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The Parish Nurse and Advanced Practice Nursing

issues of spirituality. In essence, the parish nurse has the ability to treat the whole patient, rather than only addressing symp...

Poets Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, and Nature

the spider and it is true for man as well. Obviously, he doesnt actually say this specifically but he instead illustrates it thro...

Advance Directive Uses

before intubating her, but the woman needed an airway cleared right away. Only after restoring breath to the woman did they learn...

Controlling Costs and HMOs

a total of more than $4,000 for every citizen of the country (Grumbach and Bodenheimer, 1994). Plagued by overspending for years,...

Adolescent Type I Diabetes Care Plan

much sugar remains in the blood and too little energy is transferred to other cells. The diabetic needs to take externally adminis...

A Needs Assessment for Diabetes Education in New York City

provide the physician interface. Beyond these duties are the operational and administrative duties required in this type of facil...

A Lesson Plan For Diabetes Education

routine activities necessary to their own care. The purpose is that with a nurses direction, encouragement and initial supervisio...

Instructional Approaches Assessed

must have at least some knowledge of the topic of discussion beforehand, or the discussion can disintegrate into an exercise in "p...

Diabetes Education Expanded Lesson Plan

environment. That open system "interacts with internal and external stressors and is in a state of constant change, moving toward...

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...

Dignified Dying Through Hospice Care

In four pages this paper examines the important assistance hospices offer in terms of the process of dying and specifically discus...

Withholding Treatment and Ethical Issues Pertaining to Nursing

In four pages this paper examines the ethics of withholding treatment in the form of hydration and nutrition from patients who are...

Assisted Suicide, Ethics, and Nursing

way, before his mind too, was gone." As a nurse, this presented me with what I felt were two conflicting goals. On the one hand, ...

Hospice Care, Dying, and Death

In three pages a nursing perspective is applied to a hospice program that deals with terminal patients through investigative resea...

Terminal Illness and Counseling

In fifteen pages this research paper discusses how psychologists, clerics, physicians and nurses can counsel patients who are term...

Standard Coronary Bypass and MIDCAB Benefits

In eight pages this literature review emphasizes the benefits of the minimally invasive MIDCAB direct coronary bypass surgical pro...

Elective Cholecystectomy Stress Levels Study

In seventeen pages this research paper examines the effects preoperative education has on patients electing to undergo elective ga...

Journal of Advanced Nursing Article 'An Exploratory Study of Recipients' Perceptions of Bone Marrow Transplantation' III

This paper consists of three pages and presents an article analysis involving post surgery and recovery investigation of patient r...

Health Care Quality, Nursing Job Satisfaction, and a Review of a Nursing Journal Article VI

In two pages an article featured in a nursing journal is reviewed that considers the correlation between patient health care quali...

Continuing Education for the Healthcare Professional

Continuing education is a universal requirement for professionals in the healthcare industry. This paper presents a lesson plan on...

Program of Continuing Education

In five pages this paper considers educating patients about menopause in a seminar by exploring its core objectives. Two sources ...

Marijuana for Medical Purposes

In ten pages this paper argues in favor of a medical need for marijuana to be legally used citing the similar character properties...

Dangerous Practice of Assisted Suicide by Dr. Jack Kevorkian

In six pages this essay presents and argument against Dr. Jack Kevorkian's practice of assisting terminally ill patients to commit...

Dr. Jack Kevorkian's Actual Motives

In five pages this paper argues that the intent of Dr. Jack Kevorkian was to perform human experimentation and not to assist termi...

Quality in Health Care and the Effects of Agency Nurses

In seventeen pages this research paper examines the U.S. system of health care in terms of the empirical studies that indicate the...

Medical Technology and Computers

In seven pages medicine and its computer history are considered with such concepts as telemedicine, computer aided surgery, and 'v...

Suicide and AIDS

In a paper consisting of twelve pages the ethical, social, and cultural issues involved in the issue of suicide and AIDS patients ...

An Emergency Medical Perspective on AIDS

In a paper consisting of six pages AIDS' causes and treatment are considered with particular emphasis upon the minimal risks to he...

Health Care System Negligence

sense that it is actively intended to cause harm, but negligence occurs when it is established that any reasonable person would ha...

Registered Nurse's Hospital Role

several years. Psychologically, it has been found that individuals more actively involved with their own health care often fare m...