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Drug Therapy-Statins

bodies to produce an excessive amount of cholesterol (Statins safe, 2004). Left untreated, this condition is associated with havin...

A Case Study to Demonstrate Influences on the Delivery of Mental Healthcare

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

Prosthetic Knee Prototype for Pediatric Patients

phases of gait, the kinematics of the anatomical knee and the specific issues for pediatric prosthetic knee users, relates some of...

Period and its Impact on the Incidence of Deep Wound Infection in Diabetic Individuals Undergoing Open Heart Surgery

Researchers have identified nutrition as a significant factor in wound healing. In fact, it has been argued that nutritional elem...

Health Care Communication

patient (Seidel, 2004). This author also states that effective communication is something that can and must be learned (Seidel, 2...

The Importance of Hope in Palliative Care

are fatigued often have trouble dealing successfully with their illness. In this article Benzein and Berg note that "Hope, hopeles...

Girl, Interrupted And Borderline Personality

the DSM IV-TR (Therapydoc, 2007). The next one is due sometimes in 2012 (Therapydoc, 2007). It will no doubt change etiologies, di...

Controlling Catheter-Related Infections in Hemodialysis Patients

utilized a taurolidine and citrate solution to eliminate the catheter biofilm which is associated with infection. Taurolidine was...

Ethical Issues/Menopausal Patient

this patient include giving the patient advice and treatment that will improve her overall health and life satisfaction. To sugges...

Diabetes in Adolescence

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

Health Care Services Case Study

healthcare services to senior citizens, which is an at-risk population in this country. One helping approach for people with dis...

Confidentiality/ANA Ethics & New York State Law

This ANA Code also specifically includes the possibility that "inappropriate disclosure" can occur by using "identifiable patient ...

Patient Education and Compliance: Review of the Literature and Proposal for Black Male Diabetics Ages 40 through 60

Study participants ranged from 20 to 79 years and noted that the mere exchange of information is not enough to accomplish the desi...

Applying Utilitarianism to an Ethical Decision

for a long period of time. It may be noted that the problem was caused by steroid use when jerry was in his 20s, and the dangers w...

Basic Rights in Health Care

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...

Gender Identity Patient Disorder Diagnosis, Treatment, and the Film Boys Don’t Cry

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

Powerlessness and Coronary Heart Disease, A Concept Analysis

perception of powerlessness is a condition that can affects virtually all individuals at some point in their lives (Dryer, 2006). ...

Diabetic Ketoacidosis, A Case Study

among the classic symptoms of diabetic ketoacidosis. The pathophysiology of these symptoms results from the buildup in ketones due...

Case Study, Acute Renal Failure

abnormal (Yadkin, 2011). The ratio between the BUN reading and creatinine should not be greater than 20:1 or less than 10:1 and th...

Traumatic Brain Injury, Remediation

to any injury to the head that impairs subsequent brain functioning. While mild TBI can appear to have left the individual unimpai...

Internet CBT for OCD

disorder that is characterized by obsessions, i.e., thoughts, and/or compulsions, acts that must be done. The acts become rituals....

CHF Guidelines and Readmission Rates

the highest readmission rates for congestive heart failure (CHF), as well as other conditions (DeFelice, et al, 2010). Initially, ...

Quantitative Article Review

use of continuing education to improve patient care (Sterman, Gauker & Krieger, 2003). Effects of nursing rounds, call light use, ...

Cultural Influences on Attitudes to Schizophrenia

have on patient outcomes. It was found patients from the Mexican American families, where there was a lower level of EE were also ...

Quality Improvement Tools Healthcare

or the frequency level of falls in terms of overall patient numbers. For quality improvement to take place it is necessary not onl...

Economic Implications of Different Ventilation Choices for COPD Patients

beneficial or having no impact, negative or positive on most patients outcomes (Agarwal et al, 2009; Masip et al, 2005). The ben...

Protecting Patients Privacy

The writer looks at the way a healthcare organizations protect their patients data. The writer looks at processes which are in pl...

Review of Achievements in the Development and Implementation of Nursing Program to Reduce Falls

The writer reviews an intervention program designed by the student to assess and reduce risks with the aim of preventing falls in ...

Articles for Assessing Hazards increase Fall Risk for Elederly Community Based Patients

The paper is written as an annotated bibliography looking at research on environmental factors which may impact on fall rates for...