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Instructional Approaches Assessed

must have at least some knowledge of the topic of discussion beforehand, or the discussion can disintegrate into an exercise in "p...

Medical Law and Refusing Consent

it is these issues of autonomy and personal rights that are concerned the sanctity of life is a secondary issue and cases such as ...

Advance Directive Uses

before intubating her, but the woman needed an airway cleared right away. Only after restoring breath to the woman did they learn...

The Parish Nurse and Advanced Practice Nursing

issues of spirituality. In essence, the parish nurse has the ability to treat the whole patient, rather than only addressing symp...

Patient Education Assessment

to take insulin only when his blood glucose level was above the value established by his physician. The nurse laid out all ...

4 Nursing Metaparadigms Defined

how change can be effectively managed and challenges in the transformation of nursing and health care delivery. Clearly, Roys mod...

Inner City Adult Asthma Patients and Risk Factors

and a very important factor is a lack of medical attention. All of these things culminate in a situation where people are more vul...

Overview of EMDR Therapy

EMDR therapists assert that the treatment is suitable for a wide range of disorders; that it is much quicker than other forms of...

Nursing and Chronicity

particular, resilience is also crucial because each instance is completely unique and may require a different response. In other ...

Terminal Conditions and Informing Patients

patient, but it could serve to avoid having the same thing happen again in the future. Other Facts, Options and Consequences ...

Terminal Condition and Informing Patients 2

Acquiescing to the constraints imposed by organizational and professional structure does not mean that the nurse has no alternativ...

Nursing Reflections

biochemistry. I recognized the wonder of chemistry, but what I failed to recognize at the time was the solid practice it gave me ...

Consideration of Medical Negligence

In ten pages medical negligence is considered with such cases as 1957's Bolam v. Friern HMC and 1997's Bolitho v. Hackney HA refer...

Case Study on Mechanical Ventilation

authors isolated the following recurring elements, in order of their statistical appearance in the definitions [1]: Violence, forc...

Advanced Practice Nursing Care and Ida Jean Orlando's Theory

to identify and to relate in terms of actual patient care. Ida Jean Orlando created a conceptual view of the nursing process whic...

Patient Choice and Medical Negligence

mechanism it can be expected that this shift in the accountability and transparency needs to be indicates within case law. It can...

Professional Nursing and Theory

are licensed individuals who go through at least one year of formal education in addition to clinical instruction, and the focus o...

A Case Study in Alcoholism, Diagnosis and Treatment

after which he began drinking again. After this, the patient demonstrated a desire to poison himself, and this resulted in his ow...

'Proper' Alternative of Euthanasia

what is tantamount to a death sentence, because of the "uncertain definition of suicide in the context of a terminal illness" (Mar...

Trauma Uses for Colloids and Crystalloids

Crystalloids and colloids are coming into use for trauma cases where fluids are being used for resuscitation. This paper gives a g...

New Budget Devising

of revenues, and it is likely lower. Allowing 35 percent food cost, however, the cost of operations including labor should not ex...

History and Recommendations for Advanced Directives

Mr. Schiavo finally was allowed the right to have his wifes feeding tube removed, the right to allow her to die of lack of nutrien...

Senior Citizen Mental Patients and Relocation

and that maintaining the most stable possible environment has been found to help alleviate the impact of such behaviours: it might...

Cancer Support Groups and Remedial Model Usage

in groups created by the reciprocal model and attention is given to both ideas and feelings (1990). The needs of the group members...

Medical Doctors and Nurse Practitioners Conflict Management

the elderly. The Nurse Practitioner announced in its July 2000 issue that reports of the AMAs petition had been received as...

Advocacy and Caring in Nursing

The link between nurse caring and patient satisfaction has been reported numerous times. For instance, the AORN journal reported a...

Patient Self Determination Act and Health Services Industry

less likely to have advanced directives (Hanson and Rodgman, 1996). This same study reported the use of advanced directives incre...

Nursing Journal Critique Upon Cancer Patient Treatment Through Therapeutic Massage

using similar tests and with mixed variables such as aromatherapy and hypnosis. All of the studies mentioned concluded that massag...

Case Study of Diagnoses by DSM IV TR and Patient Assessment

time, after which he began drinking again. After this, the patient demonstrated a desire to poison himself, and this resulted in ...

Five Questions on Medical Law

himself to be placed in charge of Thompsons case, he assumed the responsibility of having all adequate medical knowledge to pursue...