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Smoking Cigarettes

on advertising campaigns promoting cigarettes. Smoking was depicted as sophisticated and adult, and considered a normal part of ev...

Domestic Violence and Community Health Nursing

domestic violence is to, first of all, screen for domestic violence with all injured patients. When screening for abuse, Flitcraft...

Long Term Care Environments and Nursing Care Plans

their wishes for the patients care. Every nursing home resident has a right to such a plan by law (Stern), and it does not only p...

Patient Care, Team Approaches, Evaluations, and the Process of Nursing

call for compliance with standardized procedures, health codes, and licensing requirements, all of which have been initiated to su...

Political Issue of Second Hand Tobacco Smoke

detrimental health. What drives the issue is politics and money and a sense that people are entitled to whatever they want. No...

CRT Monitors, Effects, and Diseases

In seven pages this report considers the effects of excessive computer use with such health issues as electromagnetic radiation, b...

Chlamydia Treatment and Prevention and the Role of Public Health Nurses

In five pages this illness is examined in terms of the role played by the public health nurse regarding issues of treatment and pr...

National Health Service and British Policy

In five pages this paper considers such issues as access, quality, and cost as it relates to the British National Health Service p...

Exercise and Older Adults

This paper pertains to the issue of exercise and how it affects older adults' health. Three pages in length, three sources are cit...

TUNISIA, ECONOMICS AND HEALTHCARE

Focuses on Tunisia, its economic health and healthcare issues. There are 5 sources listed in the bibliography of this 4-page paper...

Adolescent with Fatigue, A Case Study

This paper analyzes the care prevailed for Lucy, an adolescent college student who is diabetic and complaining of fatigue. Diagnos...

Resource Guide for South and West Sides of Chicago

This 3 page paper gives an example of a resource guide for services in the west and south side of Chicago. This paper includes org...

Ethical Considerations

This paper pertains to ethical issues that have to do with public health programs. Three pages in length, three sources are cited....

Health Promotion, Nutrition and Behavior

This research paper pertains to issues associated with health behavior theories. Six pages in length, seven sources are cited. ...

Article Review on Skin Care

In a paper of three pages, the author reflects on an article entitled: Providing Patients with Information on Caring for Skin. T...

Concept Mapping Versus Care Plans/A Proposed Study

the fever? Was it related to an infection in the surgical wound? Was the patient developing atelectasis and pneumonia? Or, was the...

Implementing Care Following Leininger’s Theory

meals to all Orthodox Jewish patients should be investigated by hospital administrators if they are not already in place. Furtherm...

Medicalization

the degree to which homosexuality may be a medical condition. The medical profession has since moved on from this approach and the...

Article Critique/Compliance with Hand Hygiene Guidelines

a concise, but thorough description of the study that certainly will engage the interest of any healthcare professional researchin...

Managed Care, HMOs & Evolution over Last Decade

the rate of such hospital mergers. One of these trends was the "phenomenon of Columbia/HCA," a for-profit hospital system that man...

The Need For Consistent And Predictable Care

birth, it is critical to interact with the infant, to touch and cuddle and talk with the infant, to provide a safe and nurturing e...

Public Health Aspects of Food Safety

and as such, material has been surprisingly difficult to find. Repeated searches using parameters such as "food borne illness + pu...

Peplau and Orem/Core Concepts

begins with "orientation," which is a period in which the nurse and the patient become acquainted. The relationship then proceeds ...

Family in Med/Surg Nursing

relationship or marriage (Darling, 2005). For example, a homosexual man suffering from HIV-related illness and receiving the inten...

The Dangers Of Smoking

to break. To bring the point home, half a million people die each year from cigarette-related causes (Whelan, 1994, p. 77), with ...

Impact Of Chronic Illness On The Elderly And Families

medications or they could be a sign of depression (Turner and Kelly, 2000). Turner and Kelly (2000) state strongly that it is e...

Ostomy Wounds

diversion stoma (urostomy) allows urine to be passed through the stoma rather than the urethra (Kirkwood 20). Sometime stomas are ...

Overcrowding in Prisons

fewer than 200,000 inmates (Golembeski and Fullilove, 2005). The Washington Post reported on December 1, 2006 that the U.S. prison...

Pressure Ulcers/Changing Care

change and its rationale (which was based on the results of empirical research), implemented the change and then "supported the c...