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Massage and Shoulder Pain

of spasms and other complications that have bothered the client for over five years. Next the client should be asked "What ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Chronic Pain: SOAP Assessment

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

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...

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...

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...

Chapters Two and Four of Utilitarianism by J.S. Mill

regarded as being little more than attempting to keep a pig satisfied. Because man has the intellectual capacity for reason, he s...

Analgesia and Anesthesia Uses in Infants

In twelve pages this paper analyzes using the drug fentanyl on neonates as a pain reliever during surgery or painful medical proce...

Mothers, Epidurals, and Nursing Effectiveness

In five pages this paper discusses epidural pain relief anesthesia during baby delivery and how nurses can effectively address any...

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...

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...

Nitroglycerin and its Medicinal Impacts

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

Music and its Health Benefits

how this works but one thing that is certain is that the brain responds to certain kinds of music. Scientists now agree that music...

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...

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...

Emily Dickinson's Poem, After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes

This paper provides a reading of the Dickinson poem, 'After Great Pain a Formal Feeling Comes. The author contends that Dickinson...

Back Pain and its Biomechanics

In six pages biomechanics are examined in terms of lower back pain and its treatment through prescribed exercises. Five sources a...

A look at Cervical Disk Disease

other origins. Whereas HNP involves extension of disk material beyond the normal confines of the margin of the vertebrae on eithe...

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...

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...