They are more likely than non-Indigenous people to be hospitalised for most diseases and conditions, to experience disability as well as a lower quality of life due to ill health, and a reduced life expectancy than other Australians. ... Cardiovascular disease is the largest contributor to ill health experienced by Indigenous Australians, it is also the leading cause of death among Indigenous Australians, with a death rate nearly three times that for non-Indigenous Australians (as cited in Penm, 2008). ... The role of the community nurse is to adopt a holistic approach when offering care and ...

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And the situation will keep getting worse, until hospitals may be forced to turn away all but the most critically ill patients. ... Physicians check on their patient's daily or more often, but the lives of critically ill and post-surgery patients depend on the 24-hour-a-day presence of nurses, and on their skill, experience and vigilance. ... The nurses hardly spend any time with the patient. An interview that I had with a nurse, one of my questions to her was "How many patients do you take care of per day?- Her reply was sometimes up to 8 patients. ...

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Hospice As my grandmother lay dead in her bed, I had come to a conclusion about the choices she made once she found out she was terminally ill. ... When a loved one is terminally ill with no chance of recovery, the family and loved one's have to choose the care program that will provide for them until the inevitable death. ... They would say that it "disrupts" the other patients by having the schedule changes and odd visitors. ... They could never tell me her mental state (sad, happy, etc ), which makes sense because they had never once taken the time to know her in a non-nurse-patien...

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Hospice As my grandmother lay dead in her bed, I had come to a conclusion about the choices she made once she found out she was terminally ill. ... When a loved one is terminally ill with no chance of recovery, the family and loved one's have to choose the care program that will provide for them until the inevitable death. ... They would say that it "disrupts" the other patients by having the schedule changes and odd visitors. ... They could never tell me her mental state (sad, happy, etc ), which makes sense because they had never once taken the time to know her in a non-nurse-patien...

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Pender devised this model after observing that patients would only seek out health care after they had fallen ill and experienced compromised lives (Sitzman & Eichelberger, 2011, p. 136). Instead to reacting avoidable disease, health care providers should help patients engage in health promoting behaviors in hopes of alleviating illness altogether. There are many factors that have the potential to influence behaviors of a patient. ... One real barrier that a patient may experience is not being able to afford a gym membership. ...

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He was the person who showed her what an institution for the mentally ill should be like. ... Shocked by the inhumanity of such treatment, she set out to visit every place in the state of Massachusetts where they confined the mentally ill. ... At the war's conclusion, Dix returned to her work on behalf of the mentally ill. ... Dorothea was mostly hated by male doctors and officers, because they didn't like it when she made jokes about how they ran their hospital and when she would stand up for her nurses and patients whenever there was a problem. ... She got so ill that Dr. ...

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