748 Search Results for Nursing Practice Searching for Evidence
Periodontal disease and respiratory disease: A systematic review of the evidence," Agado & Bowen (2012) perform a systematic review or meta-analysis style of research to determine whether there is a correlation between periodontal disease and pne Continue Reading...
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According to Kane and Houston-Vega, Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia and manifests as "an insidious memory impairment, with other possible symptoms including aphasia, apraxia, agnosia, and disturbances in executive functi Continue Reading...
With the rapid increase in the research conducted on health sciences, there is difficulty for researchers and clinicians to be up-to-date with the studies. Therefore, reviews that give a summary of the impact of different intervention experiments are Continue Reading...
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Critique of a Literature Review: Obesity Prevention Interventions for Middle-School Age Children of Ethnic Minority: A Review of the Literature
Are the search strategy and the search criteria clear? What is included in the search cr Continue Reading...
Ethical Issues Surrounding Abortion
Notwithstanding the laws being passed in various states against a woman's right to chose to terminate her pregnancy, the position of this paper is that Roe v. Wade is the law of the land and a woman has the ethica Continue Reading...
Treatments of Bulimia Nervosa
THE BEST OPTION
Evaluation of Combined Therapy for Bulimia Nervosa
Description and Significance
Bulimia nervosa, simply bulimia or BN, refers to uncontrolled overeating or binging and then eliminating what has been e Continue Reading...
The subject is now part of a national political task force, with the goal of eliminating the problem within one generation (Ferran, 2010).
Formally, teen pregnancy is based on a woman who will not reach her 20th birthday by the expected birth of he Continue Reading...
Elderly Women Diagnosed with Nonspecific Chest Pain May be at Increased Cardiovascular Risk" is succinct, but it does convey the scope of the research in a very few words. It gives the three main variables around which the article is based.
The abs Continue Reading...
experts would likely agree with the very general statement that individuals who exercise, or who implement an exercise regime, are much more likely to lose weight and alleviate pain experienced from a variety of diseases and maladies. It would seem Continue Reading...
Pandemic Flu
Apart from the seasonal influenza epidemics caused by antigenic drifts, a significant change in the virus's virulence through antigenic shifts has been a major source of concern for healthcare professionals. These new strains may reach Continue Reading...
While this is an important first step, the overall bureaucracy of the hospital could pose problem over the long-term. To mitigate this situation, the hospital could implement a program of randomly monitoring the various departments that score poorly Continue Reading...
Leadership, according to La Monica (1938), is when a person has authority that is recognized by others, and the person has followers/subordinates under them, who believe that the person will assist them in attaining certain goals (carrying out speci Continue Reading...
voluntary, collaborative and active involvement of the patient in a course of behaviour that is mutually accepted in order to gain therapeutic result (Michael, H. et al., 2009). According to this definition it can be clearly observed that the patien Continue Reading...
Moreover, it is unclear whether Jim has attempted to reestablish any meaningful contact with his children; rather, his entire focus has been on becoming a better person. While there is certainly nothing wrong with that goal in and of itself (it is, Continue Reading...
Educational Situations
Name four practices that commonly require written administrative procedures.
Memorandums that include school policy changes or important information for the staff are commonly distributed in writing so that the information is Continue Reading...
Extant literature has been dedicated to the evaluation of closed head injuries using the Canadian Scale and New Orleans criteria for Adult patients in rural areas.The work of Stielle et al. (2005) explored the comparison of the Canadian CT head rule Continue Reading...
Virginity
Origin of the Topic
The most common origin of virginity is derived from Christianity. Christianity teaches that sex before marriage is wrong. Sex should only occur between a man and a woman who are married. Sex outside of marriage is co Continue Reading...
hospice nurses cope with patients at end of life and death?
Nursing is an emotional job since nurses' experience emotions and feelings towards their patients. On top of having the clinical skills of nursing, end-of-life care requires skills to deal Continue Reading...
Flick et al., 2010
To determine nurses awareness that activities can reduce daytime sleepiness for patients and increase the quality of sleep during the night in nursing homes and the consequences of this awareness
Case-control study
32 nurses and ca Continue Reading...
Intradialytic Weight Gain Management for Dialysis Patients
The project seeks to improve intradialytic weight gain (IDWG) management in hemodialysis dependent patients by 10% through an education program in 12 weeks. The projects aim is to develop a Continue Reading...
