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Depression Treatment Disparities

treatment in most cases according to the practice parameters of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. This is t...

Home Care Senior Citizen Patients and Chronic Undertreatment

2. constant monitoring for potential complications 3. the willingness to utilize both pharmacological and nonpharmacologi...

Overview of a Hospital's Reduced Rate Prescription Drug Plan

to bring a new drug to market, and the developer has patent protection only for relatively few years. To recoup its investment in...

Ethical Issues in Mental Health Care Practice

This research team selected homeless adolescents as the focus for their study. While, in general, the concept that informed parent...

Senior Citizen Surgery Patients and Risk Assessment

planning for postoperative care (Dunn 36). For example, if a patient suffers from poor lung function, that patient is at greater r...

Impact of Managed Care

that the government did not intend when establishing Medicare in the 1960s. At present, Medicare virtually rules all of Ame...

Nursing Transcendence Relevance

In fifteen pages this research paper considers the relevance of the transcendence concept to the nursing profession and discusses ...

Concerns About Safety and the Shortage of Nurses

In five pages this paper discusses how the shortage of nurses compromises the safety of both patients and nurses alike. Six sourc...

An Anxiety Disorder Overview

In five pages anxiety orders are considered along with an examination of how family members can offer patient support by encouragi...

Marijuana versus Prozac in the Treatment of Depression

This 6 page paper discusses the merits of treating depression with marijuana instead of Prozac. The writer argues that using marij...

Etiology and Pathophysiology of Lung Cancer

cancer being observed (Wynder, Goodman and Hoffman, 1985). They also suggest that schools should place "major emphasis" on program...

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). ...

Patients with Diabetes and Diet

other organs, such as the heart, kidneys and eyes (Visalli, 1996). Although individuals with Type I diabetes must take insulin, d...

Home Health and Hospice Company Business Requirement Analysis

critical matters, employee requests for information often go unanswered for too long. Results can and have been employee frustrat...

UK General Ward and Mental Health Ward Risk Management Comparison

(Briggs, 2003). At the lower levels of the hierarchy there is also a very clear and specified role to accept "personal responsibil...

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...

Article on Nurse Staffing

In five pages a 2001 article by Sarah Jo Brown on the relationship between patient outcomes and nurse staffing according to a stud...

Advance Directives and Right to Life Decisions

This paper consists of five pages and discusses how the Patient Self Determination Act of 1990 pertains to health proxies, living ...

The Effects of Music on Managing Postoperative Pain Study Proposal

the elderly patient. Significance Careful consideration...

Nurse's Role and Bowel Elimination Influential Factors

post-surgical patients. Normal Bowel Elimination Allison (1995) recognized that maintaining bowel elimination is a substantial ...

Right to Live and Medical Ethics

Study Andrew is a 68-year-old male who was admitted to a medical intensive care unit after experiencing a stroke. On life ...

Stem Cell Research and its Advantages

It should be noted that this embryonic tissue is available as a corollary of infertility treatment or abortion,...

Nutritional Needs of Critically Ill Cancer Patients and Cachexia

positive outcomes. However, researchers and clinicians are constantly seeking new means of therapeutic intervention for treatment ...

Overview of Legionnaire's Disease

This paper consists of ten pages and discusses what hospitals and nursing staff need to know when treating patients suffering from...

Patient Care Quality and Nurse Staffing

In six pages this paper considers studies that explore the link between patient care quality and nurse staffing. Five sources are...

Newark Beth Israel Hospital Geriatric Patient Post Discharge Monitoring

and is a major referral and treatment center in the northern New Jersey metropolitan area (2001). Affiliated with the complex i...

Overview of a Personal Statement of Nursing

and long-term care facilities (CNRA). The CNRA also outlined the distinct functions of a nurse in the care of individuals, recog...

Patient Outcomes, Organizational Factors, and Nursing Competency

to insure that nurses continually perform their duties in the most competent and constructive manner (Cain, 2001). The establishm...

Patient Autonomy and Nursing Concept Analysis

be in agreement with a working definition of autonomy. Thus, the following attributes should be seen: self-determination, in...

Complaints and Nursing

that time. What might be needed, then, would be some plan of action that the staff could follow, or possibly some type of polite s...