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Drug Therapy-Statins

bodies to produce an excessive amount of cholesterol (Statins safe, 2004). Left untreated, this condition is associated with havin...

Respiratory Care/Geriatric Case Study

on nursing care, particularly when considering the psychological factors of this model (Saliba, 2006). Breathing is one of the b...

California Medical Law Case

the patient (Overview of California Civil Lawsuit Filing Procedures, n.d.). This restriction may or may not apply in Dr. Sanders ...

Marketing Plan for Utilizing the Adult Nurse Practitioner at an HIV/AIDS Clinic

they do and so are less valuable in health care (Cys, 2004). NPs are and have been nurses first, and a requirement for the Master...

Slavery and Cash Crops in Virginia’s History

the 16th century, tobacco was already considered something of great worth. One author, Thomas Hariot, back in 1590, wrote A Briefe...

Study on Health Status and Participation Critiqued

evaluating information (including assumptions and evidence) related to the issue, considering alternatives ... and drawing conclus...

Tobacco Culture in Virginia's Chesapeake Society

gentry (Vaughn, 2004). In other words, the Chesapeake, as Englands first major experiment in North American colonization, was a "t...

Stroke Patients and Caring Assistance

have different concerns and worries which will need to be addressed prior to the tackling of the practical issues. The plan will...

Virginia's Visually Impaired Resident Services

particular interest, given the topic of vision, is the PAIR program in the state of Virginia. This program offers a cooperative re...

CBT

attitudes, and to use awareness and time to reconsider personal actions. The most positive end result is the adoption of better t...

Legislative Issues and Medicare's Prospective Payment System

a few years ago. Managed care was quite effective in cost containment until the mid-1990s, when health care costs began to rise a...

West Virginia's Pending or Recently Enacted Legislation

In three pages this paper discusses recent legislation in WV that has either been enacted or is pending. Four sources are cited i...

Issues with RHIOs

A RHIO is a type of health information exchange organization where certain professionals upload health/medical data and other prof...

Is the Teach-Back Model Effective

This essay follows a different format that usual. Questions are placed in a table with the answers following the question. Color c...

Quality Improvement Tools Healthcare

or the frequency level of falls in terms of overall patient numbers. For quality improvement to take place it is necessary not onl...

Explaining DNRs

agent, such as an adult child or another proxy. In recent years, the DNR has been included in the Physicians Orders for Life Susta...

Applying Utilitarianism to an Ethical Decision

for a long period of time. It may be noted that the problem was caused by steroid use when jerry was in his 20s, and the dangers w...

Reducing Falls Rates - Presentation of a Proposal

The paper is a presentation made up 12 slides and notes for the speaker. The presentation outlines a protocol for a new multifact...

Assessing an Investment for a Hospital

an assessed internal rate of return of 4.46%. This assessment was made using the accounting convention of conservatism. However,...

The Impact of Schizophrenia

the family are high, exacerbated by the death of Davids father. Feelings Gibbs reflective cycle will usually focus in the feelin...

Computer Tools and Inappropriate Prescribing for the Elderly

The incidence of inappropriate medication prescriptions issued to elderly individuals is estimated to be between 12 and 40 percent...

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...

Getting the Teenage Diabetic Patient to Comply

One of the main problems with teenage diabetes patients is getting the patient to comply with the diet and medication regimen. Thi...

Health Care, Bigotry, and Prejudice

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

A Nursing Perspective on Patient Mental Illness

This 15 page paper discusses seven patients who suffer from various forms of mental illness, and argues that there may be an under...

Patient Teaching Plan on Diabetes and the Internet

In five pages this paper examines how the Internet can be used as a tool to teach patients how to manage the disease diabetes....

Nursing and Issues of Confidentiality

In seven pages the confidentiality issues nurses must contend with are discussed within the weighty context of the trust between p...

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...

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...

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...