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Public Policy Issues as State and Local Levels

have stayed essentially the same for decades and that single mothers are most often poverty-stricken. Social Welfare programs, ...

Self Care Model of Dorothea Orem

Today, the theories of Orem, Roy, Neuman, Rogers, King, and others seem to be more popular than older theories such as those of Fl...

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...

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...

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 ...

Advanced Nursing Practice Philosophy

therapeutic manner (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003). This relationship may refer to a single individual, or the "person" may be a sma...

Morality, Politics, and Ecology

substances that will remain in the soil for many future decades. Current EPA findings indicate that even the most sophisticated o...

Causes and Conditions of Homelessness

money to pay for food, rent, and other basic necessities. Today, more Americans than ever have jobs," but still "a growing number ...

A Management and Evaluation Aggregate Program Proposal

percent of Erie Countys population. Overall, 90.9 percent of the total population is white. The most commonly reported nat...

Controls in Australian and English Tort Law

actionable and for the bringing of cases to be controlled. We may also argue that they also serve a purpose in restricting and cre...

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....

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...

Arterial Blood Pressure, Arteriosclerosis, and Hypertension

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

Kolcaba and Holistic Care

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

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...

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...

Aboriginal Community Needs Assessment

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

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...

3 Article Reviews on Children's Health

a significant clustering of fast food restaurants within a 1.5 mile radius when compared to other non down town areas. The researc...

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 ...

Male Health and Understanding Through Biomedical, Psychological, and Sociological Disciplines

is important to consider how the incidence of heart disease can be attributed to a combination of genetics and ones own personal p...

Utilizing Electronic Patient Records Systems

pilot studies 1. Introduction The potential benefits of technology in the health industry are enormous. In the past the use ...

Updated Gannt Chart Stop Smoking

The positive health benefits of quitting begin within minutes of the last smoke. The positive health outcome continue each year, s...

Health Outcomes in the Inner Cities

in 2001 (Griggs and Bazie, 2002). The median household income dropped across the board, including all racial-ethnic groups with t...