Nursing and Healthcare Essays

Future of Healthcare Technology: PACS
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Introduction: PACS is the healthcare technology of the future. “A picture archiving and communication system (PACS) is a computerized means of replacing the role of conventional radiological film: images are acqu...

Pregnancy and Advanced Maternal Age
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Introduction: As more women focus on their careers, more women are getting pregnant and having children after the age of 35 years old, which means in the medical field that they are placed in a group of mothers tha...

Significance of Evidence Based Practice in Nursing
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Introduction: Nursing is a profession accountable to society for providing high quality cost-effective care for patients and their families (Burns & Grove, 2007). This assignment will define evidence based pra...

The Impact of Education on Economic Cost of Diabetes
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Introduction: Diabetes mellitus is undeniably a global epidemic. Development of drugs and other health care tools for the treatment of diabetes patients are in full swing all over the world, yet, little attention i...

Dignity in Care for Adults with Learning Disabilities
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Introduction: The primary aim of the proposed research is to analyse the meaning, perceptions and quality of dignity in healthcare with respect to adults who have learning disabilities in the United Kingdom and stu...

Symptoms of Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC)
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Introduction: Pathophysiology Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) is an acquired syndrome that occurs when a stimulus pathologically activates intravascular coagulation and fibrinolysis resulting in an unb...

Causes of Road Traffic Accidents (RTA)
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Introduction: Road accident fatalities are one of the major causes of death and injuries in Malaysia. Believed it or not, every years more people died because of road accident compare to diseases. Human factors, in...

Accountability and Assessment in Nursing Mentorship
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Introduction: Introduction The Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) (2008a, p.23) declares in its Standards to Support Learning and Assessment in Practice that a “mentor is a mandatory requirement for pre-regis...

Infection Control Practices in Nursing Homes
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Introduction: Introduction Literature review on the infection control practices in the Nursing Homes most particularly in the United Kingdom. It is well known that the elderly population has a substantially increas...

Development of Nursing Skills in Oral Care Placement
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Introduction: INTRODUCTION This essay is going to focus on the nursing skills that I developed during a period of placement simulations and in the community, placing emphasis on oral care, communication and bed bat...

History of and Importance of Handwashing
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Introduction: Introduction Hand washing is the removal of micro-organisms from hands using running water or alcohol rub or gel (Brooker and Waugh, 2007). It is the most effective way of controlling the spread of in...

Importance of Nursing Informatics in Nurses Daily Practice
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Introduction: Introduction Data is the basic and the fundamental concept that this study focus on. Since there is no information can be acquired without availability of data (Ahsan and Shah, 2006). The data that we...

Cost Effectiveness of Dialysis for ESRD Patients
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Introduction: From 2002-2009 diabetic nephropathies represented 41% of all end-stage renal (ESRD) patients in St. Lucia, which is significantly higher when compared with global distribution. Renal replacement thera...

The Heart, Hands and the Mind in Midwifery
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Introduction: The Art of Midwifery Midwifery places the woman and the midwife at the centre of midwifery care. It is said that midwifery is an art that uses the heart, the hands and the mind. In relation to working...

Improving Concordance to Smoking Cessation Treatment
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Introduction: National Institute of Clinical Excellence (2009) identified that medicine taking is a complex human behaviour that lies ultimately, in the hands of the patient. NICE (2009) estimates that between a th...

Culture of Silence: Talking About Death and Terminal Illness
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Introduction: In the past, it may have been acceptable for doctors not to tell a patient they had cancer. There was a culture of silence around talking about death and terminal illness (Heyse-Moore 2009). In On Dea...

Relationship Between Staff Motivation and Performance
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Introduction: INTRODUCTION Shortages can be a symptom of demotivation, poor management and lack of organizational support (Zurn et al., 2005). Shortages are resulting in heavy workload, which is a precursor to job ...

Importance of Statistical Research in Medicine
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Introduction: The Nepal Journal of Epidemiology is the first journal of its kind in Nepal. Our main objective in pioneering this journal is to attempt to provide a common platform for all researchers, particularly ...

Decision Support Methods in Healthcare
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Introduction: Introduction Currently, healthcare practitioners are working hard to ensure that the safety of patients is guaranteed. They are also working toward averting expensive lawsuits that result from medical...

Ethical, Legal and Professional Duties of Nurses
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Introduction: Introduction: Nurses are subject to a large number of ethical, legal and professional duties which are so many to be discussed in this essay so that is why only main important ethical and legal duties...

ABCDE Approach for Critically Ill Patients
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Introduction: The topic I have chosen for my vignette is a patient with chest pain. The Resuscitation Council (UK 2006) recommends that clinical staff should follow the ABCDE approach when assessing and treating cr...

Pharmacists Role in Complementary & Alternative Medicines
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Introduction: Pharmacists Role in Complementary & Alternative Medicines The first section of this paper will provide background information on the use of complementary and alternative medicines (CAMs) and thei...

Features of Intellectual Disability, and Interventions
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Introduction: INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY Mr. Basavaraj S Hukkeri Assistant Professor D. Y Patil college of Nursing, Kolhapur Intellectual disability (ID), once called mental retardation, is characterized b...

Assessment and Accountability in Nursing
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Introduction: Mentors have responsibility to assist students to develop their clinical skills and knowledge on placements. As well as developing clinical skills, students also develop their interpersonal skills an...

Effect of Communication on Collaborative Working
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Introduction: Discuss how communication within an inter-professional team could affect collaborative working. Inter-professional learning and collaborative working in healthcare are two significant practices that ...