The holistic view of the human being (i.e. The patient) and the environment is in some ways an echo of the holistic nature of the theory itself, which quite consciously and explicitly attempted to develop a theory appropriate to all aspects and situ Continue Reading...
Patient Satisfaction There are a number of concerns faced by patients in the hospital. One that is not often discussed but that can play a real factor in treatment is the burnout experienced by nurses. Even during short-term hospitalization, the bur Continue Reading...
Confidence is a golden trait that can provide useful if not in all, than at least most situations any single person may experience. Confidence essentially includes having the ability to successfully negotiate any given task with grace, precision and Continue Reading...
In all, a total of 5317 shifts were studied of which 2,057 shifts were for more than 12.5 hours. Within the 28-day period of the study two thirds of the nurses reported to have worked overtime 10 times or even more. There were a total of 199 reporte Continue Reading...
Penington, P., Caminniti, S., Schein, J.R., Hewitt, D.J., & Nelson, W.W. (2009). Patients' Assessment of the Convenience of Fentanyl HCl Iontophoretic Transdermal System (ITS) Versus Morphine Intravenous Patient- Controlled Analgesia (IV PCA) in Continue Reading...
Doris examined the claim that hand hygiene education and individual feedback on hand hygiene frequency and method enhances hand hygiene frequency and improves nurses’ methodology scores of hand hygiene as stated by Chun et al. (2014). The evalu Continue Reading...
Introduction One of the goals of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to increase the practice of preventive medicine (Obama, 2016). As preventive care is less common in the health care industry in the U.S. than is the practice of treating patient Continue Reading...
ALTERNATIVE PAIN MANAGEMENT THERAPYAlternative Pain Management Therapy: Non-Pharmacological Approaches vs. Pharmacological MethodsIntroductionAlthough it happens to be uncomfortable for most people, pain could be considered an instrumental human body Continue Reading...
T-TESTS AND ANOVAAssignment: t-Tests and ANOVAIntroductionThe current paper aims to apply a statistical analysis technique through the t-test and ANOVA test, which aid in making inferences about the sample parameter. In basic terms, inferential stati Continue Reading...
PARAMETRIC AND NONPARAMETRIC TESTSMethodology: Research ProposalFrom the onset, it would be prudent to note that there are a number of differences that exist between parametric and nonparametric tests. To begin with, one key deference between these t Continue Reading...
Scenario 3: Falls Prevention Research Question: What is the effectiveness of exercise-based interventions in reducing falls in older adults living in residential care facilities? Paper 1 (300 words): The study by Lim, Cho, Kim, Kim and Yoon (2017) fo Continue Reading...
Medical Conditions -- There are a number of factors that can increase the likelyhood of type-2 diabetes: hypertension, eleveted cholesterol, and a condition called Symdrome X, or metabolic syndrome (combination of obesity, high cholesterol, sedenta Continue Reading...
FREQUENCY AND DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICSFrequency and Descriptive StatisticsIntroductionStatistical analysis has been applied to various fields. These are inclusive of, but they are not limited to; health sciences, social sciences, and physical sciences. Continue Reading...
The quantitative design of the research study conducted by Allen, Holland and Reynolds (2015) as depicted in their article “The Effect of Bullying on Burnout in Nurses: The Moderating Role of Psychological Detachment” in the Journal of Ad Continue Reading...
Yu et al., 2014 Non-targeted research, quantitative 996 males Kruskal-Wallis H Test Obstructive sleep apnea correlated with males (but not females) with hypertension None stated Scheers-Anderson et al., 2015 Secondary Research/Literature Revi Continue Reading...
Difficulties that Elderly People Encounter and Their Life Satisfaction," which was published within the scholarly journal Social Behavior and Personality in 2008, social scientists Kasim Karatas and Veli Duyan analyze the level of life satisfaction Continue Reading...
nursing, and then provide some analysis to those different articles. The first article is " The Effects of Massage Therapy on Pain Management in the Acute Care Setting" by Adams, White and Beckett (2010). The intention of the this article was to st Continue Reading...
