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Geriatric Case Psychosocial Assessment

serious enough to keep her in the ICU unit for three days. Still, it did not take long for Eleanor to resume her activities at ver...

Terri Schiavo Case and Withholding Nutrition in Comatose Patients

controversial issues and decide accordingly the best way to appease both the law and the public; its decision about whether to inc...

Morbidity and Mortality, Introduction of ART on HIV

This research paper presents a proposed project that address the introduction of antiretroviral therapy in regards to treating HIV...

Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: The Legal and Ethical Dimensions

or another, enter into ethical quandaries as a result of their regular operations. This is because virtually all organizational ac...

Arguing Against Nurses Participating in the Death of Patients and the Christine Busalacchi Case

Rural Nurses, represented by registered nurse and practicing attorney Jacqulyn Hall, filed an amici curiae (friends of the court) ...

Evaluation of "Analyzing Hospital Readmissions Using Statewide Discharge Databases"

of outcomes of care - Source of unnecessary - and high - costs - Fragmented state to state - Based on varied data * The problem ha...

Care Partners/RNs & PCTs

the supply by 2010 (Kleinman and Saccomano, 2006). Traditional nursing care models, such as primary nursing, are founded on the su...

Article Critique/Awareness of Impending Death

of dying and that some of this research indicated significant differences in this awareness. This leads into a discussion of what ...

Aging with MS/Article Analysis

be used. Discussing qualitative research in general provides a topic to which outside sources can be logically applied. This write...

Avian Flu 2

include HPAI in a local bird population and contact with another patient with an unexplained repository disease and a positive res...

Persistent Vegetative State Patients and Ethical Decision Making

the balloon, and certain gestures, were definite responses to the environment and evidence of consciousness, but the doctors disag...

Mentally Ill Elderly/Syphilis Screening

A 5 page research paper that offers a summary of evidence relating STD incidence in older populations and how whether nor this con...

Doctor - Patient Confidentiality

Hippocratic oath extends not just to what a patient might tell a doctor but also to what a doctor concludes in regard to a patient...

Substance Abuse And Dual Diagnosis

with mental illnesses may reach out to drugs or alcohol to ease the pain they are feeling. It becomes very difficult to separate t...

Patient Advocacy, A Concept Analysis

as a central tenet to professional practice (Hanks, 2010). Both the American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics and the Code ...

Article Critique of Prader Willi Syndrome and Food Preferences

a chromosome deletion. The major symptoms of PWS are: infantile hypotonia, failure to thrive, hypogonadism; developmental delay;...

Stem Cell Research and its Advantages

It should be noted that this embryonic tissue is available as a corollary of infertility treatment or abortion,...

A Nursing Analysis of 'A Study of Practicing Nurses Perceptions and Experiences of Intimacy within the Nurse-Patient Relationship'

it is useful to follow certain well-established frameworks for critique of qualitative research. For the purposes of this report, ...

Research Proposal on SNFs and the RN Shortage

well. This study also appears to be sound scientifically. Its primary means of data analysis is statistical; the methods b...

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...

Article on Nurse Staffing

In five pages a 2001 article by Sarah Jo Brown on the relationship between patient outcomes and nurse staffing according to a stud...

Patient Care Quality and Nurse Staffing

In six pages this paper considers studies that explore the link between patient care quality and nurse staffing. Five sources are...

Nursing's Legal Issues

In ten pages this paper considers a legal brief's argument regarding nurse participation in patient deprivation of water and food ...

NP role in EDs/Study Article Critique

and theoretical Framework: The instrument designed for use in this study drew heavily upon the survey developed by Cole, et al, wh...

Prostate Cancer and Quality of Life

cancer affects both the man and his life partner. In most cases, study designs addressing quality of life issues for prostate canc...

Research Design and Methods Analysis

the traditional one-on-one model" (Herrara, Vang and Gale, 2002, p. 4). Prior to presenting their method analysis section, the res...

Psychopathology Case Analayis

This paper addresses psychopathology in respect to employment and education and evaluates influences on the lives of various patie...

Mental Illness and Confidentiality Issues

In seven pages this paper explores the Tarasoff v. Regents Of The University of California case in this consideration of mental il...

Music Therapy and Cancer Patients

In twelve pages a literature review is included in this hypothetical study that considers the effects and potential benefits of mu...

Watchdog Group of Dental Providers

In three pages how dentists can act as a watchdog group in terms of identification and reporting adult female patient abuse cases ...