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Substance Abuse in the Elderly Population

as many addicts often die early. But there are cases when substances are not abused early in life, but get picked up when the indi...

Patient Case Study

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

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...

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...

Holistic Wellness Plan

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

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...

2 New Proposed Laws

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

Gestational Diabetes

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

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...

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...

Inpatient Substance Abuse Treatment in the United States: Does it Actually Work? A Research Proposal

at any given time, 700,000 people in the United States are receiving treatment of some kind of alcohol dependence. In a 1992 nati...

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...

The American Influence on Saudi Arabia

very different than what American women are used to experiencing. Hence, there had been a fear of Americans because of their liber...

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...

Borderline Personality Disorder

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Definition and Types of PTSD

Hurricane Katrina is one of the most recent examples of an event that resulted in PTSD among some victims. Szegedy-Maszak (2005) ...

Coelho's The Alchemist and Fate

It is a "lie" that people are controlled by Fate, but at the same time, ones personal destiny is already laid out and what is more...

Overview of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

tendons in the passageway becomes irritated and swell (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, 2006). The result...

Collective Term Known as Dementia

instances that affects both genders of younger age groups (Draper, 2004, p. 82). Etiology Alzheimers disease is age-related, and ...

Schizophrenia

been great strides made in the treatment of the disease, enabling many patients to live full lives (Mueser and McGurk 2036). What ...

Examination of Breast Cancer

& Estrin, 2003). However, a core biopsy or incisional biopsy is when just a small part of the tissue is used ( Pfeuffer & Estrin, ...

Trauma Registry Databases and How They Are Used

trauma registry, then, has been viewed as a critical component to the successful development of any hospital or critical care trau...

Bone Cancer Case Study and Nursing Interventions

nurses as they engage in diagnostic, prescriptive, and regulatory operations of nursing" (Horan, Doran and Timmins, 2004, p. 30). ...