YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Care at the End of Life and Cultural Variations
Essays 91 - 120
love for their children. However, it quickly becomes evident that there is trouble in this paradise, as Alice has a problem, as sh...
the local communities in which it operates. Outsiders roundly criticize the company for not paying its employees a living wage as...
people from other cultures. Although we want to consider end-of-life issues for Native Americans, that is not one of the cultures...
rely on "surrogate" decision-makers, family members capable of making treatment decisions on their behalf. As a result, this stud...
In six pages this paper discusses Shelley's poem that has no end in a proposal of a fitting conclusion for it. There are no other...
include not only the emotional impact of being experienced by the patient and the relatives involved, but research has also relate...
out the way one may have originally intended; as such, a life perceived as less enlightened still encourages - and even requires -...
on, whether a lesson was learned, a new perspective was created or an emotional wound was made. Levinson (1986) illustrates how e...
care system. In 2004, Dr. David Brailer, pursuant to an presidential executive order, announced the Strategic Plan for Health Inf...
2005). It plunged her into a persistent vegetative state and she had lived life in that state for many years (Underwood, Adler & P...
with their prescribed regimen for controlling the childs epilepsy (Simon, 2003). They became so frustrated that they brought charg...
(Maier-Lorentz, 2008). Male doctors, for instance, may not be allowed to touch female Arab patients in certain parts of the body a...
Some years later, Hofstede added a fifth dimension, that of Long-Term Orientation. LTO determines the degree to which a society em...
this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come (New Inte...
for there to be many cultural differences. Being fluent in the language may serve to create understanding, but alone it will not ...
patient, the attending nurse is seldom in the room at the same time. The attending physician may refer the patient to a cardiologi...
figure would increase greatly in coming years (Cohen, 2003). There are twelve basic areas of social work practice, with each ar...
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 ...
services to their residents. The system is intended to provide access to medically necessary services to each person. In the lat...
of Healthcare Organizations is one organization which has had a definitive impact on the quality of care being provided across the...
implied (Retsas and Forrester, 1995). Take the action of the patient who rolls up their sleeve to receive a shot for example (Ret...
within cultures, and its important that these relative differences remain. However, he goes on to criticize, these are not issues ...
the patient prior to his death. The nurse clearly felt the need to encourage the family to stay and spend as much time as possibl...
without mentioning their love affair with olive oil, and the esteem which this precious ingredient holds in this culture (Miller, ...
of the true nature of their illnesses. While keeping such facts from the patients may be considered merciful it does, at times, en...
problems with its water supplies as extensive deforestation has taken place over the last century which have taken its toll on the...
and the church" and encompasses "spirituality, social support, and traditional, non-biomedical health and healing practices," whic...
wishes, she would remain on life support. This scenario has several ethical implications from the nursing or medical professional...
This paper speculates how an alien life form would view earthlings if he or she visited the planet in the year ten-thousand A.D. a...