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Reaction to Conversation Language And Possibilities A Postmodern Approach To Therapy by Harlene Andersen

followers must abide by the same doctrines. Post-modernisms discursive system was a reaction to and critique of modernism, with p...

'Con' Argument on Quotas in Nursing

Sharon Bernier, RN, PhD and President of the National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing, points out that Aikens study also...

Paternalism or Autonomy and the Hippocratic Oath

God" (Hippocratic Oath, 2001). It seems to me that the wording leads the young physician directly into the trap he hopes to avoid...

Uninsured Issues for Metropolitan Hospital Center of New York II

continues to battle against the ongoing nursing shortage. Today, the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that ...

Correcting Flawed Surgery Sites and Wrong Site Amputations

hospitals are not required to report mistakes that have been made to any sort of overseeing agency (Inskeep and Neighmond, 2004). ...

Frequency of Hemodialysis

2% were on home hemodialysis (Freitas, 2002, 167). There are many chronic problems associated with hemodialysis including hyper...

Patients and Diabetes

of condition in terms of importance due the impact on lifestyle and ability to result in death is not treated correctly (King et a...

Stroke Patient and Increases in Urinary Tract Infections

third of women with urinary tract infection will experience a recurrence during the following year, with recurrence being most com...

Exploration of Congestive Heart Failure

In seven pages this medical condition is examined in terms of its symptoms and treatment with a consideration of the role depressi...

Asthma Survey Results

this may not improve sleep quality (Mulcahy, 2004). One study has indicated that treatment with melatonin may aid sleep (Barry, 20...

Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Images of Darkness and Light

with the world of tradition, the world of civilization. Huddled within the womb-like interior of the Congo, he retreats ever furth...

Treatment Alternatives for CHF Besides Surgery

performed are not always that promising. To further complicate the success of SVR the age-old problem of surgery-related depressi...

Toxicity and Drug Absorption Impacts and Enzymatic Polymorphism

natural selection and the "accumulated mutations, deletions, duplications, and other changes" incurred by CYP families, they now a...

Right to Die Defense

and the bitterness on both sides of that unfortunate incident have brought the debate about the right-to-die to the fore. Ironi...

Mentally Challenged Individuals and Contract Law

stories are legendary about people who receive their tattoos under the influence. The problem is that with mentally challenged i...

Price Setting Case Study for Bair Hugger Device

and needs to be carefully monitored, and the water filled blankets may be effective if used above and below the patient by they ar...

Nursing Diabetes Patient Education Internet Websites

on diabetes into categories and addresses these topics on separate web pages, as does the first site. The homepage explains that t...

Article on Bypass Surgery Critiqued

which resulted in 47 practices taking part and two of these having two patients. The sample : 98 (75 male) consecutive patients w...

Dementia Patients and Use of Restraint

with at least one individuals background in patient care in conjunction with the theorists higher awareness of the interaction of ...

Medical Residents and Fatigue

to conduct studies of our own to assess the relationship between patient well being and medical resident work load. Much ...

The Treatment of Hordeolum

chlamydial, and rickettsial organisms" (Bessette, 2004). Inhibits bacterial protein synthesis (Bessette, 2004). E. Cloxacillin: "...

Five Questions on Medical Law

himself to be placed in charge of Thompsons case, he assumed the responsibility of having all adequate medical knowledge to pursue...

Evaluations of Biopsychosocial and Biomedical Health Models

true medical condition. The approach is taken even further by Thomas Szasz where any mental condition is not seen as a true medi...

Overview of Dolphin Therapy

dolphins could provide a piece to a perplexing medical puzzle that has long been missing. They can, these dolphin aficionados mai...

Depression and Senior Citizen Patients

the difficulties and losses inherent with aging. The assumption is often made that, with age comes transcendental wisdom, but res...

An Article on a Study of PICCs Critiqued

indicated as an advantage of PICCs can be initiated at the bedside by a registered nurse, which avoid the need for general anesthe...

Patient Service Improvements of NPs

and unequivocally made significant strides" within their specialty over the last two decades (Geiss and Cavaliere, 2003, p. 577). ...

The Truth In Lending Act

FRB amended Regulation Z to implement section 1204 of the Competitive Equality Banking Act of 1987 (Farm Credit Administration, 19...

Program Proposal for Diabetes Education

proposed method of resolution is to design, develop and evaluate a clinical, evidence-based "diabetic education program to increas...

Nursing and Teaching Patients

also as a result of the environment in which they are cared for, where smoking is banned. Teaching patients may be seen as a funct...