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Therapy criteria: Identify the therapy modality by name. Identify the originator (creator) of the specific modality. Identify a specific diagnosis or population this modality is especially helpful with. Note specific focus, emphasis, and/or goals of this modality. Therapy modalities (define criteria for each modality): Gestalt therapy Existential therapy

Abel, a two-and-a-half-year-old boy is brought in by his parents. His parents ask for an antibiotic prescription right away. Mom is sure that he has an ear infection because he has had a runny nose for about a week then started getting fussy and pulling on his left ear. According […]

Research Write the “new” hospitalist role for physicians. The role of the hospitalist and the overall effect it plays on healthcare in regards to cost, access and quality.

A 200 lb post operative open heart surgery male patient with a 30 year history of cigarette smoking (1 pack a day) is on a ventilator in the Cardiopulmonary Surgery unit at Albany Medical Center. The operation was successful yet this patient cannot come off of the ventilator.  The ventilator high […]

1. Stand next to the client and use therapeutic touch. 2. Sit in the chair across from the client and use silence. The nurse is working at a day program for teenagers. At lunchtime, the nurse observed that one client was sitting alone at a table away from the other […]

How would you explain to them why, in this country, personal care is typically performed by the nursing staff, such as nursing assistants?