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Diabetes Mellitus: A Case Study

plan and inhalers for asthma management. Other than asthma, though, JR did not report any other major past medical problems....

The Kidneys and Renal Failure

"three important hormones: erythropoietin ... or EPO, which stimulates the bone marrow to make red blood cells; renin, which regul...

Hospital Leaning Center

A 6 page paper about establishing a learning center in a hospital. The dimensions and location of the center is reported, includin...

What Kind Of Cultural Identity Should Public Schools Promote?

et al, 2005). Citing how public education in America "has historically been both the panacea for societal ills and the target fo...

Proximity to Nephrologist and Mortality Among Hemodialysis Patients

nephrologists can be a particularly concerning factor in health care outcome. Methods...

Patient Simulators/Human Patients in Nursing Education

age. Therefore, the patient population is increasing. This factor is also influenced by the fact that that the huge lump in the Am...

Youth Suicide and Depression; Conventional Approaches To Treatment

a major relapse when they are adults (Olfson et al, 2003). Therefore treatment at an early stage may help prevent later episodes. ...

Nursing Leadership, Advocacy & Responsibilities

Leadership and management while related are two distinctively different concepts. Leadership can be discerned from simply manageme...

Diabetes Self-Management - Hispanic Patients

has always been about the development of autonomy, equality, social justice and democracy" (Mezirow, 1999). The transformative app...

Patients’ Bill of Rights

is designed to ensure that "Patients have access to needed care" and that healthcare providers are "free to practice medicine with...

Nursing/Medical Vocabulary

9.Surg: Patients recovering from some form of surgery. 10. Med: Patients recovering from some form of illness. 11. ICU-Intensive C...

Patient Satisfaction As An Indication of Clinical Quality

Agency for Healthcare and Quality as "doing the right thing, at the right time, in the right way, for the right person-and having ...

Discharge Instructions, Heart Patients

planning evaluation to those patients, conducted or overseen by a registered nurse, social worker or other appropriately qualified...

A Case Study Concerning the Move to Electronic Patient Records

The aim is to change the NHS culture to an information culture that will maximise recourses through an appropriate infrastructure....

PATIENT PRIVACY AND SECURITY SYSTEMS

This 8-page paper discusses the importance of patient privacy and how a patient privacy plan to can be developed and implemented. ...

The Theory of Human Caring

al, 2009). The theory came from "the results of studies accomplished by the author along her Doctorate in Clinic and Social Psycho...

The Nurse Educator, Postprostatectomy Patients and Informative Websites

Dr. McCullough is "Director of the Sexual Health and Male Fertility and Microsurgery Programs at New York University School of Med...

Adverse Effects to Antipsychotic Drugs

a fever, and a variety of other symptoms (Boyd, 2008). It is the variety of symptoms associated with NMS that become a significant...

Autism and Treatment

that are characterized as "autism spectrum disorders." This paper lists these conditions and then, because it is a short essay, co...

Medical Law

In order to determine whether or not the consent form signed is valid we need to consider the concept of informed consent. The con...

Wait Time for Patients For Receiving Copies of Records

some studies that address waiting times that patients invest in seeing physicians, however. McCarthy, McGee and OBoyle (2000) pro...

The Issue of Unresponsiveness of Physicians in the Hospital Setting

In a paper of four pages, the writer considers the issue of the unresponsive patient, especially as it impacts patient care. This...

Case Studies: Mental Illness and Treatments

are dysfunctional if their recall leads to distressing and/or dysfunctional responses (Paunovic, 2010). There are two major comp...

Treatments for Adult Aphasia: Supported Conversation

& Simmons-Mackie, 1999). The reason for this is that a number of treatment based on the practice and development of conversational...

Families and the Effects of Prolonged Illness

for the family. Finances have been destroyed with assets being wiped out, the stress such illness creates in the other family memb...

Holistic Patient Care: An Example

from the commune to provide support for Helen in the hospital setting. Some general concerns occurred as a result of the assessme...

REBT/Treatment for Alcoholism

ones life (Mulhauser, 2011). The first reaction, that is, normal grief, leads to sadness, which is a perfectly healthy, normal par...

Classifications and Treatment of Diabetes

(Wilson, Krakoff, and Gohdes, 1997). Its complications include urinary hypovolemia, electrolyte imbalance and extraordinarily hig...

Treating Dyslexia

class bias" and goes on to explain that children are labeled LD when it is a surprise that they are poor performers. One can imagi...

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...