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Women in Labor and Pain Control's Cultural Aspects

pain and also in how nurses from various cultures perceive the pain of their patients. As this suggests, Weber (1996) provides a c...

Nitroglycerin and its Medicinal Impacts

of the substance (Barker, 2001). In its medicinal application nitroglycerin has been combined with an inert binder to stabilize ...

Analysis of Emily Dickinson's Poetry

The truths of our lives are such that we often see only a part for a time and perhaps even forever. Even those truths...

Emily Dickinson's Poem, After Great Pain

for someone who has received a serious emotional trauma, but also that this poem can be interpreted at in more than one way, at mo...

A Defining Personal Experience

is my drive and determination, as, once I have decided on a goal, I never give up till that goal is accomplished. This ethos perme...

Determining a Potential Growth Strategy for a UK Paint Manufacturer

2011 (Bounds, 2011). Crown Paints owned by Hempel, a Danish firm that supplies a wide range of paints and related items to a numbe...

Disparities Between Real and Ideal Self

that distress and neuroses stem directly from a discrepancy or disparity between the ideal self (or the self as one perceives it) ...

Marijuana Bills Introduced by Reps. Blumenauer and Farr

This paper reports the history of the use of marijuana as a medical intervention and when it became illegal in this country. It po...

Nursing Relevance of Jean Watson's Theory of Caring

phenomenological, existential, and qualitative components (Cohen, 1991). These combine to create a theory that addresses the pers...

Fibromyalgia, Critique of a Quantitative Study

This research paper presents critique of a quantitative study conducted by Cranford and King (2011). This quantitative study focus...

Prescriptions and the Elderly

A large proportion of our elderly take multiple medications for multiple conditions. This has led to a situation known as polyphar...

Sadism and Masochism

This paper argues that when someone gets pleasure from pain, it is something that needs to be clinically investigated and appropri...

Aspects of Heart Assessment

This research paper covers briefly 7 aspects of heart and peripheral vascular assessment. The issues covered include a description...

Visions of Death in Emily Dickinson's Works

traumatic experience that the narrator has been through could very well be death. It is interesting to not the way that Dickinson ...

Chronic Pain: SOAP Assessment

This paper presents two SOAP evaluations of patients that are suffering from chronic pain. SOAP evaluation described subjective, o...

Water Immersion During Labor

This 10 page paper explains how the use of water during labor is used in Sydney, Australia. This paper outlines how water-birthing...

Program to Reduce Number of Medications Taken

As people grow older they tend to develop multiple physical illnesses and sometimes, mental illnesses or mental health problems. T...

Recent Encounter with a Patient with Chest Pain

This research paper pertains to a nursing encounter in which a patient presented with chest pain. The writer discusses NIC, NOC an...

Managing Pain Through Acupuncture

In five pages this paper assesses the value of using acupuncture as an effective approach to managing pain. Seven sources are cit...

Nature in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson

"After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes," "This is My Letter to the World," "I Had Been Hungry," and "They Shut Me Up in Prose,"...

Nursing Concept Analysis of Chronic Pain

In fifteen pages this research paper defines chronic pain and discusses its treatment based on current professional literature. N...

Fyodor Dostoevsky and Hermann Hesse on Consciousness's Pain and Joy

In seven pages this report examines the pain and the joy of the human consciousness as expressed in the Underground Man of Dostoev...

Critical Concepts in the Hospital Environment

Decision-making, critical thinking and advocacy are all important in the modern hospital experience. This paper examines a patient...

Pain and Infants

neonatal responsivity, this study will support the hypothesis that neonates (infants) are being subjected to painful procedures in...

Depression, Pain, and Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy

with "depression, sleep disturbance, fatigue, and decreased overall physical and mental functioning" (Hearn, 2001). Problem Stat...

Therapeutic Uses of Laughter and Humor

that this may not be far from the truth (Provine, 2000). There are clearly two parts to the view of laughter as a therapeutic t...

An Article on Back Surgery and Post Operative Pain Critiqued

control group received as much attention from nursing staff as the experimental groups (LaMontagne, et al, 2003). The interventi...

Depression and Pain Relationship and Chi Square Test Assessment

analysis. Making use of a sample of 100 patients, the test group is made up of 60 depressed patients with reflex sympathetic dystr...

Chiropractic Care and Pain in the Lower Back

In five pages this paper discusses the relationship that exists between chiropractics and pain in the lower back. Eight sources a...

Ethics of the Epicureans

his letter to Men?ceus. In it, he tells Men?ceus that it "is right then for a man to consider the things which produce happiness,...