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Patient Teaching Plan on Diabetes and the Internet

In five pages this paper examines how the Internet can be used as a tool to teach patients how to manage the disease diabetes....

Article Critique/Where Terminally Ill Prefer to Die

that puts the topic of this study, as well as past research, within an appropriate philosophical framework. Tang then cites the ...

Nursing & Mandatory Overtime

expectancy is increasing and more people are surviving serious illness and living longer with chronic illness. At the same time, t...

Nursing Need to Delegate

the nurse is uncertain of which tasks are appropriate to delegation, as well as the skill level of UAPs, their reluctance becomes ...

Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Among African Americans

This 25 page paper provides an overview of the current literature regarding CVD in African American patients. Bibliography lists ...

Pittsburgh VA Heathcare and Uninsured

provided by the veterans administration (Medicine News, 2007). Nearly 13 percent of all veterans fall under the ban to services pe...

Healthcare Communication

Asynchronous communication is that which does not require the simultaneous direct attention of all involved. It can take the form...

Setting Boundaries in the Therapeutic Relationship

welfare must be protected at a premium. If our definition of boundary violations, however, overlap our standard practices a dilem...

How Can Doctors Get Patients to Comply?

who "cheats" on his diet (1994). Doctors merely expect patients to comply with their dictums but this author says that some like S...

Case Study of Patient Evaluation

The following are the five DSM-IV-TR Diagnoses based on the DSM Five-Axis determinations: Axis I: Alcohol dependence...

Physician Reported Syphilis and Ethics

what serves the greatest number serves the greater good" (London A12), rather than what is favorable for a few. Indeed, this has ...

Appendicitis Diagnosis and Computerized Tomography Scans

prior to patient/surgeon consultation (Lee, Walsh, and Ho, 2001). In reality, such approaches are limited given that the most acc...

Families and Therapeutic Goals Regarding Autism

"syndrome of behavioral deficits and excesses that have a biological basis but are nonetheless amenable to change through carefull...

Discussion of Change Theories for Specific Field

The paper begins by briefly identifying and explaining three of the standard change theory/models. The stages of each are named. T...

Health Care: Ethical Dilemma

HIV-positive nurses being a threat to patients and other health care workers. Research clearly supports the reality of the situat...

Nursing Shortage In The United States: Causes, Effects And Solutions

Budget cutbacks, burnout and lack of student enrollment have precluded sufficient staffing in many critical areas of healthcare. ...

Herbal Medicine/What Nurses Should Know

not as drugs, which means that these remedies do not undergo the rigorous testing that is required for prescription medicines (He...

Contemporary Nursing Ethics

this development and left orders for both analgesia and sedation, which helped at first, but became less effective as the hours pa...

Agency & Traveling RNs

(Green, 2004a). A travel nurse, on the other hand, is typically contracted to work a 13-week period, and this usually includes an ...

Section Addiction; the Addiction and Contrasting Treatments Using Narrative and Existential Therapy

for one person may be unhealthy for another. A parallel with alcoholism may also be useful, the way one individual used alcohol ma...

Hepatotoxicity/Mechanisms

have been associated with NRTIs, which are believed to cause mitochondrial dysfunction, which range from oxidative damage to inhib...

Impact of HIV/AIDS on Nursing

noted that cases of a rare lung infection, pneumocystis carinni pneumonia, had occurred in Los Angeles and also that three young m...

Nursing Home Patients And Their Vulnerabilities During Disasters

food, clean water and - most important for some people who did not survive - electricity to keep their life-sustaining equipment r...

Images of Nursing

when nurses are needed the most, which is when we are ill (line 12). This is when "Nurses come through, with their care and goodwi...

Humor Therapy

decreases blood pressure as well as reducing the level of stress hormones while increasing muscle flexion and boosting the immune ...

Nurse/Patient Ratios/Not One Size Fits All

assisting registered nurses (RNs) in order to meet legislated requirements (Schaefer 9). This means that while RNs have fewer pati...

Annotated Bibliography/Nursing Shortage & Foreign Recruitment

A pertinent issue to foreign nurse recruitment, as a method for alleviating the shortage of nurses in US hospitals, is the number ...

Speech-Language Therapy/Children w/ADHD

strategies used to identify the function of the target behavior" (Stahr, et al, 2006, p. 201). In other words, an intervention is ...

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Used in the Treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

a result, more diagnoses have been made (Grinage, 2003). It is now something that is also associated with trauma stemming from chi...

Cognitive Behavior Therapy

could impede therapeutic progress (Martin, 2007). Beck decided it was essential to be able to identify and discuss these automati...