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Essays 1951 - 1980

Deep Wound Infection and Blood Glucose Levels: A Proposed Study

infections can, of course, relate to a number of factors. The type of care needed can vary both according to the type of wound an...

Quality of Life with AIDS

system, decreasing the natural defenses that allow the body to fight off infections and diseases (Etiology, 2008). As this suggest...

Problem of Uninsured Patients and New York's Metropolitan Hospital Center Operations

respected academically and is in the business of training future health care providers as it serves the local community. All "att...

Uninsured Issues for Metropolitan Hospital Center of New York II

continues to battle against the ongoing nursing shortage. Today, the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that ...

Paternalism or Autonomy and the Hippocratic Oath

God" (Hippocratic Oath, 2001). It seems to me that the wording leads the young physician directly into the trap he hopes to avoid...

Hand Washing and the Care of Patients

preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...

Practical Nursing Theory Application

care model is highly useful with the elderly and those recovering from surgery or illness. Self care is not an issue that enters ...

Reaction to Conversation Language And Possibilities A Postmodern Approach To Therapy by Harlene Andersen

followers must abide by the same doctrines. Post-modernisms discursive system was a reaction to and critique of modernism, with p...

Frequency of Hemodialysis

2% were on home hemodialysis (Freitas, 2002, 167). There are many chronic problems associated with hemodialysis including hyper...

Correcting Flawed Surgery Sites and Wrong Site Amputations

hospitals are not required to report mistakes that have been made to any sort of overseeing agency (Inskeep and Neighmond, 2004). ...

Patient Scenario on Stroke Examination

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

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...

Patient Service Improvements of NPs

and unequivocally made significant strides" within their specialty over the last two decades (Geiss and Cavaliere, 2003, p. 577). ...

An Article on a Study of PICCs Critiqued

indicated as an advantage of PICCs can be initiated at the bedside by a registered nurse, which avoid the need for general anesthe...

Price Setting Case Study for Bair Hugger Device

and needs to be carefully monitored, and the water filled blankets may be effective if used above and below the patient by they ar...

Overview of the Evaluation and Quality Improvement Program by the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards

of standards with sets of criteria that must achieved. Standards related to information management span the operations of the orga...

Senior Citizen Mental Illness Workplace Management and Prevention of Violence

to nonadherence to medication in the mentally ill elderly is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connot...

Literature Review of Incidences of Septic Shock and Sepsis in ICU Patients

result in septic shock. Of that 200,000, approximately half result in death due to the onset of sepsis and the subsequent septic ...

Outpatient Surgery and Risk

(Outpatient Surgical Centers, 2005). Surgeons generally are not part of the staff, but the centers employ all other positions req...

Self Administered Medications and Medication Aides

2005). However, the employer of these aides will be responsible for ensuring that systems are in place in regards to proper manage...

Asthma Survey Results

this may not improve sleep quality (Mulcahy, 2004). One study has indicated that treatment with melatonin may aid sleep (Barry, 20...

Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Images of Darkness and Light

with the world of tradition, the world of civilization. Huddled within the womb-like interior of the Congo, he retreats ever furth...

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...

Toxicity and Drug Absorption Impacts and Enzymatic Polymorphism

natural selection and the "accumulated mutations, deletions, duplications, and other changes" incurred by CYP families, they now a...

Acquired Brain Injury Patients and PT

every one-thousand children. Some forty-one thousand children aged five to fourteen in the U.S. alone are inflicted with this con...

Mentally Challenged Individuals and Contract Law

stories are legendary about people who receive their tattoos under the influence. The problem is that with mentally challenged i...

Stroke Patient and Increases in Urinary Tract Infections

third of women with urinary tract infection will experience a recurrence during the following year, with recurrence being most com...

Patients and Diabetes

of condition in terms of importance due the impact on lifestyle and ability to result in death is not treated correctly (King et a...

Hispanics and Diabetes Management

Have you had any experience in helping a friend or family member manage diabetes? The patient replied that she was not aware of...

Right to Die Defense

and the bitterness on both sides of that unfortunate incident have brought the debate about the right-to-die to the fore. Ironi...