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The Medicine of the Ancient Greeks

to promote schools, schools where medical pursuits were blended with the ecclesiastical (Draper, 1992). These schools would ultima...

Terminal Condition and Informing Patients 2

Acquiescing to the constraints imposed by organizational and professional structure does not mean that the nurse has no alternativ...

Terminal Conditions and Informing Patients

patient, but it could serve to avoid having the same thing happen again in the future. Other Facts, Options and Consequences ...

St. Louis Medical Center, Magnet Status Executive Summary

This paper offers an executive summary regarding the Magnet status report of the Saint Louis Medical Center. Four pages in length,...

Case STudy Hospital Readmissions

Hospital readmissions of patients is upsetting to patients and families, especially when that readmission occurs within 30 days of...

Cross Functional Counseling and Factors That Are Effective

(Schrag, 1995; Hunt, Soto, Maier & Doering, 2003). Nelson (2002) takes this one step further by pointing to a body of resea...

Stem Cells Research Use and Business Ethics

cells under specific condition, hence their presence in embryos and foetuses, they develop into whatever cells are required for th...

Separating Fact from Fiction in an Overview of Hypnosis

their brains even in the fully awake conscious state of mind (Choudhury 2004). In fact, many have agreed that as much as seven-eig...

The Medical Argument for Legalized Marijuana

to reduce pain remains controversial. A 2001 meta-analysis of 39 clinical studies found that marijuanas was no more effective in...

Pros and Cons of Medical Malpractice Suit Capping

used quite frequently by supporters of caps are that todays medical liability has meant skyrocketing rates for medical malpractice...

Impact of Stress on Diabetes

and Baron Josef von Mering removed the pancreas of a dog in 1889 to see if it were an essential organ. Their early attempts to fe...

Two Journal Articles on Colic

points out possible remedies, such as swaddling and dillwater, which the health care professional could suggest to the parent....

History of U.S. Sexual Harassment Legislation

simple discrimination against women (Wyatt, Background, 2000). One of the bases of their arguments was that the women harassed wer...

Alzheimer's Disease and its Sociological and Medical Impacts

results in the slow loss of memory, personality, and eventually all cognitive function (Lemonick and Park-Mankato, 2001). Scienti...

Selective Abortions and Medical Ethics

be ethical, considering that there is still a high degree of false positives. Still, the argument is, at least theoretically, that...

Medical Marijuana Debate

This paper presents an argument in favor of medical marijuana. The writer discusses the positions in this debate, both pro and con...

INCIDENT ANALYSIS OF A DOS

Demonstrates what needs to happen in response to a Denial of Service (DOS) on a fictitious medical practice. There are 2 sources l...

The States, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act

This 7 page paper gives an overview of how the ACA changes things in the medical field and how the states reacted as far as Medica...

A Review of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

thought which suggests that if a patient doesnt believe in it, it wont work, so perhaps Lias parents were right.) There was als...

Assessment of a Woman with Menopause Case Study

the nGMS as an assessment instrument. This computer program provides a check list that the nurse can use to cover all pertinent in...

An Analysis of an Article on a Cardiovascular Single Unit Stay Program

Roberts and Traylor (2004) may be one that the students nursing unit might want to consider. In presenting this information to a...

Hospital Patient Safety

for patient safety identified these specific goals. For obvious reasons, these are copied directly from the Commissions Web page. ...

EMTALA and Illegal Aliens

to 20 minutes, an increase of 150 percent but at least 25 percent of these heart patients actually waited at least 50 minutes (Kro...

Documentation Errors and Incorrect Abbreviations in Medical Documentation

may matter (Arevalo, 2007). At the least, they force people to stop what theyre doing to track down someone who can clarify the ab...

THE LEGALITY OF RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AND MEDICAL CARE

beliefs by refraining from eating," the court didnt agree. The court held that even if the children were mature enough to exercise...

Perfusionists

perfusionist education.) The current certification process, which is overseen by the American Board of Cardiovascular Perfusion ...

How Regulatory Agencies have Improved Outcomes

(Chen et al, 2003). Accreditation has been identified as a measure of quality, but whether this results in measurable difference...

Emerging Standards of Culturally Competent Care

to the development of military medicine" (Tripler Army Medical Center, 2008). It had 450 beds at the start of WWII, then expanded ...

Hoshin Planning Specific to Mortality Rates for Medical Conditions

screenings, and could be admitted to hospitals for rather routine reasons. Today, many individuals are quite ill when they finall...

The Hmong in America: Disease and Health Care

2005). It plunged her into a persistent vegetative state and she had lived life in that state for many years (Underwood, Adler & P...