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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"difficult patients"”.
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Dealing With Difficult Patients
… issues that arise between physicians and patients. Examples of patient types are provided. Potential points of conflict are discussed. Communication theory is reviewed.
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Occupational stress and job satisfaction in recently qualified Australian osteopaths
… among new graduate osteopaths included, managing patients who were "difficult", managing time pressures to see patients and dealing with paperwork. The most severe stressors included, earning enough money, excessive clinical responsibility and managing difficult patients. The severity of stressor …
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The Registered Nurse Experience Delivering Care to a Difficult Patient: A Qualitative Study
… Nurses provide care for patients they classify as “difficult.” The phenomenon of the difficult patient is described in nursing research and is associated with a broad spectrum of behaviors ranging from non-compliant to physical violence. Despite the recommendation from …
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Who Cares? the Role of Nursing Assistants in the Labor Process of Hospital Nursing
… Foucault's "pastoral power." When dealing with difficult patients, CNAs choose alternate strategies; "killing them with kindness," or "being professional" (withholding affective care.)</p><p>There is a limited career ladder for CNAs, but many create their own dynamic ladder by combining work and …
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Learning Needs and Barriers to Continuing Education Among Rural Montana Nurses
… others, cardiovascular nursing, coping with difficult patients, and ethical issues in nursing. The majority of participants requested continuing education offered at the intermediate level of instruction. The top three barriers to attending continuing education were: distance too far to …
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Physiotherapy in a Danish private context - a social and ethical practice
… challenges for both physiotherapists and their patients. This thesis aims to explore how physiotherapy in a Danish private context socially and ethically is practiced from the perspective of physiotherapists. The thesis, which consists of four parts, is based on the same empirical material …
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The Creation and Implementation of Guidelines for the Appropriate Termination of Patient-Provider Relationships
… 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 relationships and its effects, (b) …
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Factors associated with variation in secondary prevention medication use after stroke
… to reduce the risk of clotting, yet many patients do not take them. In this thesis, I investigated which stroke and TIA survivors are missing out on stroke prevention medications. First, a systematic review and meta-ethnography combining 15 studies and including 350 patients demonstrated …