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what is tantamount to a death sentence, because of the "uncertain definition of suicide in the context of a terminal illness" (Mar...

Crystalloids and colloids are coming into use for trauma cases where fluids are being used for resuscitation. This paper gives a g...

of revenues, and it is likely lower. Allowing 35 percent food cost, however, the cost of operations including labor should not ex...

after which he began drinking again. After this, the patient demonstrated a desire to poison himself, and this resulted in his ow...

Mr. Schiavo finally was allowed the right to have his wifes feeding tube removed, the right to allow her to die of lack of nutrien...

are licensed individuals who go through at least one year of formal education in addition to clinical instruction, and the focus o...

can be tricky. There are always hypochondriacs or the medically educated who do not necessarily agree with the doctors findings. P...

biochemistry. I recognized the wonder of chemistry, but what I failed to recognize at the time was the solid practice it gave me ...

In ten pages medical negligence is considered with such cases as 1957's Bolam v. Friern HMC and 1997's Bolitho v. Hackney HA refer...

authors isolated the following recurring elements, in order of their statistical appearance in the definitions [1]: Violence, forc...

to identify and to relate in terms of actual patient care. Ida Jean Orlando created a conceptual view of the nursing process whic...

provide the physician interface. Beyond these duties are the operational and administrative duties required in this type of facil...

much sugar remains in the blood and too little energy is transferred to other cells. The diabetic needs to take externally adminis...

routine activities necessary to their own care. The purpose is that with a nurses direction, encouragement and initial supervisio...

must have at least some knowledge of the topic of discussion beforehand, or the discussion can disintegrate into an exercise in "p...

environment. That open system "interacts with internal and external stressors and is in a state of constant change, moving toward...

evaluating information (including assumptions and evidence) related to the issue, considering alternatives ... and drawing conclus...

analysis. Making use of a sample of 100 patients, the test group is made up of 60 depressed patients with reflex sympathetic dystr...

Conroy and Nottoli (1999) report the case of Henry, an irascible octogenarian who easily was the most difficult patient in the ski...

2000). Even as recently as just a couple of decades ago, conditions such as cramps, pregnancy nausea and even labor pains were oft...

desire to increase revenue to allow further development and facilitate increased benefits to the users. The errors may not be as s...

The link between nurse caring and patient satisfaction has been reported numerous times. For instance, the AORN journal reported a...

Over twice as many people have been infected with HIV than was initially projected; over 42 million people have been infected sinc...

the elderly. The Nurse Practitioner announced in its July 2000 issue that reports of the AMAs petition had been received as...

caused by the illnesses the may then have a negative physiological backlash on the patient. For other condition it may be the ro...

in groups created by the reciprocal model and attention is given to both ideas and feelings (1990). The needs of the group members...

York found that, in the past, ambulance diversions were a seasonal event. However, more recent research finds that diversional sta...

McAndrew, 2006). With communication skills there are includes skills of listening as well as tact as essential to facilitate effec...

with mental illnesses may reach out to drugs or alcohol to ease the pain they are feeling. It becomes very difficult to separate t...

this condition. If the student does not have asthma, the student may feel motivated to help this population because of he/she rea...