. However, to remind myself of the other responsibilities during busy per...

EMTALA and Illegal Aliens

to 20 minutes, an increase of 150 percent but at least 25 percent of these heart patients actually waited at least 50 minutes (Kro...

Health Care Center Case Study: PQRST

inflamed, tender to the touch and evident of a small amount of pus (DAlessandro et al, 2004), becoming more painful as time progre...

Proposal for an Emergency Room Expansion

and many others have pondered the difficulties of running ERs around the country. In order to eliminate problems, several ideas ...

Hospital Risk Management - Consent Forms

wrong way to think about it, instead, physicians should look at this "formality" as a way to communicate with the patient (Yale-Ne...

A Historical Analysis of EMTALA

some schools do not receive funding if they hold religious classes for example or do not abide by affirmative action. Similarly, E...

Kolcaba's Comfort Theory Of Nursing

the plan may be objective where the actual healing can be measured or it may be subjective according to what the patient says (Dup...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

Different Method to Control Mental Health Patients

Seclusion and constraints have been the traditional way to control mental health patients when they lose control. This has always ...

Technology Improves Emergency Rooms

their resources and materials but emergency rooms do not seem to be able to keep track of equipment or even patients. One issue we...

Medical Ethics (Case Study Analysis)

see two broken femurs without any explanation whatsoever. Also, in the hospital, no one is asking why the child may have broken bo...

HIPAA Rights And Their Impact Upon Medical Errors In The Emergency Room

further harm; instead of deferring to this individuals personhood, she wholly disregarded what his physician considered to be the ...

Ethics and Legalities of Health Care

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...

An Article on Families in the ER Critiqued

and fear and engenders feelings of support and help for the patient " (MacLean, et al, 2003). In regards to negative outcomes, fam...

ER Personnel and Problems of Violence

of the ED staff members had been threatened by a weapon; 55 hospitals (43%) reported that a physical attack on a staff member occu...

Overview of Designer Drugs

In twenty pages designer drugs such as cocaine, marijuana, roofies, and Ecstasy are discussed in terms of their content, origin, h...

Contemporary ER

In six pages this paper examines modern day hospital emergency room departments. Seven sources are cited in the bibliography....

ER Application of the Self Care Deficit Theory Developed by Dorothea Orem

Emergency rooms are, at least in many cases, the primary health care provider to the underinsured and uninsured patient (Isenstein...

New Jersey's Health Care Delivery System and Its Problems

governor should strive to at least make a dent in the problem in the next four years. It seems that the most pertinent problems ar...

Emergency Room Decision Making

attack if irreparable harm and indeed loss of life is to be prevented (Isenstein, 1999). The statistics regarding coronar...

Emergency Room Case Management Structural Development

Upon entering the ER via any means - whether walk-in or ambulance-delivered - the patient will see a triage nurse who will then as...

Literature Review of Emergency Preparedness in Puerto Rico

for tsunamis. In short, Puerto Rico, though considered an "island paradise" is rife for all kinds of natural disasters, pa...

View of E.M. Forster's Room with a View

In five pages this paper discusses a young woman's healthy development as presented in E.M. Forster's Victorian novel Room with a ...

Comparing System Theories in Nursing

and enables a holistic view" (Edelman, 2000; p. 179). In Neumans case, rather than existing as an autonomous and distinctly forme...

Descriptive Essay: A Favorite Room

and the third is the overall ambiance. Props help bring a scene to life. I spent a lot of time at Good Will and resale shops to ...

EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLAN - DALLAS, TX

properties. More often, severe storms light up the spring skies in April and May, and then comes the summer, the heat and drought....

EMERGENCY PREPARATION: ELMONT, NEW YORK

Discusses emergency preparedness in Elmont, NY. There are 3 sources listed in the bibliography of this 3-page paper....

Overview of Operation Provide Comfort of 1991 to 1996

In eight pages this paper discusses the refugee relief provided by the United Nation's Operation Provide Comfort from April of 199...

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...

Kolcaba Comfort Theory and Hospice

of ones life, and identify; the environmental context is related to external experiences, such as temperature and noise; and the ...