Fall Prevention in the Long Term Care Setting Preventing falls among residents in the long term care healthcare setting requires an all-around approach‚ and the recognition‚ evaluation and prevention of resident falls are significant tasks for all who seek to provide a safe environment in any healthcare setting. It is acknowledged that most of the currently available data‚ research and guidelines on fall prevention are most evident in long-term care settings; however‚ much is applicable for all
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Keeping high fall risk patients safe is a challenge in nurses worldwide. Despite implementation of many prevention strategies‚ patient falls in hospitals continue to be a serious safety problem‚ causing nursing staff and administrators to seek innovative ways to further reduce falls among hospitalized patients. If high fall risk patients were to be monitored at all times of the day‚ the risk for falls would decrease drastically. Problem Statement The purpose of this study is to explore if implementing
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All these young kids are young‚and raising their own kids. Young ladies are having unplanned pregnancies all over the world. This generation of young adults differs a lot from our grandparents. Our grandparent’s generation was very carefull about getting pregnant. Young men’s are getting young ladies pregnant‚and are living them to be a single parent. We have to help our younger generation to have planned preganqncies‚instead of unplanned. We can can help prevent pregnancies by suggesting that young
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Research Critique of “African American Women’s Experience of Infection With HIV in the Rural Southeastern United States” October 15‚ 2012 This essay is a critique of qualitative nursing research. In it I will review the research article African American Women’s Experience of Infection with HIV in the Rural Southeastern United States. The article is written by Mallory‚ who is an associate professor at Mennonite College of Nursing‚ Illinois State University (Mallory‚ 2008). In her article Mallory
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Older people and Social Care My presentation topic is social policy and older people and the key act I’m going to mainly focus on is the NHS & Community Care Act 1990. Going with the assumption that an older person is one whose age is 65 or over – the one distinguishing feature that they possess is that they appear not to work for a living. Older people have always been a major focus for social policy and because the UK is an ageing society‚ their importance to the subject is increasing further
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event from occurring‚ you must be able to recognize and understand the signs. A batterer prevention program is a particularly tough program to implement. In order to identify a potential batterer‚ one would need to have knowledge of domestic violence‚ the different types of batterers‚ and the signs of a potential batterer. However‚ I think these types of programs could‚ in fact‚ be implemented‚ if the right people are involved in this program it could work out very well. The first step of this program
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ash-us.org‚ which is created by The American Society of Hypertension. The vision statement of American Society of Hypertension is to eliminate hypertension and its consequences nationwide. Its mission statement: “To translate and promote current research in hypertension and vascular disease into effective treatment strategies for patients with hypertension and associated disorders.” The ASH Vision Statement defines the desired contribution of the organization to society. This Statement describes
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Although some may think that the United States should have mandatory military advice I disagree. First and foremost‚ if Americans were to be drawn to go into the military many inexperienced and untrained men and women would die in war because they would be too unequipped to handle the war. Many unimpeachable lives would be taken by forcing them to spend days and night in a war zone unprepared. A great variety of families would be traumatized not knowing if their family member would come back home
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Medication management in older adults: a critique of concordance Austyn Snowden across the hfe span; older people are just as unlikely to take a medicine that interferes with their lifestyle or behefs as younger people (Carter et al‚ 2003). The concept of concordance has emerged as a principle underpinning many suggested solutions to these problems (Medicines Partnership‚ 2003). This article examines the concept of concordance and concludes that‚ while useful as a principle‚ it is difficult to
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Research Critique - Part 1 Introduction Burns and Grove (2011)‚ define qualitative research is a standardized‚ personal way used to define life experiences and grant them meaning. A qualitative study must establish a dilemma or research problem‚ does not contain a hypotheses‚ and the research questions‚ which evolve as the study progresses are usually very broad. As a result‚ the person conducting the study looks for data to form impressions; this type of research cannot be measured. This qualitative
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