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Plague and Hantavirus Animal Diseases

one highly vulnerable to contamination by virtue of dust-carrying particles and surface contamination (Colorado Department of Publ...

Environmental Analysis of HHH Home Health Care Company's Strategic Plan

care. Internal Environment Rising Costs As other types of health care providers seek to control their own costs, home healt...

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...

Manifestation Differences and Dyslexia

between 5% and 15% of all Americans (Health & Medicine Week, 2004). Padget has given a good definition of the condition, which it ...

Senior Citizens, Young People, and Suicide

to 14. Considering only adolescents 15 to 19, the suicide rate is "was 8.2 deaths per 100,000 teenagers, including five times as ...

Life Expectation Changes and the Theories of Betty Neuman and Calista Roy

are intrinsically connected to behaviors that cope with stress factors in the environment (Roy, 1999). The goal within this nursi...

DSM

also tells the user that when these symptoms occur together, or to the degree specified, the condition is usually called X (Riesen...

Mood Disorders and the MMPI Diagnostic Tool The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and the Diagnosis of Mood Disorders

allow a therapist to more fully understand their mental capacities and state. Testing is important as well in analyzing an indivi...

Overview of Multiple Personality Disorder or Dissociative Identity Disorder

sometimes revealing important information about the other identities (DSM-IV, 1994). The causes and signs of the disorder, then, ...

Etiology of School Age Children's Seizure Disorder

developing epilepsy; the changes increases to three percent at seventy-five years of age. The typical nature of epilepsy is to st...

DSM IV, Alcohol Abuse, and Family Effects of Diagnosis

In this paper consisting of six pages the DSM IV's role in both diagnosing and treating alcohol abuse in terms of the alcoholics a...

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...

An Overview of Antisocial Personality Disorder

In ten pages a diagnostic overview of antisocial personality disorder is provided along with a discussion of culture, features of ...

Family Dynamics and a Schizophrenia Diagnosis

In fifteen pages this paper examines schizophrenia in a consideration of the family dynamics after a member has been diagnosed wit...

Borderline Personality Disorder in Wendy

This 8 page paper discusses Wendy, a child diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. The writer uses a study that follows We...

DSM IV Diagnostic Criteria and Treatment of PTSD

after the exposure to the initiating traumatic event (Stein, 2002). If PTSD-like symptoms become evidence and are intense prior to...

Diabetes Education Lesson Plan

reason, who are newly diagnosed with Type II diabetes. The primary purpose will be to impress upon these patients the critical ne...

Family Health Intervention and Nursing Diagnosis

condition, her lack of awareness of her own limitations or lack of limitations in activity, and her response to various types of p...

An ADHD Review

"generalized impulsivity disorder, with the traits of impulsivity manifesting at the motor, emotional, social, and attentional lev...

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...

Bipolar Disorder

the brain has long been thought to be the cause, but researchers at Washington University have discovered possible structural abno...

Congestive Heart Failure

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

Unemployment in the US

projections that indicate further rises in the future. However, it may also be argued that nationally it is not really an issue as...

Adolescent Depression And Cognitive Behavior Therapy

29 percent of the entire group of patients at the beginning of the study (Weeks, 2004; NIMH, 2005). This rate was reduced in all f...

Patient Treatment Plan

She surveyed all of the independent living facilities in the local area and chose one; her grown children arranged and conducted t...

Aggressive Children, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Behavioral Interventions

In eight pages a discussion for basic behavioral interventions for children that either display aggressive behavior or have been d...

What You Should Know About Prostate Cancer

In twelve pages this research paper examines prostate cancer in a consideration of its symptoms, how it is diagnosed, and availabl...

The Central Nervous System and the Peripheral Nervous System

This 3 page paper gives an overview of diagnosing disorders of the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous systems. This...

Recommendations for a Vocational Rehabilitation Case

This essay offers recommendations that pertain to a vocational rehabilitation case in which the client has been diagnosed as havin...

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder DSM-IV and DSM-5

There are many differences between the two latest versions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The diffe...