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A Case Study, Polypharmacy

This research paper presents a case study that illustrates how to properly address an instance of polypharmacy in an elderly patie...

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...

Clinical Considerations of a Tuberculosis Case Study

which initiates a series of events that will either successful contain the infection or prompt it progression toward active diseas...

Falls and Senior Citizen Patients

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

Depression and Senior Citizen Patients

the difficulties and losses inherent with aging. The assumption is often made that, with age comes transcendental wisdom, but res...

Impact Of Chronic Illness On The Elderly And Families

medications or they could be a sign of depression (Turner and Kelly, 2000). Turner and Kelly (2000) state strongly that it is e...

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...

Dehydration & Older Patient

dehydrated? Has literature simply made you aware of this potential problem? You might say something like: "Considering the dire co...

OpEd: Right of Refusal

on some theological idea that only God can end life. We wouldnt allow a dog or cat to suffer; why then do we force humans to do so...

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...

Lung Cancer in Men and Pain Management Through Narcotics

the 5 year mark after diagnosis (Kreamer, 2003). Tobacco use is the leading risk factor in regards to developing lung cancer and 8...

Various methods of pain management

in acute care is sensitive about the use of drugs in recovering patients. Exposure of abuses of past years has raised awareness o...

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...

Assessing the Success of an IT Implementation in a Healthcare Setting

The writer presents a paper which looks at the implementation of electronic patient records for a company providing medical care f...

Nursing Care for Elderly Patient

By addressing this need, which includes rehabilitation designed to aid her mobility, nursing intervention can also have a positive...

Assessment of a Bundle of Healthcare Services for Patients with Dementia

why this population may be seen as particularly vulnerable. The paper will then look in detail at the service offered, and then co...

Assisting Bedridden Elderly Patients: An Ergonomic Concern

This paper is on a primary care provider's concerns regarding the risk to a client's health and safety due to having to lift heavy...

Types of Pain and Treatment

This 6 page paper gives an overview of both acute and chronic pain. This paper includes a discussion of the study of pain. Bibliog...

Types of Pain and Treatment

This 6 page paper gives an overview of both acute and chronic pain. This paper includes a discussion of the study of pain. Bibliog...

Nursing Pain Management

This essay discusses a journal article that focuses on the assessment of pain and pain management by nurses. The essay analyzes an...

Chronic Pain Management

This research paper pertains to the case of veteran who suffers from chronic pain. Pain assessment methods are described, as well ...

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....

Scientific Knowledge on Phantom Limb Pain

In five pages this research paper examines the incidence of limb pain in lost organs in a consideration of scientific knowledge re...

Overview of Pain Management

causes the pain to become more intense than it would normally appear if the patient realized it was only triggered by a properly t...

Family and Effects of Chronic Pain

In fifteen pages a psychological viewpoint is taken in this examination of chronic pain and the effects it has on the sufferer and...

A Call For the End of Racism

This research paper chronicles the pain and suffering that can be attributed to racism in the United States. The writer calls on s...

Outpatient Clinic for Pain Management Establishment

surgery. Preventing such intense pain often requires less drug use than does alleviating the pain once it has begun (Siwek, 2001)...

The Theme Friendship in Steinbeck's, Of Mice and Men

its likely that Lennie will never remember. During the readers introduction to them they come upon a water hole which Lennie immed...

Suffering and Pain in Mitch Albom's Tuesdays with Morrie

In the story of Morrie we are faced with a man who knows that he will die. In these respects the pain experienced in the two stori...

Henry Cloud and John Townsend's How People Grow

theological or church background, but who come to the book with more questions than answers, will find this book as beneficial as ...