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by persistent discomfort with ones sex" (Meyenburg, 1999, p. 305). This gender identification with the opposite sex typically com...

are told what they should do by their physicians. For example, if a patient visits a doctor and due to age parameters, he or she w...

American vernacular, the diet is one that has characterized the South and its inhabitants for generations. With a few extraordina...

is not an expectation based on fact or knowledge, it is based on hope. 2. Clinicians personal and professional values Personal ...

Visiting Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Tulsa. Linda W. Cardillo is a doctoral student in the School of...

Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Tulsa. Linda W. Cardillo is a doctoral student in the School of Journali...

culturally competent care. Well examine what the literature has to say about such standards and, with this background, and an unde...

differences between cultures consist of variation in their main pattern in terms of these five dimensions and that these differenc...

In two pages cardiovascular disease and the complications it represents for patients suffering from Type II diabetes are discussed...

to the assignment prompt and call the client "Mr. Fox" or "Michael," if the student is so inclined. Walking is highly recommende...

at any given time. More than a decade ago, Bigelow and Arndt (1995) suspected value in TQM in the hospital setting but wrote, "Th...

proximity and/or behavior man has imposed upon his own species. Social norms play an integral role in both setting and meeting th...

protocol. Rosenberg et al (2005) and Larson et al (2006) detail the pursuit toward getting the elderly population in step with be...

an overview of the issues that surround massage and the literature that support the fact that it is an effective approach in the t...

classify medical errors (Pace et al., 2005). In fact, there are taxonomies to classify errors but they are not standardized (Pace ...

language competency. The results of this study confirmed that the BEST oral interview can be used successfully within the context ...

and Blood Institute, 2007). Zardi and colleagues (2008) referred to this procedure as the "gold standard" (p. 48) for assessing th...

patient, the attending nurse is seldom in the room at the same time. The attending physician may refer the patient to a cardiologi...

by Johansson, Dahlstrom and Brostrom (2006), they found 10 studies that examine4d the relationship between depression in HF patien...

to take expensive prescription medications as prescribed. This acerbates medical conditions and results in increases in acuity lev...

life in prison for patient death (Jacko & Sears, 2003). HIPAA is comprised of five major titles that are applicable to each provi...

movement disorders, such as Parkinsons and dystonia. This procedure was initially developed in 1987 in France (Song, 2006). This a...

to base their arguments on more spiritual and ethereal ground, such as the idea that a persons life ends when God chooses to end i...

in place for some time, and none of the fears surrounding it have ever materialized (Seale, 2006). Research shows that 171 people ...

cancer affects both the man and his life partner. In most cases, study designs addressing quality of life issues for prostate canc...

points out, medicalization is a process that defines a problem in terms of the practitioners perspective and cultural biases, rath...

the patient die (1975). Consider the case of a patient with terminal throat cancer, who is in terrible pain which cannot successfu...

of four (Bernstein, 2000). Its use also reduces hospitalizations by 59 percent and yields a benefit to cost ratio of seven to one,...

Policy Institute found that only 28 percent of the hospital chief quality officers surveyed felt that patient satisfaction with th...

Patient adherence to a prescribed chemotherapy is particularly crucial to the goal of positive patient outcomes in regards to trea...