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Nursing Shortage & Patient Safety

established that nurses are often involved in the "timely identification of complications," which, if acted upon swiftly, prevent ...

Avoiding Restraint and Seclusion

design. It is "not grounded in research that supports the therapeutic efficacy of this intervention, but upon the observation tha...

Appendicitis Diagnosis and Computerized Tomography Scans

prior to patient/surgeon consultation (Lee, Walsh, and Ho, 2001). In reality, such approaches are limited given that the most acc...

Physician Reported Syphilis and Ethics

what serves the greatest number serves the greater good" (London A12), rather than what is favorable for a few. Indeed, this has ...

Informed Consent and British Medical Law

upper house has, in fact, been in a state of suspended reform for almost a century - ever since the unelected Tory landowners who...

3 Nursing Theories as They Pertain to Geriatrics

of professional nursing, nursing theory provides perspectives and guidance that aids nurses in achieving their primary goal of pro...

Case Study of Patient Evaluation

The following are the five DSM-IV-TR Diagnoses based on the DSM Five-Axis determinations: Axis I: Alcohol dependence...

Setting Boundaries in the Therapeutic Relationship

welfare must be protected at a premium. If our definition of boundary violations, however, overlap our standard practices a dilem...

How Can Doctors Get Patients to Comply?

who "cheats" on his diet (1994). Doctors merely expect patients to comply with their dictums but this author says that some like S...

Pittsburgh VA Heathcare and Uninsured

provided by the veterans administration (Medicine News, 2007). Nearly 13 percent of all veterans fall under the ban to services pe...

Healthcare Communication

Asynchronous communication is that which does not require the simultaneous direct attention of all involved. It can take the form...

Health Care, Bigotry, and Prejudice

This paper considers various strategies that can be applied to prevent prejudicial relationships between health care workers and p...

Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Among African Americans

This 25 page paper provides an overview of the current literature regarding CVD in African American patients. Bibliography lists ...

The Germ Theory Of Disease And Chiropractic Philosophy Regarding Disease: Mutually Exclusive?

that are responsible for the fast spread of infectious diseases are those that have been detected within the environment; variant ...

Imogene King: Theory Of Goal Attainment

how to achieve restorative health within an environment of compassion, benevolence and intuitiveness. Indeed, the fundamental bas...

Chronic Illness and Public Health

This research paper pertains to the shift of focus that has taken place in regards to public health policy and practice, has it ha...

Pertussis Rises Again

By the 1970s, the country believed that scientists had finally controlled the spread of major diseases like whooping cough, also k...

STDs and Pregnancy

It wreaks its toll on 100,000 pregnancies per year (CDC, 2009). Gonorrhea and Hepatitis B are less common culprits among pregnant...

Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

a consequence rather than a cause (NursingLink, 2007). There has also been some evidence that the Epstein-Barr virus may cause Ho...

Case Study Analysis of Disease and Heredity

which would have put him at greater risk for dying of heart disease, regardless of his genetic makeup. Smoking is considered the ...

Law of Quebec and Fibromyalgia

The following discussion will examine how fibromyalgia cases are handled under Quebec law, and what options are open to the Quebec...

Disease and Various Factors to be Considered

by severe degeneration of the Central Nervous System, a degeneration which most often manifests prior to the age of three but whic...

Mad Cow Disease Variant Cruetzfeldt-Jakob (vCJD) (Mad Cow Disease)

(2001). In general, symptoms progress to problems with walking and muscle coordination as well as forgetfulness and memory disturb...

Avian Flu: A Student's Perspective

to the human population as well. Interestingly, biotechnology plays both a positive role and a negative role in this potent...

Graves Disease/Proposed Research

variety of immunologic features that are similar to autoimmune hypotheroidism, such as "high serum concentrations of antibodies ag...

Colorectal Cancer Prevention and Management

to the health care system, or that everyone should be screened just in case, but rather, that the testing can be uncomfortable, an...

Medical Evaluation Steps Regarding Coexisting Conditions and Chest Pain

professional must carefully evaluate this patient using all that is known about each of these conditions. Pain such as that being...

Enzyme Replacement Therapy Modes of Administration

to replace missing or defective enzymes, and some have argued that treatment options can often cause problems that hinder the effe...

Overview of Mad Cow Disease

In five pages this paper discusses mad cow disease or bovine spongiform encephalopathy in an etiology overview that includes the 1...

Three Lethal Diseases

consequences. As already mentioned the disease was first identified as a separate disease entity in November 1986 from which time...