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A Hemorrhoids and Constipation Plan of Treatment

clinical perspective, there are additional considerations. An assessment of the patient determined a presence of mild anemia and ...

Dorothea Orem and Florence Nightingale on Nursing Theories, Beliefs, and Values

prepared for this role" (McKenna, 1997, p. 87). Perhaps most significant of all was Florence Nightingales belief that env...

Home Oxygen Therapy

and TCPL2. The precise level of oxygen allowed per patient is prescribed by the patients physician. Too much or too little can b...

Gender, Surgery, and Hypothermia

to correct these deviations (Nicoll, 2002). If the hypothalamus senses that the body is too cold, the first autonomic response is ...

Cardiac Patents and Dietary Non Compliance

One of the more important lifestyle changes involves the diet. Coronary artery disease as the leading cause of death in the...

Diabetes Education Lesson Plan

reason, who are newly diagnosed with Type II diabetes. The primary purpose will be to impress upon these patients the critical ne...

Evaluation of a CBT session

on too long, she says things that do not need to be said, like the comment about not wanting to overwhelm him and they will go thr...

Ethical Dilemma Pertaining to a Do Not Resuscitate Order

disagree with his wife could disrupt their marital relationship at a time when he needs this support, which is undoubtedly one of ...

Adolescents and Pediatric Perioperative Nursing Interventions

an adolescent client (Wallis, 2004, p. 59). Data on the development of abstract reasoning skills, as well as of the "recognition o...

Positive Outcomes and Relationship Between Counselor and Client

can decide "how to proceed with a particular client" (Nelson, 2002). "Eclecticism" refers to the practice of using different th...

Concepts of Self Care

to the wide-ranging aspect of nursing than merely administering medicine; in fact, the myriad components that ultimately comprise ...

Blood Pressure and Hypothermia

a serious concern for the lower it is the more likely the body is to stop working all together. In addition, it is incredibly impo...

Care Barriers

in a Scottish farmhouse that is more than 10 miles from the nearest village and more than 50 miles from the nearest hospital. Jame...

Geriatric Case Psychosocial Assessment

serious enough to keep her in the ICU unit for three days. Still, it did not take long for Eleanor to resume her activities at ver...

Organizational Structure of a Hospice

in business for many years, and it is old enough that it now has several groups that support single aspects of the organizations o...

Staffing Ratios and Outcomes in Nursing

what was said in the first sentence of this essay - nurse shortages results in nurses being given unrealistic workloads (DPE Resea...

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...

Hispanics and Diabetes Management

Have you had any experience in helping a friend or family member manage diabetes? The patient replied that she was not aware of...

Asthma Survey Results

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

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...

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...

Balance of Philosophy and Nursing Values

not money" (Collings, 1997; p. 52). The sentiment was true long before the 1980 survey, and its persistence over time likely woul...

Senior Citizen Mental Illness Workplace Management and Prevention of Violence

to nonadherence to medication in the mentally ill elderly is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connot...

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...

Critical Modality of Humor

In three pages this research paper discusses how humor can be a modality that assists nurses in patient care as well as self care....

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 ...

Practical Nursing Theory Application

care model is highly useful with the elderly and those recovering from surgery or illness. Self care is not an issue that enters ...

Restraint Uses in Psychiatric Nursing

Yet both organizations also observe that, sometimes, it is necessary to use seclusion and restraint, as a last resort, in order to...

Outpatient Surgery and Risk

(Outpatient Surgical Centers, 2005). Surgeons generally are not part of the staff, but the centers employ all other positions req...