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Personal Electronic Patient Record

as long as they know whos records they are looking for and how to access them. The next stage from this that avoids the delays eve...

Ethical Treatment of Patients and the 1975 Film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

some of the inmates to play poker with pornographic cards. He smuggles hookers in for several of the ward mates, and he threatens ...

Critical Incident Analysis in Nurse Management

and certainly health care facilities. In essence, the minimum requirements of nursing dictate that: * the nurse remain cognizant ...

Patient Consent Issues

clear that the patient is taking part in a decision-making process, and not simply signing a form. In practical terms, of course, ...

ICU Patients and Communication

"ICU syndrome" (Elliot and Wright, 1999). In its milder form, ICU syndrome was characterized by the presence of confusion and memo...

Treatment to Sustain Life and Patient's Refusal

best way to appease both the law and the public; its dynamic decision about whether to include doctor-assisted suicide and volunta...

Software for Health Information Management

The Clinical Workstation Application of the 3M(tm) Care Innovation Expert Applications system focuses on providing clinicians and ...

Treatment in Home and in Hospital for Acute Conditions Advantages and Disadvantages

level of problems for inpatients was 20.9% compared to only 8.4% for outpatients (Wilson et al, 2002). When asked to rate the serv...

The History and Mission of Tripler Army Medical Center

facility grew to over 1,000 beds and the addition of a many barracks-style buildings. The design for a new facility began in 1942 ...

Training, Teamwork and Benefits in Patient Care

with physicians to "Yes, doctor," the still-proceeding transitions in healthcare continue to elevate the position of nurse while n...

Elderly Citizens and Considerations for Community Health Care

the near future, however. This presents potentially severe consequences for the economics of elder care. The stakeholders in this...

Postsurgical Patient Care

indwelling foley and compression boot. Her dressing is dry and intact. She was discharged with Percocet 5mg q6. Analysis and Out...

Health Care Providers, the Patient, and the Patient Self Determination Act

policies in regard to the PSDA. I have been fortunate in that I was chosen to be a member of that team. Consequently, I have at ...

Nursing Home Admissions' Perception versus Reality

to a nursing facility, it should also be understood that each situation is unique. When both the family members and the staff of t...

Ethical Analysis of Wrong Extremity Amputation

consent must be made through a signed legal document (Retsas and Forrester, 1995). In all cases consent must be freely and volunt...

Patient Education That Are Both Successful and Unsuccessful

of her post-polio syndrome left her unable to completely void her urine, which in turn led to the development of further UTIs. Da...

Nonadherence to Medical Instructions: Walker and Avant

issue via conceptual analysis, inasmuch as Walker and Avant provide specific steps that allow one to wholly define the ambiguous a...

Pain Management for the Elderly

has been estimated that between 49 and 83 percent of all elderly adults experience pain on a regular basis (Briggs, 2003). Desbi...

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...

My Head Says Yes But My Heart Says No Cognitive And Affective Attraction As A Function Of Similarity To The Ideal Self by Herbst et al

of repulsion" (). Many social psychologists would readily agree that human interaction is always representational of joint...

Radiation Therapists and the Effects of Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy

significant (1998). This means that the radiation therapist will need to be well versed in this new technology. Additional trainin...

Pregnant Women and the Cessation of Smoking

deaths not caused by congenital anomalies in the United States (Wheeler, 1994). Links between low-birth weight births and premat...

Counseling Sessions and Content Influencing

scenario: a 28-year old man arrives at his counseling session. The first session is the interview during which time, the man expla...

Ethics and a Medical Malpractice Case Study

However, this feeble attempt at legal protection goes directly against another California law - termed a crime of sexual exploitat...

The therapeutic alliance in relation to CBT

this criticism is linked to the CBT process and the application of CBT in changing problematic behaviors. CBT focuses on the fact...

Massage and Shoulder Pain

of spasms and other complications that have bothered the client for over five years. Next the client should be asked "What ...

Massage Therapy as Alternative Pain Management

benefits that massage therapy provides for CF patients includes "pain relief, relaxation, improved pulmonary function, decreased a...

Depression And Cognitive Therapy

in therapy (Martin, 2007). Because the thoughts involved cognitive processing, Beck identified the process as cognitive therapy (...

Person-Centered Counseling

are at the moment limited in what they can achieve for themselves. That something might be external to them rather than internal. ...

Behaviorist Model

frequency of the behavior; the fixed-interval schedule provides reinforcement after a certain amount of time as long as the person...