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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...

Issues Concerning Prescribed Drugs

physical. And, as stated, taken as directed, there is very low risk of negative side effects of any kind. 3. Anti-psychotics As ...

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...

Treatment Alternatives for CHF Besides Surgery

performed are not always that promising. To further complicate the success of SVR the age-old problem of surgery-related depressi...

The Impact of Adult ADD/ADHD on Education

diagnosis of ADD is an extremely complex process, which is complicated by the fact that the symptoms are very similar to other emo...

Health Care Industry and Medication Errors

potential for depression. It stands to reason, therefore, that if nurses in critical care units are experiencing higher rates of ...

Treatment and Adolescent Depression

2006). Marcotte and colleagues (2002) note that a great deal of progress has been made in this field over the last two decades but...

Sppech Pathology and ADHD

Center for Health Statistics, approximately 6.7% of children aged 5 to 17 were reported to have ADHD in 1997-2000" (Attention Defi...

Overview of Antidepressant Escitalopram

of depression. BACKGROUND Escitalopram is an oral drug which is intended to be used for the treatment of depression and generali...

Overview of Type Two Diabetes Mellitus

This overview of diabetes mellitus, type two, defines the disease, discusses the importance of diet and exercise and presents a de...

JNC 7 Report: Hypertension Guidelines

This research paper presents a synthesis of hypertensive staging definitions and medication guidelines given in Seventh Report of ...

Self-Medication and Another Model

This paper focuses on a video case study of a young woman who is an alcoholic and drug addict. The paper describes what was observ...

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...

Medications

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

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...

Issues Concerning Childhood Depression

the childs life. Children are not simply adults in miniature, as their bodies and organ function are in a continual state of deve...

Somatoform Disorders and DSM-V

one-third of patients with major depression experience remission using the first medication prescribed. This leads the doctor will...

Vitamin D Supplementation and a Qualitative Study

In a paper of five pages, the author reflects on the value of vitamin D therapy presented in case series study. This study shows ...

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...

Self-Medication in Schizophrenics

genes tends to be normalized (Leonard, Mexal, & Freedman, 2007). Likewise, such a genetic phenomenon might explain the tendency ...

Motivational Interviewing for Addicts

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

Medication Errors

in control of the medication. Worse, not all medication errors are reported. If the wrong medication has reached the patient, the...

Reducing Medical Errors

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

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,...

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...

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 ...

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...