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Issues with RHIOs

A RHIO is a type of health information exchange organization where certain professionals upload health/medical data and other prof...

To Live or Not to Live? and Coma

This paper deals with the issue of traumatic brain injury and coma, which includes the trauma of families facing the decision as t...

Overview Major Health Organization

This paper discusses a major health care organization and its diversity. Several topics are discussed: data regarding diversity, m...

IMPLEMENTING DVT PROPHYLAXIS AT HAMPSHIRE MEMORIAL

This is an executive overview of the need for DVT prophylaxis implementation among diabetes patients at Hampshire Memorial in West...

Ethics and Disclosing a Terminal Prognosis

This paper pertains to withhold a terminal prognosis from the patient and the ethicality of this action. Four pages in length, fou...

Poets Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, and Nature

the spider and it is true for man as well. Obviously, he doesnt actually say this specifically but he instead illustrates it thro...

Advance Directive Uses

before intubating her, but the woman needed an airway cleared right away. Only after restoring breath to the woman did they learn...

Controlling Costs and HMOs

a total of more than $4,000 for every citizen of the country (Grumbach and Bodenheimer, 1994). Plagued by overspending for years,...

Adolescent Type I Diabetes Care Plan

much sugar remains in the blood and too little energy is transferred to other cells. The diabetic needs to take externally adminis...

A Needs Assessment for Diabetes Education in New York City

provide the physician interface. Beyond these duties are the operational and administrative duties required in this type of facil...

Diabetes Education Expanded Lesson Plan

environment. That open system "interacts with internal and external stressors and is in a state of constant change, moving toward...

Arguing in Favor of Self Directed Euthanasia

criteria in an advanced directive or the individuals cognizance at the time of their decision. The first task that presents...

Medical Law and Refusing Consent

it is these issues of autonomy and personal rights that are concerned the sanctity of life is a secondary issue and cases such as ...

The Medical Argument for Legalized Marijuana

to reduce pain remains controversial. A 2001 meta-analysis of 39 clinical studies found that marijuanas was no more effective in...

Women, Literacy and Health Care Critique of “A Winning Combination: Women, Literacy and Participation in Health Care”

by practicing nurses in this area. Both of the authors also hold advanced degrees: one holds a Masters degree and teaches at a co...

The Impact of Schizophrenia

the family are high, exacerbated by the death of Davids father. Feelings Gibbs reflective cycle will usually focus in the feelin...

Issues in Implementing Change for a Healthcare Company

The writer looks at a scenario where a home care health organization wants to introduce an electronic patient records system. The ...

Two Article Summaries

effectiveness of a computer-based access that informed primary care physicians of all prescriptions dispensed to specific patients...

Alzheimer's Disease

("Three stages," 2011, p. 1465). Mild cognitive impairment characterizes the second stage of AD ("Three stages," 2011). The thre...

Computer Tools and Inappropriate Prescribing for the Elderly

The incidence of inappropriate medication prescriptions issued to elderly individuals is estimated to be between 12 and 40 percent...

Temperature Reduction in Perioperative Therapy

meperidine and skin surface warming on shivering." AORN Journal July 2007: 113+. General OneFile. Web. 29 Aug. 2011....

Report Proposing the Adoption of Electronic Health Records

additional costs of transcribing existing active patient records. The implementation will also incur additional operating costs,...

Therapeutic Hypothermia

report on her search process, as several of the articles she provided are included in this review. This writer/tutor accessed the ...

Technology Improves Emergency Rooms

their resources and materials but emergency rooms do not seem to be able to keep track of equipment or even patients. One issue we...

Assessing an Investment for a Hospital

investment in the software program has a number of benefits as well as some challenges. The development of a system where patient ...

Cranberry and the Treatment of Urinary Tract Infections

This paper concludes that because at least one study questions its effectiveness, cranberry should probably not be the only treatm...

Using Evidence Based Practice to Explore the Effectiveness of Constraint Induced Language Therapy

non-intense application produces better results, while others claim that intensity is the key to results. This paper will explore ...

The Thao Case/Medication Error

prohibited from working over 12 hours in a 24-hour period or more than 60 hours per week for 2 years ("Criminal case," 2007). Th...

Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice

get abortions (National Abortion Federation, 2010). This means that women could see certified physicians instead of finding quacks...

The Medical Environment and Entrepreneurship

who perofmed the first heart transplant and Patrick Steptoe who was responsible for the first test tube baby. These are m...