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Impact Of Chronic Illness On The Elderly And Families

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

"My Own Country: A Doctor's Story"

system (Verghese). "It was clear, though no one had yet seen a case, that he was Johnson Citys first case of the acquired immune d...

Article Critique/Awareness of Impending Death

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

Bispectral Index (BIS) Monitor and its Application in Eliminating Postoperative Memory of Intraoperative Events

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

Rogerian Therapy For HIV Positive Clients

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

Aging with MS/Article Analysis

be used. Discussing qualitative research in general provides a topic to which outside sources can be logically applied. This write...

Prospective Payment Systems

(Moore, 2006, p. 10). The result is that this practice is losing so much money on Medicaid patients that they are beginning to res...

Avian Flu 2

include HPAI in a local bird population and contact with another patient with an unexplained repository disease and a positive res...

Health Care Communication

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Confidentiality/ANA Ethics & New York State Law

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

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...

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...

Assessment Of Research Into Treatment Of Congestive Heart Failure

six months the intervention group had only 68 compared to 118 in the control group, likewise quality-of-life was found to be highe...

Refusal of Palliative Care/Bioethics

this incident may have contributed to her divorce. It is also true that her mother has had a problem with alcoholism for over twen...

Music As Sedation for Children

was evaluated using the Beth Israel Medical Center flow sheet sedation scale (Loewy, et al, 2006). If, after 30 minutes, the patie...

Using PrOACT

moving onto the objectives, looking at the alternatives and considering the consequences and the trade offs. In this paper we will...

Disease Management/Hypertension

management (DM) concept Disease management (DM) is defined as a "systematic clinical improvement process," which addresses both ...

Psychological Approaches to Counseling

ask these questions because he is trying to find out if the patient has any understanding as to why his behavior makes him uneasy;...

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...

The Ethical Responsibilities of Health Care Organizations

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

Importance of Correct Insulin Dosage

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

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...

Ethics Of Managed Care

of literature about biomedical ethics relative to patient autonomy. This type of autonomy is limited, at best, with managed health...

Schizophrenia and Weight Gain

exposes patients to new health risks by increasing their tendency to gain weight. Interventions that address the potential for wei...

Drug Therapy-Statins

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