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Family Nursing - Teen Suicide

apply to the many diverse factors related to teen suicide attempts and completions. Three of these objectives are: 1. Reduce fire...

Should Wal-Mart Extend Insurance Benefits To Same-Sex Partnerships; An Ethical Discussion

a to increase the level of healthcare that can be received and benefit both partners you may have been going without insurance, or...

Abstract for Article on Diabetes Screening

criterion for inclusion in the study as all children previously diagnosed with type 2 diabetes were excluded. Body mass index (B...

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...

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...

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...

Family in Med/Surg Nursing

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

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 ...

Workplace Safety, Health, and Disputes

rather a lack of system. All the staff who want a job done, such as records retrieved or a letter typing think it is the most impo...

Critical Modality of Humor

In three pages this research paper discusses how humor can be a modality that assists nurses in patient care as well as self care....

Aboriginal Community Needs Assessment

of Australian society. Racism is, in fact, one of the primary shapers of contemporary Australian society. In the nineteenth cent...

The Global Health Problems Posed to Asian Children by AIDS

women are five times more likely to be abandoned at the hospital (Neff-Smith, Spencer and Taval, 2001). The leading cause of aband...

Catastrophic Tsunami of 2004

be taken care of, and so, the economic effects were only temporary. The post-tsunami relief effort had included attention to commu...

Kolcaba and Holistic Care

reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...

Psychiatric Nursing Alternatives

they visited, and some tended to visit fairly frequently (Demling et al, 2002). Patients in general were very positive about thei...

Philadelphia and Hunger Issues

Philadelphia County in 1999 illustrates a preponderance of lower income/higher poverty rates than the attributed to the overall st...

Cancer Patients and Nursing

that is, whether it will spread (metastasize) and what symptoms that it is likely to cause (Cancer diagnosis, 2005). The term "sec...

Palliative Care and the Theory of Dorothea Orem

patient to re-establish the self-care capacity. Orems model defines a "self-care deficit" as when a patients condition interferes ...

Overview of Health Tourism Industry

host country both by increasing tourism, and by increasing the consumption of health and medical services" (WATIC, 2005). In...

Overview of Critical Care Nurse Practitioner

a specialized body of knowledge, skills and experience that enables these nurses to offer a high standard of care to critically il...

Dorothea Orem and Florence Nightingale on Nursing Theories, Beliefs, and Values

prepared for this role" (McKenna, 1997, p. 87). Perhaps most significant of all was Florence Nightingales belief that env...

Arterial Blood Pressure, Arteriosclerosis, and Hypertension

of atherosclerosis, and the progression of correlated hypertension and myocardial dysfunction (Katz, 1990). The pursuit of conti...

Health Brochure for Women Approaching 40

student can approach this task in the following manner WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW Aging can bring about some very welcome changes, bu...

Public School Safety, Health, and Nutrition

a sense that the children are cognizant of weight issues. The Principal, Dr. Meyer claims that the parents at this school have b...

Contemporary Appalachia, Transportation Challenges, and Mental Health

Transportation in Appalachia presents problems both in terms of the public and private variety. In summary, public transportation ...

A Critique of Two Ariticles Pertaining to Cardiac Step Down Units

it is discovered that her death was called by a massive pulmonary embolism. Two years later, her husband files suit against the n...

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...