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Home Care Senior Citizen Patients and Chronic Undertreatment

2. constant monitoring for potential complications 3. the willingness to utilize both pharmacological and nonpharmacologi...

The Villa San Girolamo Setting of The English Patient

true despite the fact that it has been hurt by war. It stands. The people are in some way in a sense of a denial. The author goe...

Senior Citizen Surgery Patients and Risk Assessment

planning for postoperative care (Dunn 36). For example, if a patient suffers from poor lung function, that patient is at greater r...

Nursing Home Patients And Their Vulnerabilities During Disasters

food, clean water and - most important for some people who did not survive - electricity to keep their life-sustaining equipment r...

Pathologic Gambling In Parkinson's Disease Patients Using Dopamine Agonist

which dopamine agonists and levodopa therapy works synergistically to provide physical benefits is both grand and far-reaching; th...

Adverse Drug Reaction Among Elderly Patients: Impact Upon Costs And Length Of Hospital Stay

population want to be able to take care of themselves, yet they are rarely given the tools with which to accomplish this objective...

Hand Washing and the Care of Patients

preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...

2005's Safe Nursing and Patient Act, Legal and Ethical Concerns

is simply to require that their nursing staff make up for understaffing by working mandatory overtime on a more or less permanent ...

Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Images of Darkness and Light

with the world of tradition, the world of civilization. Huddled within the womb-like interior of the Congo, he retreats ever furth...

Terminal Patients and Hospice Healthcare

we all must personally face. Dealing with the death of a loved one, however, can be considerably more difficult than facing the f...

Schizophrenic Patients and Therapeutic Nursing Relationship

(Wichowski, 2004). This certainly appeared to be the case for Elvis, as he complained about the "Croatian people" in his head who ...

Elderly Patients and Medication for Asthma

medication are adequate, symptoms are controlled and most asthma-related problems are avoided (Francis, 2004). There are two maj...

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...

Symptom Management Utilizing Behavioral Modification Techniques for Cancer Patients

fighting the more personal types of cancer in particular necessitates careful attention to ethical conduct. Informed consent, for ...

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) ...

Frequent Nocturnal Urination, Older Male Patient

This paper focuses on the problem of nocturia, which refers to frequent nighttime urination. Assessment, causes, and management ar...

Elderly Patients/Insulin Administration

This paper pertains to an EBP project proposal that involves a shift from SSI (sliding scale insulin) to the basal-bolus approach....

Consumers and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

This paper considers the relative impact of Obamacare. Texans in particular have not always benefited from the federal mandate on...

Patients Going to Latin America for Treatment

Medical and dental costs have soared in the United States. Insurance plans are sometimes tricky in their language and they do not ...

Nutritional Needs of Intubated Patient, COPD

This research paper describes COPD, a case study, and then presents recommendations for meeting his nutritional needs. Five pages ...

Cancer Patients and Nutrition

This research paper/essay offers a discussion of the importance of nutrition and its effects on cancer survivors. Three pages in l...

Interventions for Patients

This essay provides information and insight on different psychotherapeutic interventions for different mental illnesses. Psychodyn...

Patient-Doctor Conflicts

This essay reports the case of a depressed teenager who attempted suicide. The attending physician is not his regular doctor. The ...

How to Better Help Schizophrenic Patients

This paper points out the importance of using evidence-based practices with people who have schizophrenia. The paper includes sect...

Care for Patients Suffering from Addiction, an Article Analysis

This article analysis pertain is on an article authored by Bartlett and colleagues (2013). The article is summarized and the write...

Overview of Type 2 Diabetes Patient Education

This research paper discusses the characteristics that pertain to the target audience for a diabetic educational program. Also des...

Cultural Considerations for a Home-Bound African American Patient

American vernacular, the diet is one that has characterized the South and its inhabitants for generations. With a few extraordina...

Appalachian Patient: Cultural Considerations For Medical Treatment

proximity and/or behavior man has imposed upon his own species. Social norms play an integral role in both setting and meeting th...

How Exercise Delays Onset Of Dementia In Alzheimer's Patients: Literature Review

protocol. Rosenberg et al (2005) and Larson et al (2006) detail the pursuit toward getting the elderly population in step with be...

Safe Nursing and Patient Care Act

"study and report to Congress on standards for the maximum number of hours that a nurse may work without compromising the safety o...