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and sustaining without yielding, they contend that bearing is a reaction which is more passive than coping but an activity which p...

In five pages this paper examines literature regarding the nurse's role in educating hospitalized patients on smoking cessation. ...

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

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

assisting registered nurses (RNs) in order to meet legislated requirements (Schaefer 9). This means that while RNs have fewer pati...

look for the date that the page was last updated to ensure that the latest health information on that subject is offered. The last...

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

Literature Review As the above summation indicates, the researchers provide a logical and persuasive argument for their selection...

Hippocratic oath extends not just to what a patient might tell a doctor but also to what a doctor concludes in regard to a patient...

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

every one-thousand children. Some forty-one thousand children aged five to fourteen in the U.S. alone are inflicted with this con...

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

of a unified health care organization that included both Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Womens Hospital (BWH...

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

and also consider the concerns of the patients. There have been many drugs developed that are good for the treatment of ar...

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

the written record. The patient also adamantly refuses a recommended treatment, but he is only 16 years old. The parents go along ...

controversial issues and decide accordingly the best way to appease both the law and the public; its decision about whether to inc...

that is, whether it will spread (metastasize) and what symptoms that it is likely to cause (Cancer diagnosis, 2005). The term "sec...

the needs of the dying and her work indicates that there are times when the most meaningful communication that a nurse can offer i...

influential resource and is a resource in which the patient will rely. Ethics Issues In this paper the treatment of a pati...

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

In five pages this research study on Alzheimer's patients and caregivers' long term intervention is subjected to a content critiqu...

the KA familys ability to utilize US healthcare systems (Donnelly, 2005). KA parents experience with schizophrenia in their chil...

In ten pages this research paper presents a literature review on team nursing as a way of increasing patient satisfaction. Thirte...

often a factor in nurse/doctor communication. Nurses can bring power to nurse/doctor interchange by harnessing the power of lang...

seclusion is not new. The American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA) reports that as early as the mid-nineteenth century ther...

characteristics of metal disorders may include abnormalities in cognition, mood or emotions; it may include abnormalities in integ...

that are often incurred as a natural part of the aging process (Wang and Wollin, 2004). These changes include "impaired vision and...

Rural Nurses, represented by registered nurse and practicing attorney Jacqulyn Hall, filed an amici curiae (friends of the court) ...