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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"challenging patients"”.
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Clinical review and experimental evaluation of tumour M2-pyruvate kinase in pancreatic cancer
The treatment of pancreatic cancer is challenging. Patients are often beyond curative surgical therapy and palliative treatment with chemotherapy provides limited benefit. New markers of cancer activity and therapeutic targets are required. This thesis has firstly reviewed the available literature …
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Phenomenological Study of the Lived Experience of New Graduate Nurses Caring for Hospitalized Patients Living with Dementia
… of New Graduate Nurses Caring for Hospitalized Patients Living with Dementia.</p> <p><strong>Purpose.</strong> This study explored new graduate nurses’ lived experiences in caring for hospitalized patients living with dementia.</p> <p><strong>Background.</strong> The first twelve months of …
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The Creation and Implementation of Guidelines for the Appropriate Termination of Patient-Provider Relationships
… remain unclear. As providers discharge <em>challenging </em>or <em>difficult</em> patients from their practices, questions to support this decision arise. Discharged patients face displacement and healthcare is disrupted. This project will (a) describe problematic patient-provider …
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Resilience in mental health nurses working in secure environments
… the intense nature of the interactions with patients (Cronin-Stubbs and Brophy 1985); the regular confrontation of difficult and challenging behaviours (Sullivan 1993); violence and threats from patients and relatives (Tillett 2003); and resources and staffing (Alexander et al 1998). Caring …
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THE BIOMECHANICAL ASSESSMENT OF GAIT FOR STROKE PATIENTS AND THE IMPLICATIONS IN DIAGNOSIS AND REHABILITATION
… and the diagnosis of early stroke remains challenging. Patients who have suffered a stroke have different gait patterns compared to healthy people. Advanced techniques of motion analysis have been routinely used in the clinical assessment of cerebral palsy. However, so far, little research …