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(Maier-Lorentz, 2008). Male doctors, for instance, may not be allowed to touch female Arab patients in certain parts of the body a...

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...

explained the process further and made it clear that he would perform the catheterization, the man approved. As this indicates, fr...

and typically occurs by the time a person reaches their 70s. In the U.S., roughly 1.5 million fractures are caused by osteoporosis...

formalist-structuralist critics have evaded the issue of sexual identity entirely or dismissed it as irrelevant and subjective" (S...

had pushed through legislation mandating mandatory medical error reporting (Hosford, 2008). Additionally, and perhaps more importa...

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

emotional (limbic) memories are affected, and the last group of memories to be affected as the "motor or more reptilian memories,"...

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

there is very little information about predisposes people to these episodes (Swann, 2006). Therefore, for the most part, nursing a...

illnesses, for example, often encounters problems in convincing their insurance provider to provide the appropriate reimbursement ...

In six pages this paper examines nursing care from the perspectives of nurses and patients as reported by this Australian study. ...

as solid political material. As a result, there are handfuls of women politicians on the national level, perhaps a few more women ...

"many emotional, medical, and practical needs. These needs change over time, depending on the trajectory of...

carcinoma in situ (DCIS). This is also known as "intraductal carcinoma or non-invasive breast cancer" (Breast Cancer, 2004; p. PG...

charted component of my daily patient interaction. However, to remind myself of the other responsibilities during busy per...

ensuring that a significant proportion of stroke victims survive and retain their independence. This is important not only from th...

moment to moment as the changing patterns of shifting perspectives weave the fabric of life through the human-universe interconnec...

between cases at the time of diagnosis (Newmark and Anhalt, 2007). Type 1 diabetes is typically due to a "lack of insulin producti...

influences can be broken down into political, economic, social and technological. Political influences are one of the most importa...

affect patient outcomes (Finley, 2004). The degree to which Mr. Smith will be affected by the stroke, and, indeed, his very survi...

balance these too opposing criteria. Empowering care aids the geriatric patients in overcoming learned helplessness, as they take ...

however. This investigation is concerned more with the dynamics between payers, providers and consumers. Has government healthcar...

a total of more than $4,000 for every citizen of the country (Grumbach and Bodenheimer, 1994). Plagued by overspending for years,...

Rights The concept of human rights have been a part of discussions on ethics and the ethical treatment of many different populati...

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

is wheelchair bound, but nevertheless cooks for herself and shops for herself in a nearby grocery store, using her motorized wheel...

Erie, Pennsylvania (Minnis, 2002). As is the case here, the aggregate for which this tool was developed is that of persons over t...

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

In two pages an article featured in a nursing journal is reviewed that considers the correlation between patient health care quali...