In this way, any concerns that could come up and be problematic will be avoided and the information contained in the study can be accepted as being reliable, valid, and unique. As has been mentioned, limitations are too often overlooked in studies, Continue Reading...
American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses Why Organization Exists Community Interaction Effect on Society Organization's Effect on Social Change Structure Power and Outcomes Leadership Decision Making Communications Change Environments and Continue Reading...
Diabetes According to Waryasz & McDermott (2009), the global prevalence of diabetes among people aged between 20 and 79 rose to 6.4% affecting 285 million people in 2010 and the rate will rise to 7.7% affecting 439 million people by 2030. Amid 2 Continue Reading...
But there will also be situations where clinicians are asked to discuss with a patient whether they want to or should have resuscitation if they have had a cardiac arrest or life-threatening arrhythmia. The potential likelihood for clinical benefit Continue Reading...
Physician-Assisted Death Importance of Physician Assisted Deaths My Ethical Position on Physician Assisted Deaths as a Nurse The Legal Risks for Nurses The Opposing View Summary of Arguments in Favor of My Position Importance of Physician-Assis Continue Reading...
Nurses Turnover among nurses is a result of dissatisfaction with the workplace. This dissatisfaction could be because of low pay, poor working conditions, and lack of motivation to work as well as a general feeling of disregard for their interests. Continue Reading...
clinical cases and examine malpractice perspectives. Background Info Concerns over mounting healthcare expenses have resulted in increased inquiry into medical practices. With the rise of malpractice risk and medical liability to unprecedented lev Continue Reading...
Al-Sawai, A. (2013). Leadership of Healthcare Professionals: Where Do We Stand?. Oman Medical Journal, 28(4), 285-287 3p. doi:10. 5001/omj.2013.79 This study defines leadership as behavior that drives a group towards an identified goal, and it desc Continue Reading...
Migrant Health Problems Understanding the Migrant Health Problem Currently access to health and social services for the majority of migrants is based on their legal status. Needless to say undocumented migrants have little or no access to health c Continue Reading...
Technology in Medicine: Distant Medical Surveillance Technology for Diabetics in the Less Developed Area of Texas An estimated 26 million Americans live with diabetes. When not properly treated, diabetes could be fatal as it occupies the seventh po Continue Reading...
Sloan Kettering Healthcare Website The Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City is "the world's oldest and largest private cancer center" (About Us, 2016) and has a website that is accessible by all users. Its home page displays a series of al Continue Reading...
16). Some of the options available to patients are (p. 16): What it Is Colgate Total Over-the-counter tooth- triclosan and fluoride paste containing the anti- toothpaste bacterial triclosan Peridex or generic Prescription mouth rinse chlorhexidi Continue Reading...
(Thomas, 1999, p. 66) The four aspects of health profiling are; 1.collecting and analysing information2. selecting priorities for action 3. choosing nursing activities, including methods of working, for selected priorities 4. evaluating nursing pra Continue Reading...
Pediatric Asthma Asthma is a debilitating condition caused by unspecified reasons. As such prevention, control and diagnosis becomes difficult. In addition, symptoms may vary largely. Cultural and ethnic beliefs and remedies add to the complexity, m Continue Reading...
elective or emergency childbirth, a choice between general and local anesthesia is often called for. Cognizing the surroundings helps the birthing process. Therefore, a local anesthetic administered via an intrathecal spinal injection or through a c Continue Reading...
McLaughlin and McLaughlin (2015) indicate that societal values, medico-societal issues, and political issues, among other factors, impact health policy and analysis of health policy. Please explain, giving examples, why you agree or disagree with thi Continue Reading...
Experts believe that this is due to overall better care that reduces the need for expensive treatment. The future of dental care will also expand in the area of cosmetic care. Today, more than ever before in American history people are coming to th Continue Reading...
controversial concepts is the proposed solution to the healthcare system in the U.S. is the movement towards a single payer system similar, to the systems found in virtually every other advanced nation in the world. The Affordable Care Act was argue Continue Reading...
Quality of Life Measures Quality of life is measured using a variety of surveys. The most common of these surveys is the Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36), which measures several categories of physical functioning, as well as containing a Mental Heal Continue Reading...
oral daclatasvir plus asunaprevir for hepatitis C virus genotype 1b Overview of current therapy The treatment setting for chronic hepatitis C has gone through an upheaval, above all in genotype 1. However, the exception is the continuity of interf Continue Reading...
Overview Human immunodeficiency virus - HIV continues to be a serious health concern across the world. In essence, HIV brings about harm to the body of an individual by destroying infection fighting white blood cells. Not all persons with HIV end up 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...
Ethics The Terri Schiavo case was an unusual incident where a person who should have been removed from life support long ago was sustained due to federal and public intervention. The case instigates moral and ethical questions of decision to end lif Continue Reading...
Patient Identifiers The Importance of Patient Identifiers Adverse events as a consequence of medical treatment are now recognized to be a significant source of morbidity and mortality around the world (World Health Organization [WHO], 2005). Somewh Continue Reading...
psychiatrist, Viktor Frankl, while suffering numerous hardships in his life as a prisoner of war in a Nazi work camp that included being isolated from the rest of the world including his family along with the prospect of facing at the hands of his c Continue Reading...
Falls THE ISSUE OF ACCIDENTAL FALLS At some point, anyone who had learned how to walk has had the experience of falling down -- it is a universal experience for infants as they gain ambulatory ability. In hospitals, however, the accidental fall is Continue Reading...
While it may not be just to hold an organization liable, absolutely, for every instance of employee negligence, there is a rationale for imposing such liability in many cases. For example, many types of industries entail potential danger to others t 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...
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...
Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAPHPS) The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems gives consumers a chance to compare the available health cares around the country and to decide on what c Continue Reading...
Health Care Information Technology Changes in health information technology Healthcare and Information Technology Information Technology (IT) can be briefly defined as "the branch of engineering that deals with the use of computers and telecommuni Continue Reading...
Capturing the anguish and agony which consumes those caring for loved ones at the end of life is an exceedingly difficult task, but essayists Katy Butler and Rachel Riederer have harnessed their unique literary abilities in vastly different ways to a Continue Reading...
However...generally a vast difference exists between what healthcare providers understand and what laypersons are able to comprehend. This immeasurability of knowledge was evident in the participants' narratives and was exacerbated by the conveying Continue Reading...
Stated to be barriers in the current environment and responsible for the reporting that is inadequate in relation to medical errors are: Lack of a common understanding about errors among health care professionals Physicians generally think of erro Continue Reading...
