Unit 9 Project: Final Research Proposal A Multiple Regression Analysis of Insulin Usage Versus Non-treatment of Hyperglycemia in Non-diabetic Trauma Patients Jeana Santostefano Kaplan University NU 310-01: Nursing Research March 5‚ 2008 Title A Multiple Regression Analysis of Insulin Usage Versus Non-treatment of Hyperglycemia in Non-diabetic Trauma Patients Abstract Purpose: The goal of this study is to explore the relationship between insulin administration in non-diabetic
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imported to their country (Natural Resources Canada: The Canadian Diamond Industry). Diamonds that are imported from conflict countries are called blood diamond or conflict diamonds because they are retrieved from war zone and traded in the black market to fund rebel fighters and civil war activities (Encyclopedia Britannica: Blood Diamonds). The term “blood diamond” is derived from how the diamonds are found; it often results in a lot of deaths or labor exploitation. The African miners that are exploited
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Measuring and Assessing Patient Safety Neribel Claudio HCA 375 John Gomillion July 25‚ 2010 Measuring and Assessing Patient Safety Patient safety is such an essential part of our health care system and it helps describe quality health care. Keeping the patients safe is a challenging issue because errors and mistakes can and do happen every day. Error occurs “when a process does not proceed the way that it was intended by its designers and managers” (McLaughlin & Kaluzny 2006)
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quality of care we delivery is very important not just to the patient‚ but also the nurse. When we care for patients it is important to make the patients the priority and make their clinical experience a good one. A nurse usually develops their plan of care to satisfy the patients needs‚ so we call that patient-centered care. Dabney and Tzeng (2013) describes patient-centered care as a therapeutic relationship that occurs among health care providers and the patients that are receiving health care services
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SMART Goal: Managing Patient-Centered Care SMART Goal: Managing Patient-Centered Care Historically‚ a career in Nursing has not always been one that was respected as a noble and honorable job. Once frowned upon by the elite classes‚ nursing was a job expected of the lower class. In 1853 however‚ a young woman belonging to an elite British family‚ named Florence Nightingale‚ would change that. From a young age‚ she believed that her divine purpose in life was to care for the ill and wounded. After
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is one of the most substantial reforms in Medicare since 1965. This is now considered the law of the land according to Douglas Holtz-Eaton. The PPACA portrays a “coverage first” strategy. “Sadly‚ a review a of the state’s experience bodes poorly for the future of national reform.” (Point/Counterpoint 177) There are two major driving factors in which could propose a threat for this reform. The first factor is it costs too much. Many decades
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The Main Treatment Options Oh‚ shit‚ Ramey‚" was the first thing I said when I walked in the door that morning. He’d been looking bad‚ but now one of his eyes was bugged out – probably twice the size of the other one. I’ve done a lot of reading about this since then. Usually it’s because the fish swims into something sharp‚ probably that ceramic decorative castle I had in there. Ramey’s fins had been disintegrating for a while; over a few months his velvety banner of a tail had succumbed to an
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Physicists are constantly working on their new achievements in biomedical engineering; For example‚ advanced robotic surgeries. Considerably we are satisfied with Lithotripters‚ CT and MRI scanning equipments which are developed in last few decades. These are now benefiting thousands of patients worldwide. I followed many online courses which are related to biomedical engineering and was impressed to further extend my knowledge of biomedical
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In contemporary society‚ particularly in the Western world‚ the biomedical model is perhaps the most commonly used framework for understanding health and illness‚ not solely by members of the medical profession but also by the lay population. This paradigm is based on a "specific way of thinking about and explaining disease based on biological factors" (Barry & Yuill‚ 2008). In recent years however‚ this biomedical model has begun to face challenges as the expansion of knowledge among the
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These "blood diamonds‚" as they are often called‚ are the result of tribal disputes over land that diamond mining operations become subversively involved in. The diamond mining operations create a situation that allows them to profit from diamond extraction in
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