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Angina Pectoris From a Nursing Perspective

risk factors that can be altered, with special attention to lowering cholesterol and blood pressure. B. Treatment of ischemia usua...

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...

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, ...

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). ...

Theoretical, Social, and Physiological Overview of Epilepsy

milder cases, a moderate amount of shaking may occur while the individual experiences a varied degree of disorientation and confus...

Transgenic Genetically Engineered Plant Applications

need to apply harmful pesticides. One of the precepts of transgenetics is that it will better the human condition. Today...

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 ...

Private Practice and Counseling That is Solution Focused

the counselor will try to understand the clients personal construction of the problem and help him to construct different meanings...

High Heels and Resulting Medical Problems

wear heels? It can result in a neuroma, leading to affected areas often between the third and fourth metatarsals (Christiansen, 20...

Epidemiology of Syphilis

so easily treated in many instances. At least one of the pharmacological treatment mainstays has recently been noted as ineffecti...

Overview of Myocardial Infarction

Heart attacks are commonly evaluated prior to entering the hospital (emergency room, ambulance, etc.) and relate to a specific set...

Inadequately Treating Mental Illness

continuation of any mental imbalance. It was not until the concept of the "mind" began to overtake such simplistic approaches, al...

Mentally Challenged and the Challenges This Represents

been diagnosed with a mental impairment that does not involve substance abuse, 5 million of these are considered to suffer from "s...

Repetitive Motion Injuries Such as Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

most common and most widely reported repetitive strain injury (NIN, 2005). Symptoms typically start gradually with a feeling of ...

Stroke Victims and Their Rights

The generic term "stroke" refers to a cerebro-vascular accident (CVA), which may occur on the left or right-hand side of the brain...

Overview of Sinusitis

whatever substances that have become trapped in it) toward openings known as ostia, which lead to a passageway in the back of the ...

Tables on Acute, Infectious, and Chronic Disease

1). Further, inadequate utilization of screening tests contribute to approximately half of the deaths resulting from cancer of th...

Examination of Diabetes

causes behind the increased incidence of this disease (Mathur and Shiel, 2003). Experts feel that, in general, the risk for type 2...

I Rode with Stonewall by Henry Kyd Douglas

the military critic... It is not my intention nor is it within the scope of this book to give a detailed report of the battle of B...

Overview of Coronary Artery Disease

known as hardening of the arteries (Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week, 2006). These plaque blockages can be either hard and consol...

Newborns and Nitric Oxide Pulmonary Therapy

In the standardized approach to treating persistent pulmonary hypertension in infants small amounts of nitric oxide gas are added ...

Sustaining Life or Death by Assisted Suicide

quality of life, the patient must be in such a frame of mind and body where life is a pleasure and not merely a perpetual struggle...

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...

The Enlightenment and Feminist Literature

Enlightenment must be researched as well. Finally, the literature from the age of Enlightenment by women in support of feminism sh...

3 Human Services Providers Websites Assessed

wide range of areas important in achieving and maintaining recovery from drug or alcohol addiction: * Enhanced self esteem * Inter...

HVC or Hepatitis C

Although certain populations are more prone to the disease, because young people are inordinately affected, this is a problem that...