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Essays 421 - 450
issues difficult to address, in that there is often an interchange of duties as a means by which to compensate for the sometimes-i...
Private organizations designed primarily for drug and alcohol treatment rarely if ever will accept any patient who does not have i...
straight ahead and never acknowledged him, as women all about him were flirting and trying to get his attention. Naturally, it wa...
not a socially accepted occurrence. In America, contempt and disrespect stem from the aspect of aging against ones will, with peo...
report the trouble. Sometimes they have no family or nobody to report the abuse to. Many nursing homes have no background check ...
their mental capacity often fades due to dementia, or Alzheimers, or a host of other maladies that create this state where there i...
in the heart and nervous system, or in some cases, death (WHO, 1996). While health promotion relating to STDs may be a global mis...
This is significant to nursing because nurses have to learn to insert and remove the catheter from the patient which is sometimes ...
are, of course, special considerations which go into treating the elderly. We know, for example, that the elderly often experienc...
by Actor Network Theory (ANT), therefore, it becomes not only the technical issue of using and discarding information as well as i...
staying alive. As global warming continues, it influences the sea level; as the waters continue to rise, they will ultimately "di...
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to adulthood or general maturation processes. In an institutionalised environment, this can be a difficult transition, yet in a co...
of employment at the plant instead of clear skies. The issue for shareholders, the board and executives, at lest is bottom line p...
his ideal weight yet less than that which takes his BMI past the boundary for obesity (Fontanarosa, 1998). Either condition is a ...
Medical Center, 2002). It is estimated that 13 to 18 million adults suffer from incontinence at some time or other (Mercy Medical...
to be significantly more susceptible to the detrimental affects than others. Such locales as New Zealand appear to be on a direct...
there was a problem of infections in long-term care facilities and in hospitals (Dimond, 1994). These are called nosocomial infect...
they were raised in an era of conservation and sacrifice (the 1940s and 1950s) and believe they should be able to live through it ...
to examine whether womens social roles mediate the impact of heart surgery on their psychological well-being" (Plach and Heidrich,...
her mater grandmother remained a homemaker. This traditional family format was also reflected in her paternal grandparents in whic...
life as is possible for an 80-year-old with her various health conditions. What is Polypharmacy? McCloskey (2002) quotes Chest...
quality of a patients life, (4) implementing managed care policies that threaten quality of care, and (5) working with unethical/i...
pets do make a difference has spawned a variety of organizations eager to further research and create service programs involving a...
carpet in two rooms; wet walls; wet ceilings. The long-term results for some residents have included buckled walls and buckled, cr...
"Demographers predict that the numbers of elderly people will double in the next 30 years" (pp. 3). As the population of America ...
is still very much on the burner as far as an issue we want to see addressed before we recess" (Landa, 2001; p. 8)....
out to those Americans disabled by ignorance or handicapped by prejudice and teach them a better way" (Bush, 1993, p. 35). Since ...
some measures and assessments does not mean that it gains no attention at all, however. The World Health Organization (WHO) repor...
of many elderly patients. The failure of the policy to realise real benefits was seen in many areas. This is not to say...