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Aging Parents and the Responsibilities of Their Children

This paper places the responsibility for caring for the elderly parents on the shoulders of their adult children. There are four ...

Report of Actual Ethical Cases

Anyone working in any area of mental health or social services faces ethical challenges and dilemmas on a regular basis and it is ...

Medication and Cultures

This research paper describes how health beliefs and cultural views of medication influence health behaviors. Three pages in lengt...

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5

This is the manual mental health care professionals use for diagnostic and informational purposes. The manual lists mental health ...

Older Adult Emergency Department Care

This paper pertains to the care of elderly patients in emergency departments (EDs). Three pages in length, four sources are cited....

Overview Major Health Organization

This paper discusses a major health care organization and its diversity. Several topics are discussed: data regarding diversity, m...

Problems in Rural Hospitals

Rural hospitals have more challenges in terms of staffing than even those in urban regions. They are handicapped in many ways, suc...

Tobacco Sales Ban in Pharmacies

This research paper focuses on the current trend in pharmacy policy to abandon the sale of tobacco products. The writer starts by ...

The Five Major Principles of the Canadian Health Act of 1984

the CHA. For example, in the western province of Alberta, Premier Ralph Klein has dealt wit the decline in federal funds by author...

Pain Management for the Elderly

has been estimated that between 49 and 83 percent of all elderly adults experience pain on a regular basis (Briggs, 2003). Desbi...

Policies of Safety and Health

ecosystems with respect for life not limited to human life. The health and safety issues will also extend to an educational role...

Saudi Arabia and Health Care

to improving standards of public health, noting that the infant mortality rate was reduced significantly between 1980 and 1993, an...

Senior Citizens and Long Term Care

Nursing homes have changed for the better over the years, but they still carry a negative connotation and generally only those who...

Long Term Health Care Facilities and Nosocomial UTI Infections

there was a problem of infections in long-term care facilities and in hospitals (Dimond, 1994). These are called nosocomial infect...

Ethnic Minority Children's Health Care and the Leeds' Report

repeated, each time taking into account social, economic and other changes which may be relevant. Both assessment and practice are...

Nurse Consultants and Their Role

on an evidenced based evidence based practice and the development of increased individual accountability in the area of clinical g...

The Elderly and Alternative Care Choices

runs $127 on average (Cummings, 2002). The goal of the ALF is to help senior citizens maintain as much independence as possible wi...

Exercise in Making an Ethical Decision

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

Dignity and Privacy Issues

regulation has been broadly down controlled by the integrity of medical practitioners. This model was one which was mainly self-re...

United Kingdom's White Paper Our Health, Our Care, Our Say

this were not a political issue then the attention would be focused elsewhere, also that with increasing costs in healthcare the n...

Regulating Health Care Professionals in Rhode Island

"minimum standards for licensing, vehicles, equipment for vehicles, personnel, training, communications and the treatment of acute...

Nursing-Sensitive Outcome Indicators

nursing quality of care" (Hart, et al, 2006, p. 256). These indicators specifically indicate that complications, such as pressure ...

Health Care Delivery in the United States

Impact of the Health Care Delivery System on the Availability of Health Education Services in the United States...

Health from a Sociological Perspective

having insufficient income to purchase services and items required to maintain good health, with many mothers go to in order to fe...

Questions and Answers about Health Care

deciding on health care coverage options? At the moment, health care coverage within the United States still follows a largely c...

The Creation of a Testing Measure for the Topic of Healthcare Reform

that mental disorders may have genetic, neurobiological and behavioral causes is helpful in legitimizing the application of method...

Assessing a Fall Prevention Implementation Plan

attitudes and motivation. However, in a criticism of the educational program, it has become apparent that certain aspects of these...

Adult Day Care Placement Benefits

not a socially accepted occurrence. In America, contempt and disrespect stem from the aspect of aging against ones will, with peo...

Infections of the Urinary Tract

This is significant to nursing because nurses have to learn to insert and remove the catheter from the patient which is sometimes ...

Impacts of Socioeconomic, Behavioral, and Environmental Factors on New Zealanders' Health

to be significantly more susceptible to the detrimental affects than others. Such locales as New Zealand appear to be on a direct...