ICU Delirium Search of Literature for Evidence One of the most crucial elements towards conducting a high-quality research is conducting an effective and valid search of literature for evidence. The search of literature for evidence is defined as a Continue Reading...
The Aging Population and Dementia Introduction Dementia is generally defined as a problem that impacts the elderly population and includes “impairments in cognitive and intellectual ability, memory, language, reasoning, and judgment that interf Continue Reading...
More importantly, however, contemporary realists differ from Nightingale in four main areas, those of theistic assumption, methods of research, determinism, and naturalism. While contemporary realists certainly agree with Nightingale's position tha Continue Reading...
credentials and affiliation? The one person named was Jane McCausland Kurz. She is an Registered Nurse and a PhD at Temple University in Philadelphia. Did the researcher/s received funding that supported this research? That was not disclosed. The Continue Reading...
size is an important consideration with regards to data collection for statistical analysis in a study. Sample size plays an important role in a research process since the identification of a suitable sample size for statistical analysis is crucial Continue Reading...
Hourly Rounds Effectiveness as a Solution The proposed solution of increasing and monitoring hourly nursing rounds to help reduce falls, prevent ulcers and increased call light use is being brought into question in this essay to highlight its effec Continue Reading...
For example, if one case study is presented per week in the curriculum, this could be "dosed up" by presenting two or three case studies per week to the classes in the intervention group. This could have the desired effect of increasing the expected Continue Reading...
RepliesJosephAs I read your post I was reminded of a verse from the book of Proverbs that says, "The simple believe anything, but the prudent give thought to their steps" (Proverbs 14:15, NIV). This verse emphasizes the importance of carefully consid Continue Reading...
Internal and external consistency was tested. A pilot study showed that there was internal consistency. However, the results of the larger study indicate that more work on the KAESAD to improve the internal consistency of the scales used to measure Continue Reading...
Qualitative measurements constitute a broad class of the available measurement techniques, and are seen as of an increasing importance in nursing (Niaz 2009). Statistics, which even applied to qualitative data necessarily quantifies results, is alm Continue Reading...
JC5 Research Articl2: Draft Marzia Bamiani Career Choice Undecided Group Theme Huntington's Disease Combined treatment with the mood stabilizers lithium and valproate produces multiple beneficial effects in transgenic mouse models of Huntington Continue Reading...
Interning at an Addiction Rehab Facility Strategies of Care within Addiction Rehab Facilities There is no other time that one needs help more than when in the context of facing a drug addiction. It is important than our modern facilities be able to 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...
Sigma methodology to help lower patient length of stay while simultaneously improving financial and patient health outcomes. This paper first discusses the theoretical basis for this, outlining the Six Sigma methodology. Its history in health care a Continue Reading...
Monitoring Why is it important for the CRA to understand the data management and statistical analysis plans? What exceptions might there be? The clinical research associate (CRA) has the main role and responsibility of carefully selecting fitting Continue Reading...
PICOT In critically ill adults (p), how does the daily use of chlorohexidine (I) compared to sterile water reduce VAP (ventilator-associated pneumonia) (O) during hospitalized stay (T). Part 2 Identifying a Problem Of the infections acquired by pa Continue Reading...
Summary of Common and Conflicting Findings Hart, Bergquist, Gajewski & Dunton (2006); Gunningberg (2005); Wipke-Tevis, Williams, Rantz, Popejoy, Madsen, Petroski & Vogelsmeier (2004); and Vanderwee, Grypdonck, DeBacquer & Defloor (2006 Continue Reading...
Safety of Laser Eye Surgery Prior to the advent of laser technology, ophthalmologists relied purely on mechanical means of surgically correcting myopia (nearsightedness), hyperopia (far sightedness), and astigmatism. Automated Lamellar Keratectomy Continue Reading...
