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UTIs Pressure Sores Pneumonia in the Elderly

higher risk for UTIs than others. Risks include older age, poor hygiene, and/or poor hydration. Two of the greatest risks can be p...

The Elderly, Medications for Hypertension and Depression

This research paper presents a discussion of prescription, non-prescription and herbal drugs that can be utilized in treating the...

Evaluating a Nursing Educational Program

The writer looks at the way in which a nursing program may be evaluated to provide instant results. The tool advocated is a self c...

The Elderly and Driving Behavior

A gerontological issue that is relevant in today's society involves driving. This paper examines studies on driving as it respect...

Review of Achievements in the Development and Implementation of Nursing Program to Reduce Falls

The writer reviews an intervention program designed by the student to assess and reduce risks with the aim of preventing falls in ...

Risks in the Home that Impact on Fall Rates

The writer looks at literature which has been used to identify different risks in the home environment that may impact on the fall...

How Osteoporosis Affects the Elderly

This essay discusses osteoporosis - what it is, risks, and incidence. It does so in the context of a film entitled Fire in the Dar...

Drug Interactions among the Elderly

This research paper describes 3 prescription, non-prescriptive and alternative/complementary drugs that can be used to address dep...

Health Care: Challenges in Caring for a Diverse Population, and Dealing with Colleagues of Different Ages

to proper interaction with culturally diverse patients: "These standards provide comprehensive definitions of culture, competence,...

Robert Frost/The Road Not Taken

of the forest as "yellow" tells the reader that the time of year is autumn. This signifies the time of life for the narrator. Fros...

Health Care: Changing The Way Services Are Delivered And Improving Quality Of Care

hospitals to reevaluate the way in which patient care is delivered and quality of care is approached, while at the same time find ...

Managed Care's Pros and Cons

In eleven pages this paper discuses PPOs and HMOs in an evaluation of these managed care system's pros and cons. Twelve sources a...

Field of Nursing and Managed Health Care's Impact

In two pages this paper examines the nursing field and the growing complexities involving managed health care. Two sources are ci...

HEALTH CARE AND MANAGED CARE: AN ANALYSIS

were those who didnt like the "gatekeeper" mentality, the fact that any referral or recommendation needed to come from a "primary ...

Nursing and the Importance of Intensive Care and Critical Care Skills

the non-emergency sections of the hospital or when they are in the doctors office or the resident clinic! Heart attacks happen! ...

Gary Pisano's 'Partners Health Care System, Inc.,(B): Cardiac Care Improvement

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

Senior Citizens and Short Term Care as Opposed to Long Term Care

older our bodies begin to simply wear out. The modern marvels of medicine can patch up many of our creaks and groans, it can even...

Literature Review on Hospice Care's Underutilization

facility is (2000). Most also are not aware that Medicare pays for hospice facilities (2000). This article is important in pointi...

The Affordable Care Act: An Examination of Health Care Policy

at both the federal and state level. This also holds true for the health care industry, and perhaps more so because of the impactf...

Dementia

emotional (limbic) memories are affected, and the last group of memories to be affected as the "motor or more reptilian memories,"...

Test-Taking Skills

considerable pressure on the students involved. Literature Review Hong, Sas and Sas (2006) conducted a study in order to investi...

Forensic Psychiatric Nursing

endeavor. Nursing in any context requires a detailed knowledge of individual patients. Specifically, a forensic nurse will have a...

Managing For Results Economic Tasks and Risk Taking Decisions by Peter F. Drucker

often up to a handful of individuals, all of whom must possess the learned art of managing for results if those results are to occ...

Life of Robert Frost Reflected in the Poem 'The Road Not Taken'

In six pages this paper analyzes the ways in which Robert Frost's life is reflected in his poem 'The Road Not Taken.' Three sourc...

American Society's Pros and Cons in Taking Sides

In ten pages this paper summarizes the text on American social issues entitled Taking Sides. There are no other sources listed....

It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton

In five pages Clinton's insightful view of bringing up children in contemporary society is considered as it presents an effective ...

What it Takes to Change

5 pages and 2 sources. This paper provides an overview of what it might take to change the future and improve a life. Though man...

The 1920s, When Everything Was for the Taking at a Price

and solidarity that was almost impossible in society at large, increasingly racist and dominated by whites. These clubs and instit...

World Hunger and Taking Responsibility

security. " Underlying inequities - this sounds like a quiz doesnt it? That means that some of the things that we, in the United ...

The Pre-Existent Divine Word Or Son Took On Human Nature

Father, as being from above, and other such phrases (Kasper, 1978, p. 173). Jesus was in all ways like us with one great exceptio...