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Essays 1681 - 1710
2008). Incentive programs can actually have very positive outcomes if they are used correctly and ethically (Sabin, 2008). In so d...
"encouragement of facing probl4ems/fears, support of efforts to master problems/ears, affective experiencing/catharsis" (Coady 15)...
movement disorders, such as Parkinsons and dystonia. This procedure was initially developed in 1987 in France (Song, 2006). This a...
to base their arguments on more spiritual and ethereal ground, such as the idea that a persons life ends when God chooses to end i...
in place for some time, and none of the fears surrounding it have ever materialized (Seale, 2006). Research shows that 171 people ...
and Blood Institute, 2007). Zardi and colleagues (2008) referred to this procedure as the "gold standard" (p. 48) for assessing th...
patient, the attending nurse is seldom in the room at the same time. The attending physician may refer the patient to a cardiologi...
points out, medicalization is a process that defines a problem in terms of the practitioners perspective and cultural biases, rath...
the patient die (1975). Consider the case of a patient with terminal throat cancer, who is in terrible pain which cannot successfu...
there are those that are relevant to childrens protection as well, such as confidentiality. For example, during a recent visit tw...
is not an expectation based on fact or knowledge, it is based on hope. 2. Clinicians personal and professional values Personal ...
Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Tulsa. Linda W. Cardillo is a doctoral student in the School of Journali...
at any given time. More than a decade ago, Bigelow and Arndt (1995) suspected value in TQM in the hospital setting but wrote, "Th...
Visiting Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Tulsa. Linda W. Cardillo is a doctoral student in the School of...
a new, inexpensive test, called the Fox test, is now in circulation, and is available to help screen clinic patients. The test cos...
(Leason, 2002). The idea of joint working may have different manifestations, one of these may be the development of single ...
of spirituality is not uniform and that "spirituality" as a term is frequently used as a synonym for religion, which is not necess...
a chromosome deletion. The major symptoms of PWS are: infantile hypotonia, failure to thrive, hypogonadism; developmental delay;...
diagnosing it. It is not as if depression is difficult to diagnose. What is difficult is getting clients into facilities and to ad...
and height), an intense fear of becoming fat, and (in females) skipped menstrual periods for at least three months" (Grilo, Sinha,...
are, of course, special considerations which go into treating the elderly. We know, for example, that the elderly often experienc...
However, as indicated in the main heading, this behavior alone is not sufficient to indicate Aspergers Disorder. The fact that Bil...
are theoretically viable, but there is actually no evidence to support the claim that UPs will actually reduce the number of expos...
primary function is to "pump blood coming into the ventricles from the lower pressure venous system against the higher pressure ar...
to adulthood or general maturation processes. In an institutionalised environment, this can be a difficult transition, yet in a co...
responsible for their actions of over or under treating patients, and when can one say that the fine line is too sketchy? A case s...
sense that it is actively intended to cause harm, but negligence occurs when it is established that any reasonable person would ha...
not want his father informed), presenting a rationale for signing a health care proxy becomes extremely problematic. Guidelines us...
who are suffering from chronic ailments such as congestive heart failure, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), asthma and...
there was a problem of infections in long-term care facilities and in hospitals (Dimond, 1994). These are called nosocomial infect...