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regards to lung function. If patients cannot breath on their own, RTs are trained on how to intubate patients and connect them to ...

reporting and administrative reporting so that the owner can have confidence that HHH is providing superlative patient care and me...

a "collaborative quality improvement project" that focuses on PUs in nursing homes as its primary focus (Lynn, et al, 2007). QIOs,...

in the home and individuals suffering from dementia. The background literature review sites a wide range of sources, including res...

The writer looks at a research article by Lach and Chang (2007) entitled Caregiver Perspectives on Safety in Home Dementia Care" p...

the age 65 have hypertension (Sirkin and Rosner 2009, p. 402). Hypertension leads to a lesser quality of life for the patient and ...

provided in their own home. Services offered include, but are not limited to, general nursing services, physical and occupational ...

number of patients, in other words) and the incidence of injury at nursing homes, making this correlation a worthwhile problem to ...

computerized or electronic patient records. 1c. To discuss these findings with supervisor/mentor to consider how the information...

and how this equipment should differ for this population: Bariatric patients are typically defined as those who are extremely obe...

dependency upon others for assisted daily living skills, and institutional care. Rockwood (1997) defined frail elderly people as t...

In eight pages this paper discusses nursing homes for long term care in a consideration of choices, features, and transitional rec...

In six pages this research paper examines the nursing home industry and considers the increasing costs of patient care due to an e...

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

This paper summarizes and analyzes a qualitative Norwegian study that examined the experiences of home care nurses in regards to f...

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

11 pages and 11 sources. This paper provides an overview of the transformation of views on death and dying in the 20th century. ...

the fact that Americans demand extraordinary health care but refuse to pay for it; that medical science is now able to extend life...

income" (Helms, 2001). The policy was established during WWII at a time when providing health care to workers was relatively inex...

have deleterious effects on the health outcomes of the residents in these areas. Many researchers have arrived at the same conclus...

because he feels that providing them with samples, albeit illegally, is better than letting this impromptu clinic continue. This p...

some determining the study was inconclusive, others saying certain interventions should be made universal and still others stating...

nations employ many Afghans. On April 29-30, 2007, Afghanistan held the Fourth Afghanistan Development Forum (ADF) in Kabul (Afg...

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

This essay focuses on Watson's nursing theory of caring. It reports and explains the meta-paradigms, caratives, and how nurses dev...

established that nurses are often involved in the "timely identification of complications," which, if acted upon swiftly, prevent ...

much broader in its application. It is this broadness that allows nurses to reach across religious lines and distinctions. In a su...

lawyers, uncaring nurses and pedophile clergy is to cut back on scientific research--a tenuous conclusion at best. Where the art...

the mountains in California, ride a horse in the Grand Canyon, volunteer in a cancer center, finish painting his house, attend his...

a specialized body of knowledge, skills and experience that enables these nurses to offer a high standard of care to critically il...