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Dorothea Dix, Pioneer of Nursing

Dixs problems with mental health may have inspired her passion for aiding those who were diagnosed as being mentally unstable or i...

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Cognitive Therapy

or a loved one; these fears often present themselves as disturbing thoughts (Definition of obsessive-compulsive disorder, 2002). T...

Health and Poverty/Incidence of Childhood Asthma

engine contains features that help to limit a search. The writer/tutor selected "scholarly" material published after 10/01/2002 an...

Guillain-Barre Syndrome

and specific therapy" (Newswanger and Warren, 2004, p. 2405). As patients advance through the acute phase of the illness, supporti...

Beatrice C. Mosionier/In Search of April Raintree

It has never been out of print since its publication and has been translated into "French, German and Dutch" (Taillon 16). Written...

Periodontal Disease

with daily brushing and flossing, and regular cleaning by a dentist or dental hygienist" (Periodontal disease, 2007). One exceptio...

Holistic Wellness Plan

readiness within 60 days. MIND Nursing Diagnosis: Readiness for Enhanced Individual Coping Goal: The patient will reduce anxiet...

Patient Case Study

edema in MS bilateral lower extremities suggests diminished cardiac function is occurring. MS was assessed with potential previou...

Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome And The Counting Method

upon as wholly overwhelming. II. SUMMARY The individual conjures up a traumatic memory while the therapist counts from ...

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)

that people HIV did not affect the mainstream, it was ignored. First, what is HIV exactly? HIV is the virus that causes AIDS and s...

Adolescent Depression : Review Of Articles

more attention needs to be given to the diagnosis and treatment of this illness. Any wide-spread illness is expensive to the patie...

Gestational Diabetes

(Perkins, Dunn and Jagasia, 2007). Research has shown that the "magnitude of fetal-neonatal risk" is directly proportional to the ...

2 New Proposed Laws

inspection program" that pertains to "breeders, dealers, kennels and shelters with more than 25 dogs" (Seibel, 2007). Inspections ...

Alcoholism in the Workplace

course, is one of the more prominent of the substances being abused (Plouffe, 2001). This results in estimated losses of $9.2 bil...

Nursing Care for Hypertension

defined as a systolic blood pressure of greater than or equal to 140 mm/Hg) was linked most commonly to individuals whoa re overwe...

Borderline Personality Disorder

reckless driving, overspending, stealing). [Again, not including suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5] (Ame...

Water Resources Mitigation: Man-made Wetlands for Effluent Distribution

some respects they have improved. Unfortunately, in other respects the problem of how to deal with wastewater has become more dau...

Congestive Heart Failure

the kidneys are not capable of disposing "sodium and water" (American Heart Association, 2007); this is what cases the edema (Amer...

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

of the condition. In the film, he was so obsessed with germs, he brought plasticware to a diner everyday instead of using ordinary...

Wernicke's Aphasia

and Klima, 2002). In Wernickes aphasia, the damage to the brain is most typically to the temporal lobe (NIDOCD, 2006). It is typic...

Practicum Proposal: PTSD in Women Victims of Violent Crime

diagnosis or believe they do not. PTSD The American Psychiatric Association has specific guidelines for diagnosing PTSD, sp...

Syphilis

it to other men (CDC, 2004). The amount of men who have the disease appears to be 3.5 times higher than women (CDC, 2004)....

Ovarian Cancer/An Overview

: The precise causes of ovarian cancer remain unknown, but some researchers believe that it has to do with the processes of tissue...

How to Treat Hypothermia

cases, victims will not need to go to the hospital anyway. Yet, if the case is severe, the best ting to do is to treat the victim ...

Sex Offenders and the Correctional System

Even within the segregated unit there is a hierarchy: "People charged with rape and other sex crimes will attack child sex predato...

Discovery And Historical Development Of Radiation Oncology

This 5 page paper is a PowerPoint presentation on the discovery and history development of radiation oncology. The presentation ou...

Paranoid Schizophrenia

not the case that there is a greater likelihood of both twins being afflicted with schizophrenia; often, one twin has it but the o...

Cardiomyopathy

number of heart attacks is that heart disease is associated with the wide scale accumulation of gunk in the walls of the arteries ...

Bacterial Vaginosis

BV is caused by a "lactobacilli depletion" combined with excessive growth of primarily "Gram-negative pathogens" (Lavan, 2005, p. ...

Case Study/ICU Wound Mgmt

(Cardozo, 2003, p. S35). Within a few hours of being admitted to the ICU, Jacks condition was evaluated using the Waterlow risk as...