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Applying Virginia Henderson's Nursing Theory

patient, to occupy thoughts, behaviors and other patterns that provide specific indicators of how to approach healing. In this pa...

Colostomy, Stoma and Peristoma Care

be optimized: "The whole patient, should be assessed and physical, mental and social factors taken...

OpEd: Right of Refusal

on some theological idea that only God can end life. We wouldnt allow a dog or cat to suffer; why then do we force humans to do so...

Should New Drugs Be Labelled As ‘New’ To Indicate A Higher Risk Than Established Dugs?

funds used to ensure drug safety focused in the approval of new drugs. After a drug is approved there are few quality reports unde...

Bipolar Disorder II And Substance Abuse

that may trigger a Bipolar incident, many of these also trigger using substances. Oliver (2007) identified twelve different "Trigg...

United Kingdom's National Health Service and Technology

In five pages this paper examines the NHS of the UK in terms of the impacts that have resulted from technological developments wit...

Ethics, Politics, and Quality of Life

In six pages this paper discusses the importance of the quality of life and how the medical industry can become humanized by valui...

Computerized Charting, Ethical and Legal Considerations

In six pages this paper examines the increased hospital use of computers to record charts of patients from ethical and legal persp...

Supporting Life and Costs Both Financial and Emotional

In five pages this research paper considers comatose or vegetative patients and the financial and emotional costs of sustaining li...

Australian's Negligence Tort

In eight pages this paper discusses issues of negligence in this examination of Australia's tort law and the relationship between ...

Younger Victims of Stroke and Depression

This paper examines the stroke recovery of young patients and the effects of depression in twelve pages. Six sources are cited in...

Health Care Proxy for New York

In five pages this paper discusses New York's health care proxy regarding the wishes of incompetent patients passed in light of t...

Considerations Involving Medical Data

In five pages this paper examines the problems posed by electronic medical information and the assistance offered by SISTeM in ter...

Psychological Approaches to Counseling

ask these questions because he is trying to find out if the patient has any understanding as to why his behavior makes him uneasy;...

Assessment Of Research Into Treatment Of Congestive Heart Failure

six months the intervention group had only 68 compared to 118 in the control group, likewise quality-of-life was found to be highe...

Disease Management/Hypertension

management (DM) concept Disease management (DM) is defined as a "systematic clinical improvement process," which addresses both ...

Using PrOACT

moving onto the objectives, looking at the alternatives and considering the consequences and the trade offs. In this paper we will...

Music As Sedation for Children

was evaluated using the Beth Israel Medical Center flow sheet sedation scale (Loewy, et al, 2006). If, after 30 minutes, the patie...

Statistics in Surgical ICU

within institutions where manual charting of ventilators settings is performed well, "automatic data collection can eliminate dela...

Addiction Transfer Disorder & Gastric Bypass Surgery

addicted to something else such as alcohol, gambling or compulsive shopping (Spencer, 2006). The realization that this is a proble...

Teenagers and Pallative Care

have changed considerably over the last century. This change is associated with a number of factors, the most prominent being our...

Occupational Therapy Practice and Recovery Framework Applications

recovery. Recovery is an admirable goal, and likely the only goal that carries true meaning for the patient and his family....

Autobiographical Memories and Review of a Psychological Article

memories will be based on more negative aspects of their lives, this does not effect the more negative nature of their life that l...

An Analysis of an Article on a Cardiovascular Single Unit Stay Program

Roberts and Traylor (2004) may be one that the students nursing unit might want to consider. In presenting this information to a...

Multiple Relationships Case Study

understandable retort, the psychologist the necessity of boundaries to illustrate the tenuous nature of such an outing. While the...

Environmental Analysis of HHH Home Health Care Company's Strategic Plan

care. Internal Environment Rising Costs As other types of health care providers seek to control their own costs, home healt...

Barrett's Definitions of Mutual Patterning and Power

Health patterning is a Rogerian nursing practice (Barrett, 2000). Barrett (2000) devised "the term Health Patterning to describe a...

UK General Ward and Mental Health Ward Risk Management Comparison

(Briggs, 2003). At the lower levels of the hierarchy there is also a very clear and specified role to accept "personal responsibil...

Impact of Managed Care

that the government did not intend when establishing Medicare in the 1960s. At present, Medicare virtually rules all of Ame...