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A Political Science Research Article Synopsis

In a paper consisting of ten pages an article synopsis considers a research study that compares US and Great Britain in terms of a...

Literature Review on Operating Room Patients' Identification

operating room to recovery, the tracking of patient information becomes an imperative part of this process (Beyea, Hicks and Becke...

Forensic Science at Work

of minute DNA details an invasion of privacy on the most cellular level and has overtones of Big Brother written all over it, acco...

Ungentlemanly Acts by Barnett

who wanted to believe that this military man would do something so heinous. While the work does involve the topic of incest, it a...

Health Care Providers, the Patient, and the Patient Self Determination Act

policies in regard to the PSDA. I have been fortunate in that I was chosen to be a member of that team. Consequently, I have at ...

Research Proposal; Why Do Collage Students Have a Permissive Attitude Towards Piracy?University Students, Permissive Attitudes and Piracy

as acceptable this will give a greater insight to how the problem may be solved in the future and the best approach to take that m...

Postsurgical Patient Care

indwelling foley and compression boot. Her dressing is dry and intact. She was discharged with Percocet 5mg q6. Analysis and Out...

The History and Mission of Tripler Army Medical Center

facility grew to over 1,000 beds and the addition of a many barracks-style buildings. The design for a new facility began in 1942 ...

Training, Teamwork and Benefits in Patient Care

with physicians to "Yes, doctor," the still-proceeding transitions in healthcare continue to elevate the position of nurse while n...

David Hume and John Locke on the Certainty Concept

assented to three kinds of knowledge: intuitive, demonstrative, and sensitive and all are based upon the concept of "ideas" (Kenyo...

Critical Incident Analysis in Nurse Management

and certainly health care facilities. In essence, the minimum requirements of nursing dictate that: * the nurse remain cognizant ...

ICU Patients and Communication

"ICU syndrome" (Elliot and Wright, 1999). In its milder form, ICU syndrome was characterized by the presence of confusion and memo...

Treatment in Home and in Hospital for Acute Conditions Advantages and Disadvantages

level of problems for inpatients was 20.9% compared to only 8.4% for outpatients (Wilson et al, 2002). When asked to rate the serv...

Patient Consent Issues

clear that the patient is taking part in a decision-making process, and not simply signing a form. In practical terms, of course, ...

Elderly Citizens and Considerations for Community Health Care

the near future, however. This presents potentially severe consequences for the economics of elder care. The stakeholders in this...

Software for Health Information Management

The Clinical Workstation Application of the 3M(tm) Care Innovation Expert Applications system focuses on providing clinicians and ...

Pain Management for the Elderly

has been estimated that between 49 and 83 percent of all elderly adults experience pain on a regular basis (Briggs, 2003). Desbi...

Gary Pisano's 'Partners Health Care System, Inc.,(B): Cardiac Care Improvement

All of the results of this reengineering, however, were not as positive. The process had not taken into consideration the fact th...

Patient Education That Are Both Successful and Unsuccessful

of her post-polio syndrome left her unable to completely void her urine, which in turn led to the development of further UTIs. Da...

Ethical Analysis of Wrong Extremity Amputation

consent must be made through a signed legal document (Retsas and Forrester, 1995). In all cases consent must be freely and volunt...

Nonadherence to Medical Instructions: Walker and Avant

issue via conceptual analysis, inasmuch as Walker and Avant provide specific steps that allow one to wholly define the ambiguous a...

Nursing Home Admissions' Perception versus Reality

to a nursing facility, it should also be understood that each situation is unique. When both the family members and the staff of t...

Asylum by Erving Goffman

In five pages this text is used in an analysis of the mental patient's moral career and medical model. There are no other sources...

The Impact of Road Traffic on Air Pollution

This 5 page paper discusses some of the concerns about the increase in air pollution due to road traffic. The writer examines conc...

Voluntary and Involuntary Euthanasia

it is right to allow terminally ill patients to end their lives, or to assist such patients to commit suicide, will continue despi...

Hospital Emergency Departments

in funding for long-term care will have had a devastating impact on women, minorities, and children. Patterns of Use According to...

Deliberate Harm to Self and Nursing Management

In seven pages this paper discusses the problems associated with a patient's deliberate self harm in a discussion of relevant mana...

Theories of Peplau and Orem in Patient Assessment

In this paper consisting of seven pages the importance of adequately assessing patient needs is discussed by examining the theorie...

Cancer Patients and Cessation of Smoking Cessation

of heavy alcohol ingestion and heavy cigarette smoking (Brown, Kresevic and Nosan, 1998). Purpose of the Study...

Psychotic Discourse Framing Analysis

were a child answering her mother (Ribeiro 80). The great playwright William Shakespeare was a keen observer of human behavior, ...