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is why it is sometimes difficult to understand the humane element of living wills and DNRs. Until one has been in the place of an...

of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), define an "Advance Directives," as "l...

and respiration. Her parents were told that she would never recover, but that her body could be kept alive indefinitely through ar...

This paper examines employment legislation in an overview of EC directives' effectiveness in Great Britain in seventeen pages....

as enacted in the various Directives is to establish coherent and common policies across the Community. Given the cultural and eco...

In a paper of four pages, the author reflects the importance of a crisis management process that would impact the decision-making ...

This paper consists of five pages and discusses how the Patient Self Determination Act of 1990 pertains to health proxies, living ...

the cracks of indigent health care. The hospital quite naturally is concerned about the cost of continuing to provide care for Mr...

As we live longer, we are subject to acquiring one or more chronic illnesses, some of which come with advancing age. Older age ran...

the balloon, and certain gestures, were definite responses to the environment and evidence of consciousness, but the doctors disag...

Accepted practice is to use any routine tool available, which means that a patient whose kidneys have ceased to function will be p...

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

Mr. Schiavo finally was allowed the right to have his wifes feeding tube removed, the right to allow her to die of lack of nutrien...

time during which their loved ones are kept artificially alive, or they have to face months of litigation for permission to turn o...

it is these issues of autonomy and personal rights that are concerned the sanctity of life is a secondary issue and cases such as ...

fact that his or her life has been reduced to nothing more than waiting to die, it is not possible to pass judgment as to the asso...

Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRN) are licensed registered nurses (RNs) who have advanced graduate degree education. They ...

This research paper offers an overview of issues pertaining to advanced nursing practice and the impact of advance practice nurses...

is considerable "uncertainty, confusion and a general lack of knowledge" concerning advance directives (Payne, 2007, p. 545). Th...

to provide adult individuals, at the time of inpatient admission (or enrollment) information about state laws rights concerning ad...

This paper emphasizes the importance of home health care by outlining typical day in the life of a home health care provider. The...

In twenty five pages the fire department's successes are assessed and include the application of Advanced Life Support Care System...

version of history must be selected. Therefore, the following "addition" to Acts is based on scholarship in the Catholic Encyclope...

or values. It is by understanding leadership and its influences that the way leadership may be encouraged and developed in the con...

While CHF has a mortality rate that ten times that of AIDS and is also responsible for far more hospitalizations than cancer, even...

right to live if it is possible, one could well argue that it is never anyones duty to die. Battins essay, however, speaks of th...

by the caring physical presence of this nurse in her last remaining hours. However, the way in which this case turned out saw the ...

become a prominent question in the care of patients. Society and medical practitioners continually face many dilemmas at the end ...

as the End of Times. Many strong Believers believe we are already in the End of Times. It is during this time there are great Spir...

wishes, she would remain on life support. This scenario has several ethical implications from the nursing or medical professional...