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The intent of anesthesia, of course, is to pharmaceutically suppress the perception and thus the memory of the procedure. There h...

Hippocratic oath extends not just to what a patient might tell a doctor but also to what a doctor concludes in regard to a patient...

She surveyed all of the independent living facilities in the local area and chose one; her grown children arranged and conducted t...

as the patient is the rogerian approach. This can be combined with different approaches to public health, such as the biomedical m...

of dying and that some of this research indicated significant differences in this awareness. This leads into a discussion of what ...

precepts, and laws of the land, which are established for the good of the society" (Nnoromele). We know that there are nine villag...

Literature Review As the above summation indicates, the researchers provide a logical and persuasive argument for their selection...

medications or they could be a sign of depression (Turner and Kelly, 2000). Turner and Kelly (2000) state strongly that it is e...

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

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

hypoglycemia require different nursing responses. Mild hypoglycemia, which is defined by the symptoms listed above and a glucose r...

a study whose purpose was to determine the way in which patients perceive patient education efforts. This research revealed that c...

as individuals, "healthcare executives must evaluate the possible outcomes of their decisions and accept full responsibility for t...

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

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

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...

"encouragement of facing probl4ems/fears, support of efforts to master problems/ears, affective experiencing/catharsis" (Coady 15)...

there are those that are relevant to childrens protection as well, such as confidentiality. For example, during a recent visit tw...

life in prison for patient death (Jacko & Sears, 2003). HIPAA is comprised of five major titles that are applicable to each provi...

points out, medicalization is a process that defines a problem in terms of the practitioners perspective and cultural biases, rath...

the patient die (1975). Consider the case of a patient with terminal throat cancer, who is in terrible pain which cannot successfu...

Patient adherence to a prescribed chemotherapy is particularly crucial to the goal of positive patient outcomes in regards to trea...

of four (Bernstein, 2000). Its use also reduces hospitalizations by 59 percent and yields a benefit to cost ratio of seven to one,...

by Johansson, Dahlstrom and Brostrom (2006), they found 10 studies that examine4d the relationship between depression in HF patien...

classify medical errors (Pace et al., 2005). In fact, there are taxonomies to classify errors but they are not standardized (Pace ...

movement disorders, such as Parkinsons and dystonia. This procedure was initially developed in 1987 in France (Song, 2006). This a...

to base their arguments on more spiritual and ethereal ground, such as the idea that a persons life ends when God chooses to end i...

in place for some time, and none of the fears surrounding it have ever materialized (Seale, 2006). Research shows that 171 people ...

cancer affects both the man and his life partner. In most cases, study designs addressing quality of life issues for prostate canc...

patient, the attending nurse is seldom in the room at the same time. The attending physician may refer the patient to a cardiologi...