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Terminally Ill Patients and Palliative Care

"many emotional, medical, and practical needs. These needs change over time, depending on the trajectory of...

Advocacy and Caring in Nursing

The link between nurse caring and patient satisfaction has been reported numerous times. For instance, the AORN journal reported a...

Software Development and Ethics

desire to increase revenue to allow further development and facilitate increased benefits to the users. The errors may not be as s...

Patient Care and Issues of Culture and Language

student--in respect to hospitalization. One question that also arises is whether the culture of the non-English speaking patient p...

Medical Law and Refusing Consent

it is these issues of autonomy and personal rights that are concerned the sanctity of life is a secondary issue and cases such as ...

Symptoms of Schizophrenia and Comments from Patients

2004). this symptom is sufficient for a diagnosis (HealthyPlace.com). Schizophrenia is treated with both drugs and therapeutic i...

Relationship Between Psychiatric Nurse and Patient

formulation with others, testing new behaviors, integrating this learning into "new, more satisfying behavior, and then using thes...

Illness and Culture in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent by Julia Alvarez

differences between cultures consist of variation in their main pattern in terms of these five dimensions and that these differenc...

Cultural Tolerance Determination and the Impact of Cultural Relativism

In five pages this paper considers whether or not cultural tolerance can be defended by cultural relativism. Five sources are cit...

Delivering Culturally Competent Service in a Healthcare Environment

nursing services, look at what it is and consider the way in which a particular organization may be compliant with a general frame...

Developing a Care Plan

prior to being admitted to the care facility, it is possible that these needs are not being met. There is also the religious need ...

Specialist Outpatient Clinics and Wait Time Factors

In ten pages this paper discusses outpatient clinics in a consideration of long patient waiting times and their various contributi...

Privacy Rights and Medical Records

In five pages this paper examines electronic medical record keeping and the violation of privacy that has resulted in a considerat...

Healthcare, Clinical Pathways Importance, and QA

In 1992, for example, this organization issued a mandate that all hospital chief executive officers become familiar with continuou...

Questions on Business and Economics

Six answers are provided to questions asked by the student. The first question looks at three different models of culture; Hofste...

Animal Assisted Therapy and the Relationship Between Dogs and Humans

emotional, physical and mental care. Dogs establish a fierce loyalty to their human families in a very short amount of time; bond...

Artificial Nutrition, Hydration, and Ethics

In twelve pages patient ethics are examined in a consideration of issues associated with artificial hydration and nutrition. Twel...

Pros and Cons of Chemotherapy for Cancer Patients

In ten pages an evaluation of cancer patients using chemotherapy treatment is presented through a consideration of its recovery ad...

Patient Care Ethics and Nursing Management

In eight pages this paper discusses nursing management shortage in a consideration of patient care ethics. Six sources are cited ...

Surgical and Medical Patients and the Value of Sleep

In two pages this paper summarizes and reviews a journal article in which the importance of sleep for medical patients is argued b...

Marketing's Cross Cultural and Cultural Influences

include language barriers, socio-economic status, religious beliefs, or other forms of restrictions that neglect to include the im...

Dementia Patients and Sexual Compulsion

In two and a half pages this paper discusses dementia patients in terms of sexual addiction in a consideration of etiology and tre...

Alcohol Treatment Therapy and Issued Involving Lesbian and Gay Patients

In seven pages this paper examines alcoholism treatment of homosexual patients in a consideration of various counselor issues. Fo...

Elderly Patients and Minimizing Physiological and Psychosocial Tracheal Tube Stresses

In five pages this paper discusses the postoperative stresses that are represented by tracheal tubes particularly as they involve ...

Health Care Communication Protocol Enhancement

protection. It seems that the purpose of the old system was typical as the facility needed communications. However, in health care...

Nursing and Patient Dignity

the inclination is to treat the dying patient with as little emotion as possible, so as not to suffer emotionally as well, many nu...

Two Scenarios in Medical Ethics

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

Nursing and Distance Education

a video that presents the patients symptoms and are presented with the question "What is the most likely differential diagnosis ba...

Etiology and Pathophysiology of Lung Cancer

cancer being observed (Wynder, Goodman and Hoffman, 1985). They also suggest that schools should place "major emphasis" on program...

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...