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of the true nature of their illnesses. While keeping such facts from the patients may be considered merciful it does, at times, en...

of all of these organizations is to help provide quality behavioral health care while containing costs for its members. APS...

to body changes due to issues of self-image and acceptance speaks to a very vulnerable group of individuals whose focus is more up...

not want his father informed), presenting a rationale for signing a health care proxy becomes extremely problematic. Guidelines us...

for further self-harm to occur. Pembrooke and Smith recommend, for example, that triage staff assume that even minor injuries repr...

who were in need of an epidural block in order to anesthetize the severe birth-related pain. Unable to hand over the several hund...

As a socially committed citizen who addresses health needs of the local, national, and global community, nursing will forever be h...

sense that it is actively intended to cause harm, but negligence occurs when it is established that any reasonable person would ha...

with advancing age. Care providers cannot set lower fees for uninsured individuals and then penalize the insured and their insure...

government and distort the issues by using unethical practices. Their dealings with government officials are sometimes damaging t...

at least not accessing the system as much as they could. For example, it was reported in BMJ that a telephone healthcare service o...

Hence, one sees in this example that patients and physicians demand the newest and latest technologies but many insurance companie...

dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...

Most of those insured by third-party payers have had all or part of their healthcare premiums paid by employers. Competitive pres...

without mentioning their love affair with olive oil, and the esteem which this precious ingredient holds in this culture (Miller, ...

health of the individual and to their success in recuperation. The Association for Spirit at Work is comprised of medical profess...

endeavor. Nursing in any context requires a detailed knowledge of individual patients. Specifically, a forensic nurse will have a...

which is where the AIDS population appears to lose its right to privacy. Schmidt (2005) notes that more currently, the Kennedy-Ka...

background and knowledge to evaluate when there is a need to consult a transcultural nurse specialist, as these specially trained ...

being more capable of acting proactively and preventively. The philosophy of nursing is something much grander and more complex t...

whoever the client might be, that is, an individual, family, group or community. The third provision indicates that nurses are als...

run away. There is an increase in adrenaline and a condition of high stress that allows the individual, or the animal, to have the...

says that families have been sorely neglected as a great deal of nursing practice continues to focus on individuals (Denham, 2003)...

needs of a varied client population, increase my ability to help people make and maintain healthful choices and determine a better...

disease, parents first must have access to health care services and then utilize such services. Marshall (2003) points to the im...

evaluating information (including assumptions and evidence) related to the issue, considering alternatives ... and drawing conclus...

benefit to help enhance the way a nursing job is performed. The duties of a nurse varies according to the patients they care for. ...

can only be expected to escalate in the near future. Therefore, issues of affordability, in relation to equitable healthcare servi...

strange since the data reported for 1998 was 83 percent of pregnant women who had received care in their first trimester. That fig...

A 5 page research paper that discusses Jamaican culture and health beliefs....