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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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Complementary Medicine and Psychology

impact (Kinrys, Coleman and Rothstein, 2009). Passionflower is another plant that has been used since ancient time because of its...

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...

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...

Overview of Medication Errors

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

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...

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 ...

Antipsychotic Drugs and Autism

psychotropic medications in psychology, in general, and with autism, in particular. This discussion will include movements in psyc...

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...

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...

Getting the Teenage Diabetic Patient to Comply

One of the main problems with teenage diabetes patients is getting the patient to comply with the diet and medication regimen. Thi...

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...

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...

Errors in Medication and Nursing Prevention

for the precise coding of medication in order to avoid the errors listed above (Woods and Doan-Johnson, 2002). Cohen, Robinson and...

3 Research Studies' Literature Review

in all. General weaknesses : The sample population all came from the same hospital, which may limited the applicability of the f...

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...

Contemporary World and Chinese Medicine

Chinese medical traditions are the focus of this paper consisting of six pages and its effects when combined with Western medicine...

Maternally Assessing a Pregnant Woman

This paper consisting of five pages considers such relevant pregnancy issues as breastfeeding, expectations, medications, physical...

ADHD and Behavior Therapy

In five pages treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder through behavior therapy and its benefits are discussed in ter...

Medical Supply Withholding and Globalization

entire world would be better off and the people who suffer in such countries would of course be helped. But while that position s...

Mental Disorders and Medical Concerns

In fourteen pages this paper examines depression, attention deficit, and various types of mental disorders and how to deal with th...

Information Technology and Automated Medication Dispensing

In a paper consisting of seven pages the system of automated medication dispensing in a hospital setting is examined in terms of i...

An Introduction to Attention Deficit Disorder

In five pages this paper provides an outline of ADD that includes symptoms, causes, diagnostic approaches and tests, treatments, m...

Diagnosis and Treatment of Dysthymia

In twelve pages dysthymia is discussed in terms of its symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment alternatives with various medications an...