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Dementia

emotional (limbic) memories are affected, and the last group of memories to be affected as the "motor or more reptilian memories,"...

Communication Issues/Neonatal ICU

some problems that can be encountered include "breast engorgement, nipple soreness, and latch-on" (Hurst, 2007, p. 207). An interp...

Health Data Interactive and the National Center for Health Statistics

This paper explores human longevity as pictured by government statistics. Why is human longevity increasing at the same time dise...

World Health Organization and Global Health Issues

most pressing concern was a thorough assessment of the health issues and problems throughout the world and to suggest ways of deal...

Children's Dental Health and Public Health Policy

not view dentistry as very important. Some citizens see it as optional, but oral health is anything but. Apparently, citizens need...

Oxford Health's Management Operations

In one page a January 1998 article by Jim Champy featured in Computerworld entitled 'What Went Wrong at Oxford Health?' is summari...

ICU Delirium

hospital stays (Cole and Soucy, 2003). While all ICU patients have serious and potentially life-threatening conditions, those ov...

Article Critique/Perceptions of Palliative Care

(in English) between the years 1989 and 2004. The extent of the literature review appears to be sufficient to support the research...

Old Age Conceptual Understanding

In eight pages this paper attempts to understand the concept of 'old age' and the current lack of respect being accorded senior ci...

Case Study of the United Kingdom's National Health Service Direct and Mental Health Provision

the telephone as well as the Internet and walk in centres, to answer queries form patients in the effort to reduce the number of v...

Developed Country's Health Plan and Bill Clinton's Health Plan Compared

The changes that have occurred in healthcare over the last few years make it obvious that if healthcare representatives are to do ...

Economic and Political Perspectives on Health, Aging, and Utilization of Health Services

but much of the cost is a simple reflection of the fact that medical science is keeping people alive longer than it has in previou...

Contemporary Nursing Ethics

this development and left orders for both analgesia and sedation, which helped at first, but became less effective as the hours pa...

"Smoking Among Chinese Americans: Behavior, Knowledge, And Beliefs" - Summary And Response

The authors recognize how utilizing this single Chicago community is not sufficient to represent the entire Chinese American popul...

Wound Care/Wet-to-Dry v. Advanced Dressings

the same manner, however, this dressing is intended to stay moist until removal; however, this may become a wet-to-dry dressing in...

Article Review of 'Health Inequalities and the Health of the Poor' by Gwatkins

"...it must also be recognized that, although the health sector is not necessarily the most important channel for dealing with ine...

Importance Of Good Health, Emphasis Oral Health

reported that periodontal disease is a cause of low birth weight. Delta Dental stated their research suggests that oral infections...

Forecasting for a Fast Food Outlet

and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...

Mental Health Parity Act: Interplay of Policy, Cultural And Societal Attitudes Within Clinical Social Work Practice

mental health arena. Anyone is vulnerable to the onset of mental illness which can be triggered by any number of occurrences, not...

Global Competition, U.S. Economy, Euthanasia, Bioethics, and Healthcare Policies

patients suffering whereas passive euthanasia is when a patient is deprived of treatment and/or nourishment that is needed in orde...

Health Benefits Of Red Wine

consuming a drink and lower risk of heart disease (Mukamal and Rimm, 2001). That same controversy tends to surround what is refer...

Advanced Practice Nursing/Legal Requirements in Tennessee

recognized categories for APNs within this state (TBoN, 2006). The scope of practice for Tennessee APNs includes the legal abili...

The Accuracy of American History Books

faced. Foner explains that by the time the Savannah Colloquy would come around, slavery was already an institution3. He explains t...

Gambling Interventions for Chinese-American Men

as "submission to the new culture or changing to the old" (Li, 1993, p. 99). Instead, by working out the conflicts, "a new awarene...

Study Proposal/Will Placing an NP in EDs Help Overcrowding?

concerns the how NP practice has been implemented in countries other than the US. The majority of research articles available in v...

Marva Collins Model for Discipline

She also advocates the use of proverbs and poetry, as students to copy and memorize them, as these inspirational tools deliver "cu...

Irish American Influence on American Culture

society, so much so that the Irish ultimately became "more American than the Americans in their appreciation for the blessing of c...

Jay Gatsby and the American Dream

move comfortably in the social circle of people like the Buchanans. Fitzgerald shows us all the trappings of wealth: the gorgeous...

Healthcare Problems in America and the Proposed Solution of 2008 Presidential Candidates Barack Obama and John McCain

very different plans to prospective voters. Obamas healthcare plan focuses on expanding coverage to Americans that are presently ...

African Americans in Early America

(Laughter Genealogy, 2008). Another region, Pennsylvania, saw an African American history that was essentially one of slav...