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Pressure Ulcers/Changing Care

change and its rationale (which was based on the results of empirical research), implemented the change and then "supported the c...

From Mouth to Excretion and the Digestion of a Glass of Milk and Ham Sandwich

In ten pages the processes of digestion that take place after an average meal of a ham sandwich and a glass of milk are considered...

Overview of the Helicobacter pylori Bacterium

In six pages this paper discusses how this bacterium that causes ulcers also has some positive aspects as well. Five sources are ...

Pressure Ulcers and Nursing Research

Of course it is not only the unacceptable nursing home that has escaped the attention of regulatory agencies in which pressure ulc...

Analysis of Costs of Decubitus Ulcers in Elder Care Facilities

Furthermore, if the ulcers end up in hospitalization, the nursing home is responsible for those costs as well. Even if the patient...

Overview of the Painful Condition Known as Venous Leg Ulcers

of a pulmonary embolus" are warning signs that his patient may experience venous leg ulcers (RCN Institute, 1998). Complicating f...

Stetler Model and Decision Making

studies have reported more satisfactory results for the Norton and Braden scales, but that the researchers nonetheless "have confi...

Decubitus Ulcers and Nursing Shortage

1999). Elderly patients who are alert, and not declared incompetent, have the right to refuse treatment, which includes turning or...

Pressure Sore or Ulcer Treatment and Prevention Research

In fifteen pages this paper applies wound assessment teams, Braden and PSST assessment tools to the consideration of the U.S. pres...

Literature Review on Pressure Sores or Ulcers

In ten pages this paper presents an extensive literature review on the topic of pressure ulcers or sores. Fifteen sources are cit...

Pressure Ulcer Assessment, Article Critique

the Feuchtinger, Halfens and Dassen (2007) study report in order to evaluate its validity and applicability to nursing science and...

Pros and Cons of QII

of projects is critical to the success elements affecting the Six Sigma program (Antony 3). Prioritization is often based on subje...

Electrical Stimulation For Chronic, Non-healing Wounds Literature Review

or slowly the body is able to heal itself, which is why the elderly often have considerable difficulty with chronic wounds. The s...

PRESSURE ULCERS, HAC AND PREVENTION

which to do this. Pressure Ulcers and the Hospital Acquired Condition The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as w...

Hospital Disclosure

hospital is not exactly easy, and in some cases impossible." This would suggest that Auers (2006) reported average of five percent...

Quality Improvement/Pressure Ulcers

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

Duodenal Ulcer And Gastric Cancer

p. 920). However, it is noted that people could have this very bacterium living in their GI tract and never get an ulcer (NLM/NIH...

Pressure Ulcers; Risk Management

In 1997 it is estimated the pressure ulcers cost the Australian healthcare system A$350 million and with patients that develop ulc...

'Pressure Ulcers: Prevalence, Staging, and Assessment of Risk' Critiqued

is its significance to nursing. Introduction The authors begin their article with identification of the problem on which th...