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National League of Nursing and the American Nurses Association

follow-up full medical treatment and counseling. 5. Bargain for violence-prevention provisions. 6. Make violence-prevention progra...

Living a Normal Life with Schizophrenia

stress and/or have substance and alcohol abuse. Some people are able to recover completely from schizophrenia while other may have...

Medicine and Culture: Varieties of Treatment in the United States, England, West Germany, and France by Lynn Payer

between the patient and physician (technology, caring and values) are always present but may differ in balance. In addition, the r...

Teen Child of an Alcoholic Case Study

sleeping. Don - who was sleeping off his own hangover - mustered what can be termed as an adrenaline rush of energy and after a b...

DSM

also tells the user that when these symptoms occur together, or to the degree specified, the condition is usually called X (Riesen...

Mood Disorders and the MMPI Diagnostic Tool The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and the Diagnosis of Mood Disorders

allow a therapist to more fully understand their mental capacities and state. Testing is important as well in analyzing an indivi...

Examination of Gout

1995; Flieger, 1995). The body converts these substances to uric acid through metabolism. Approximately two thirds of the uric a...

Contemporary Nursing's History

as how the profession has been viewed for at least a century. It was an honorable and respected position for a woman and one that ...

Costs of Skilled Nursing Facilities and the Impact of the Shortage of Registered Nurses

Today, the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that it is no longer only added stress and long hours for those ...

A Leukemia Consideration

broad term. There are four broad categories of Leukemia, but there are subcategories as well. Acute lymphocytic or lymphoblastic ...

A Detailed Examination of Anthrax

the spores and inevitably succumbs to the aftermath. Vaccinations for livestock has proven effective in drastically reducing the ...

Nursing's Systems Theory Analyzed

defined relationships and also includes an interdependency between such and the surrounding environment. Systems theory also embra...

Incidences of Prostate Cancer

are about 50 percent more likely than white men to get this kind of cancer. Black men also have the highest mortality rate from pr...

A Discussion of Amyloidosis

In five pages the classification, histological diagnosis, and information regarding treatment and possible misdiagnosis of the dis...

ADHD from a Mother's Perspective

In this paper consisting of eleven pages the mother of a child recently diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is...

Religion and Life Considered in an Elderly Citizen Interview

In six pages life's 8 stages as theorized by Erik Erikson are applied to a sample interview with a woman age 72 who discusses reli...

Abuse and the Elderly

In eight pages the global aging population issue is discussed with elder abuse laws, increasing incidences of abuse and neglect, a...

Tutorial on Whether or Not Hyperactive Children Should be Treated with Drugs

In six pages this tutorial defines ADD, ADHD, and MBD, along with diagnosis and treatments of each outlined and then opines with j...

Nursing's Philosophy of Caring

In five pages this paper discusses contemporary nursing and the caring philosophy's role. Seven sources are listed in the bibliog...

Overview of Dyslexia

In six pages an overview of this learning disability is presented in a consideration of its causes, diagnosis, prevalance, treatme...

Overview of Huntington's Disease

made based on these factors: family history of the disease; the "presence of an extrapyramidal movement disorder, i.e., when nerve...

Analyzing Let Me Hear Your Voice by Catherine Maurice

In a paper consisting of five pages a family describes firsthand how to find proper intervention for autistic children along with ...

Florida and Abuse of the Elderly

In five pages the increase of senior citizen neglect and abuse in Florida is examined. Ten sources are cited in the bibliography....

Etiology of Scarlet Fever

a red rash about the face and body, another telltale symptom of scarlet fever to help confirm the diagnosis includes sore throat, ...

Nursing's Servant Leadership Principle

In five pages this paper discusses the servant leadership principle and its impact upon treatment from the perspective of nursing ...

Dyslexia's Two Primary Subtypes, Current Practice and Thinking

In a paper consisting of 6 pages visual spatial and phonological types of dyslexia are examined in terms of current diagnosis rese...

Child and Adolescent OCD

In eighteen pages Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is examined in an overview of the diagnosis as described in DSM IV with a literatu...

Pathogenesis of Mitral Valve Prolapse

system, inasmuch as a full ninety-eight percent of those who suffer with mitral valve prolapse have nothing wrong with their heart...

Overview of Obstructive Sleep Apnea

being less common between the two. The brain fails to send proper signals to the breathing muscles as a means by which to commenc...

Overview of Testicular Cancer

In five pages this paper examines testicular cancer in an overview of symptoms, how it is diagnoses, treatment options, and curren...