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A Beautiful Look at Schizophrenia

niece Marcee, a sweet little girl he absolutely adores (Howard, 2001). But none of these people is real; they are the creations of...

Refusal of Care: The Ethical Dimensions

refers to instances in which patients who have been admitted to a health care facility decide to refuse treatment from doctors (Lo...

Diagnostic Approaches to Mental Illness

clinicians rely on the DSM to diagnose their patients. It is credible insofar as it is published by the American Psychiatric Assoc...

Medical Error and Quality Care

of a busy dermatological practice. This dermatologist see as many as 100 patients a day and is known as an "expert in the evaluati...

Medical Law

In order to determine whether or not the consent form signed is valid we need to consider the concept of informed consent. The con...

Issues of Schizophrenia, Pregnancy, and Mental Health Nursing

In eight pages this paper discusses schizophrenia in pregnant women from the perspective of mental health nursing. Eight sources ...

Nurse's Role : Patient Smoking Cessation

with clear results provided. Quantitative and Discussion articles needed to present information that directly addresses the purpos...

A Case Study Concerning the Move to Electronic Patient Records

The aim is to change the NHS culture to an information culture that will maximise recourses through an appropriate infrastructure....

PATIENT PRIVACY AND SECURITY SYSTEMS

This 8-page paper discusses the importance of patient privacy and how a patient privacy plan to can be developed and implemented. ...

The Theory of Human Caring

al, 2009). The theory came from "the results of studies accomplished by the author along her Doctorate in Clinic and Social Psycho...

The Nurse Educator, Postprostatectomy Patients and Informative Websites

Dr. McCullough is "Director of the Sexual Health and Male Fertility and Microsurgery Programs at New York University School of Med...

Do Cats Cause Schizophrenia - A Research Proposal

that pregnant women who are exposed to this infection in the early term "cause severe fetal CNS abnormalities" (Yolken and Torrey,...

Best Practice in Ensuring Infected Wound Healing

potential for long term physiological complications as well as long-term emotional impacts. Not only does the type of care needed...

Organizational Change in St. Vincent's ICU

Hospital. The purpose here is to describe and evaluate the restructuring of St. Vincents ICU to gain one-on-one nursing and so im...

Breast Cancer Research & Ethics

personal opinion can affect human behavior, and the frequently complicated nature of ethics complications in cancer research. It a...

Ethics, Blood Transfusions & Jehovah's Witnesses

be immensely helpful in gaining insight into the specific issues involved and subsequent perspective on what course of action to t...

Overview and Characteristics of MPD or DID

one of the primary causes of MPD, most especially when the trauma is related to child abuse. Findings over the last two decades i...

Schizophrenia

been great strides made in the treatment of the disease, enabling many patients to live full lives (Mueser and McGurk 2036). What ...

Mood Disorders and Schizophrenia

environment which fed the development of the disease, relapse is not uncommon ("Schizophrenia," 2006). Complete recovery is a poss...

Controlling Asthma

Surveys suggest there are more asthma patients with uncontrolled asthma than patients themselves think. The Asthma and Allergy Fou...

Adding MRI to the Orthopedic Practice

for its lack of market-changing competition (Porter and Teisberg, 2004), but competition exists nonetheless, if only indirectly. ...

Organizational Structure and Patient Care

Statement, 2006). It is also a goal of HHC to "join with other health workers and with communities in a partnership" (Mission Sta...

The Portrayal of Schizophrenia in “A Beautiful Mind”

seems to ring true" (Rosenstock, 2003). In the film, Nashs hallucinations take a visual form; his roommate, the man he believes re...

Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP)

factors that have been identified include "diabetes, alcoholism, malnutrition, history of antibiotic or corticosteroid use, decrea...

Diabetes Self-Management - Hispanic Patients

has always been about the development of autonomy, equality, social justice and democracy" (Mezirow, 1999). The transformative app...

Discharge Instructions, Heart Patients

planning evaluation to those patients, conducted or overseen by a registered nurse, social worker or other appropriately qualified...

Patient Satisfaction As An Indication of Clinical Quality

Agency for Healthcare and Quality as "doing the right thing, at the right time, in the right way, for the right person-and having ...

Prostate Victims & Their Partners/Quality of Life

et al, 2007). Over the last several decades, clinicians have come to regard treatment decisions in terms of quality of life "ben...

Depression Era Foods

prices, too, were low, and in the Thirties Americans consumed more sugar per capita then they have done before or since... (Lovegr...

Medical Coders

Building on the work of William Farr, Jacques Bertillon, the chief statistician for the city of Paris, devised a revised classific...