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Hypothetical Letter to a Mental Patient

the first place: it was your brothers wicked fiance Isabella who had dreamt up such nonsense in the first place, and convinced you...

Professional Strategies and Patient Autonomy

In 7 pages this paper discusses patient autonomy in a consideration of various strategies and the theories developed by Dorothea O...

Organ Donation and PVS Patients

In five pages this paper considers whether or not the organs of patients who are in a persistent vegetative state should be donate...

Swahili and Islam

In five pages this paper considers the historical relationship between the Islamic religion and the east coast African civilizatio...

Suicide and Patients with AIDS and HIV

not to endure that process or cause their loved ones to have to experience it with them. The impact of the loss of personal autono...

The Tradition of African Healing

This 8 page paper examines the role of several different African healers: the diviner, the herbalist, and the traditional healer. ...

Shame in Between Tides by V.Y. Mudimbe and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

This research paper contrasts and compares how shame is used in these African novels in ten pages. Four sources are cited in the ...

Dementia Patient Aggression Treated Nonpharmacologically

patients, and as such may not be as acceptable or desirable (Saltzman, 1985). Other limiting factors in the use of drugs c...

Nursing Unionization and Effects on Employers and the Care of Patients

In eight pages this paper assesses the benefits and detriments of nursing unionization from patient and employer perspectives. Sev...

The Commonalities and Influences of African Mythology

the changes which have occurred vary according to the specific African culture being discussed, there are certain commonalities wh...

Health Outcomes in the Inner Cities

in 2001 (Griggs and Bazie, 2002). The median household income dropped across the board, including all racial-ethnic groups with t...

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and Money's Influence

her husbands death, Mama assumed her role as head of the family, dedicated to her fervent dream that one day, she will own a nice ...

African Hominids and the Determination of Phylogenetic Relationships

these approaches and then to explore their relationship to the phylogenetic classification of the African hominids. Forey a...

African Epic Sundiata

However, supernatural strength is indicated when he finally does stand. Sundiata instructed that a heavy iron rod should be brough...

The Terminal Patient: A Case Study

paradigm but without the fantasy that acceptance is the ultimate outcome. In treating this patient, a student writing on the subje...

Patient Outcome and Defining the Contribution of Nursing

authors have explored the importance of the holistic approach in positively impacting patient outcome. As early as the 1970s rese...

Blood Glucose That is Not Controlled and Patient Perceptions of Long Term Impact

are certainly those patients who understand that they have a chronic disease which has the potential to be life-threatening and ar...

An Article on Breast Cancer Patients and Food Choices Critiqued

been the principal focus in current research (1997). Studies focusing on school children generally include a food preference compo...

Health Care Workers and Treating Patients Who Inflict Self Injury

for further self-harm to occur. Pembrooke and Smith recommend, for example, that triage staff assume that even minor injuries repr...

New Orleans' Mardi Gras Carnival

also makes the point that there was, in the 1900s, a strict divide between Creole and Black culture in New Orleans, maintained as ...

Tools and 'King Leopold's Ghost' by Adam Hochschild

and far-reaching. Defined as a breakthrough for human rights, the significance of his account speaks to the notion of struggle am...

Patient Care Perception and Nurse Uniform Color

that make use of color, but even these efforts have not typically met with good response by patients or hospital administrators (S...

'The Interesting Narrative' by Olaudah Equiano and 'Things Fall Apart' by Chinua Achebe

they do not inflict slavery upon the people, they do inflict oppression that is very similar to slavery. In the first chapter o...

Issues of Managed Care and Patient Rights

and more nurses are standing at the front lines of managed care, acting somewhat as liaison between the patient and managed care o...

Five Patients by Michael Crichton

presented with a kind of awe and hope in terms of the medical industry. We are also provided with a look at interns and the ent...

Animal Cognition and Intelligence

Those misgivings largely fell away with Griffins studies into the communication systems of bees. He used that work to prove anima...

West African Families and Female Circumcision

regions, the "lips" of the vagina, the labia minora and labia major, are also cut. The most severe form of female circumcision is ...

European Modernists and African Art's Influences

Picasso was interested in African art, as were many other artists of the time. His interest in these pieces began to appear in his...

Women and the African Diaspora

practices of their homelands. African Diaspora in the 21st Century Chukwu-Emeka Chikezie (2002) addresses the issues associated w...

'A Noiseless Patient Spider' by Walt Whitman

Whitmans lyric style -- "A Noiseless Patient Spider." Although the subject of the poem is a lonely spider, the tone is formal, wh...