Patient Privacy Policies: Search Strategy and SummaryToday, nursing professionals play a vital role in the provision of high-quality patient care, and possessing strong research skills is crucial for nursing professionals to remain up-to-date with th Continue Reading...
Alternatives to Pain Medication
Given the growing concerns over opioid addictions in recent years and the potential for tolerance, clinicians continue to search for efficacious alternatives to convention pain medications (Moore & Anderson, 2016) Continue Reading...
Asian-Americans with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes perceive barriers to implementing dietary and lifestyles changes to reduce A1C levels in the first 3 months after diagnosis"?
Method of obtaining necessary approval(s) and securing support from y Continue Reading...
Huntington's disease (HD) was the first autonomic dominant disorder for which genetic prediction became possible" (Harper, et al., 2000, Journal of Medical Genetics, p. 567). HD is a disease that occurs due to an inherited disorder leading to the dea Continue Reading...
Skills for Complex Concepts
Skills for Handling Complex Concepts
There are various kinds of skills needed for handling of jobs. The three essential skills are human skills, technical skills, and conceptual skills. Human skills entail interpersonal Continue Reading...
How Shared Decision-Making and Critical Thinking are Impacted by TechnologyToday, innovations in healthcare technology have revolutionized the manner in which clinicians of all ilk practice, and current trends indicate that the pace of these innovati Continue Reading...
Gouveia, Gouveia, Hale et al. (2017)
"Correlates of health-related quality of life in young-old and old -- old community-dwelling older adults"
Although the authors framed the research problem of interest in terms of the purpose of the study, the Continue Reading...
Smoking Cessation Interventions
Psychosocial and Pharmacological Interventions on Smoking
Of the many causes of death in the world, coronary heart disease (CHD) remains one of the top global killers with an estimated 7.2 million people dying each y Continue Reading...
Figure 1 portrays three of the scenes 20/20 presented March 15, 2010.
Figure 1: Heather, Rachel, and Unnamed Girl in 20/20 Program (adapted from Stossel, 2010).
Statement of the Problem
For any individual, the death of a family member, friend, pa Continue Reading...
Quality of Life Among Tawau Hospital Sufering From
Knee Osteoarthritis With Physiotherapy
Qualitative study of How Quality of Life of Tawau Hospital Staff
Suffering from Knee Osteoarthritis have been improved at Physiotherapy Unit.
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Compliance
Patient compliance is not always easy to obtain and it is frustrating when patients fail to follow recommendations and instructions. In addition, nurses and physicians tend to expect compliance while there is plenty of evidence derived f Continue Reading...
(2010).
Transactional leaders use the extrinsic motivators, to get goals met within an organization, as stated by Suliman (2009). This type of leadership used internal reward or punishment mechanisms to get employees to follow their directive. Tran Continue Reading...
Psychiatric Patients and Mechanical Restraints
Mechanical restraints are one of the most controversial aspects of psychiatric care. The aversion to using them no doubt dates back to the popularity of films like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which Continue Reading...
The subjects were adolescents 14-18 years old. They were recruited from schools and health clinics. The subjects completed an in-depth survey and interview at baseline and again 6 months later. The subsequent analyses were limited to adolescents wit Continue Reading...
Childhood type II diabetes and obesity
Which three databases will you use?
CINAL
Medline
ProQuest
Search each database, using key words, for relevant research on this subject. What key words did you use in the Search Strategy fields? Include al Continue Reading...
Caring for People With Dementia
Older patients suffering from dementia admitted at care facilities are not accorded the best of care because of their complex needs. This category of patients struggle with progressive cognitive decline, functional de Continue Reading...
The other dimension is related but is definitely separate. Some end-users are not only uninformed on how to administer electronic health records, they may actively resist and otherwise undermine the setup and these people need to be identified or e Continue Reading...
Responsibilities of a Multi-Disciplinary Team
Summative Assessment
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Melody a thirty-four-year-old female he was born on March 12th 1989 She is a single woman with no children and lives in Aaron's Hall District in Brooklyn. Continue Reading...
If the archetype associated with a particular family relationship is deemed, when looked at constructively, to be one that is competitive as apposed to collaborative or "carative" and the competitive nature of the relationship degrades patient relat Continue Reading...