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absence of disease and infirmity" ("Definitions of Health and Fitness," 2006). Health promotion, on the other hand, " is the combi...
ventilation. This included placing hip pads with egg crate foam under the patients iliac crest to prevent hyperextension of the lo...
much closer look at the unwise choice to allow HIV-positive nurses to continue their practice. Britain provides statistics that i...
which means that the homeless population in Vancouver encompasses roughly 1800 people (The Americas, 2004). They are virtually all...
p. 1). Multi-infarct dementia (MID) is caused by a series of strokes, which are frequently small (MID, n.d.). Patients with MID ...
change, understand the reasons for this change and hare a vision of the future" (Gokenbach, 2003, p. 8). The catch is that these g...
take to the streets rather than cope with abuse, violence or parental drug addiction. Also, as indicated above in regards to alcoh...
after the exposure to the initiating traumatic event (Stein, 2002). If PTSD-like symptoms become evidence and are intense prior to...
19th and early 20th centuries. Hughes and Romeo (1999) question the usefulness of education that does not address the growing div...
US shortage has caused many healthcare institutions to look for nurses outside their countrys borders and many nurses are leaving ...
individual, this woman does reflect on the past and has some regrets, but some optimistic comments are made as well. In evaluat...
While these definitions are extremely similar, a differences in emphasis can reflect a differing philosophical stance. The manner ...
lives, especially the course of their daily professional lives. We tend to get stuck in ruts where we rely on the same patterns an...
disagree with his wife could disrupt their marital relationship at a time when he needs this support, which is undoubtedly one of ...
educators in the past, are lured away from academia by better-paying positions in clinical and private practice (Mee, 2003). Furth...
the religious fervor generated by the teachings of "love and mercy" by Jesus Christ resulted in a dramatic increase in charitable ...
In fourteen pages this research paper considers how a nursing intervention can be designed to assist adults with PTSD resulting fr...
a patient to keep her own supply steady? Will she make a mistake and do something wrong as a result of substance abuse? So many th...
that is, whether it will spread (metastasize) and what symptoms that it is likely to cause (Cancer diagnosis, 2005). The term "sec...
the needs of the dying and her work indicates that there are times when the most meaningful communication that a nurse can offer i...
of ear infection (Chronic otitis media, 2003). OM is a serious childhood illness because, if not properly treated, it can lead to ...
in 1999 alone "returned almost $500 million to the federal government." (Butler, 2000, 1). The first question to consider...
face and chest that it causes, and it is characterized by chills, fever, headache, vomiting, rapid pulse, red rash and an inflame...
first started to administer to the injured and the sick, the notion that nurses should be women has prevailed (Odendaul, 2004). T...
of a break in the skin (a cut, a crack in dry skin) becomes infected by bacteria or fungi (Monroe, 2003). Cellulitis can also occ...
appears a simple enough way in which to establish the particular approach toward pain management for a given patient. However, re...
regards to lung function. If patients cannot breath on their own, RTs are trained on how to intubate patients and connect them to ...
CP/M, which was shortly to be succeeded by MS/DOS (Alsop 188). The Macintosh operating system offered an icon-driven system that a...
expected to develop some form of cancer "or another rapidly debilitating condition and well be dead within a year of getting the d...
and in 2001 unofficially took over daily operations of Johnson & Johnson as he was being trained to succeed Ralph Larsen upon his ...