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Drugs for First-Aid

This essay describes five medications that a healthcare practitioner might choose to meet first-aid needs as a castaway on a deser...

Medications

In a paper of three pages, the author reflects on questions about different types of medications. The author answers questions ab...

Pharmaceutical Companies and Their Moral Obligation

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at the moral obligations of pharmaceutical companies. Philosophical arguments are made t...

Patient Safety and Human Factors

This research paper pertains to nursing errors that threaten patient safety, such as medication errors. Five pages in length, five...

Alesse/Feminist Critique of Ad

beautiful, oriental; the incredibly smart, but beautiful, brunette; the strong, but beautiful, black woman; and, of course, the gl...

Violating Nursing Protocol

illustrates how she ignored the potential for causing harm when she increased the patients drugs; only after the medication had be...

Psychiatric Drugs

is excreted from the body. By the time the drug goes through membranes and organs, less than 100 percent of the drug is available ...

The Thao Case/Medication Error

prohibited from working over 12 hours in a 24-hour period or more than 60 hours per week for 2 years ("Criminal case," 2007). Th...

Psychopharmacology and GAD

anxiety disorder is prevalent in our society. It is important for all clinicians to have a firm grasp on this disorder as well as ...

Basic Principles of Medication Administration

order must be provided and understood in order to ensure that proper administration occurs. Nurses must be aware of the factors im...

A Qualitative Assessment of Medication Errors

quantitative aspect of the research by Koppel et al. provides a very different approach to understanding the issue. The quantitat...

Critique of Bohomol, Ramos and D'Innocenzo (2009)

of a research article is "an impersonal evaluation of the strengths and limitations of the research being reviewed" (Coughlan, Cro...

Overview of Medication Errors

the University of California at San Diego, researchers analyzed over 62 million death certificates for the years 1979 through 2006...

Medication Communication/Concept Analysis using Orem's Theory

between a patient and a doctor in a community practice setting" (Manias, 2010, p. 934). However, this scenario is no longer the mo...

Two Article Summaries

effectiveness of a computer-based access that informed primary care physicians of all prescriptions dispensed to specific patients...

Computer Tools and Inappropriate Prescribing for the Elderly

The incidence of inappropriate medication prescriptions issued to elderly individuals is estimated to be between 12 and 40 percent...

Pharmacological Overview of Asthma

the attack from happening at all. This can be of immense relief to those accustomed to suffering from debilitating asthma attacks,...

Reducing Medical Errors

focuses on methods to reduce errors and also improve the safety will focus on individual nursing skills and adherence to protocols...

Two Types of Healthcare Information Systems

opportunity to lower costs, decrease errors and promote increased productivity. The following paper examines two types of healthca...

Medications and Bipolar Disorder

sleep problems, fatigue, and problems concentrating, among others (Ketter and Wang, 2010). Diagnosing bipolar disorder accuratel...

Overview of Adolescent Depression

of morbidity and mortality and depression among youth has become increasing prevalent. Adolescent depression has been shown to gen...

Workplace Issues And The ADA

either with or without reasonable accommodations" (Bloom et al, 2009), there is no question Karina is considered disabled and can ...

Nonadherence to Medical Instructions: Walker and Avant

issue via conceptual analysis, inasmuch as Walker and Avant provide specific steps that allow one to wholly define the ambiguous a...

Lung Cancer in Men and Pain Management Through Narcotics

the 5 year mark after diagnosis (Kreamer, 2003). Tobacco use is the leading risk factor in regards to developing lung cancer and 8...

Oppositing to Medicating Children with ADD or ADHD

with ADHD/ADD has only a very limited effectiveness, and the side effects and risks associated with it are simply too great. The ...

An Analysis of Medication Errors

it can be catastrophic. Indeed, in England and Wales recent medication errors have resulted in thirty-seven deaths (Nursing Stand...

Treatment of Gestational Diabetes

being-in-the-world" (Evans and OBrien, 2005, p. 68). Each woman who received an invitation letter and showed interesting in partic...

Athletics, Self Esteem, and Drugs

drugs will enhance performance while others will deteriorate performance. Performance-enhancing drugs have been used by athletes i...

Peripheral Blood Vessels and the Effects of Diabetes

or where the body produces insulin, but for some reason the insulin does not do as it was intended, meaning the body can not metab...

Motivational Interviewing for Addicts

be an effective model with substance abuse. 2. Controversy using medication in recovery treatment Until the relatively recent pa...