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Patient Outcome and Defining the Contribution of Nursing

authors have explored the importance of the holistic approach in positively impacting patient outcome. As early as the 1970s rese...

An Article on Nursing Spirituality Critiqued

of spirituality is not uniform and that "spirituality" as a term is frequently used as a synonym for religion, which is not necess...

Article Critique of Prader Willi Syndrome and Food Preferences

a chromosome deletion. The major symptoms of PWS are: infantile hypotonia, failure to thrive, hypogonadism; developmental delay;...

An Article on Breast Cancer Patients and Food Choices Critiqued

been the principal focus in current research (1997). Studies focusing on school children generally include a food preference compo...

Health Care and Aging

are, of course, special considerations which go into treating the elderly. We know, for example, that the elderly often experienc...

Asperger's Disorder and DSM IV Assessment

However, as indicated in the main heading, this behavior alone is not sufficient to indicate Aspergers Disorder. The fact that Bil...

Student Supplied Case Study on Moral Pastoral Practice

worries that God is angry with her, that maybe He hates her. She feels she has destroyed her relationship with God. She even asks ...

Healing Wounds and the Role of Nutrition

placement of polyvinyl alcohol sponges into subcutaneous pockets" (p. 7). Each of the rats were "given a nutritional solution con...

The Terminal Patient: A Case Study

paradigm but without the fantasy that acceptance is the ultimate outcome. In treating this patient, a student writing on the subje...

Plato's Views on the Ethics of Healthcare

living" (Plato Crito 18-19). II. ABORTION To reach true happiness, Plato believed people must strive for a contentment tha...

Pain Management Choices and Patients Rights

quite succinctly. The Dax Cowart case, that has become rather well known, involves a seriously injured man who was left ...

Blodget Case Analysis

a new, inexpensive test, called the Fox test, is now in circulation, and is available to help screen clinic patients. The test cos...

Chronic Pain Management and Nursing Philosophy

stronger. The authors make no comment on whether any of the individuals were concerned about becoming dependent on their pa...

Terminally Ill Assistance and Euthanasia

a matter that is automatically seen as euthanasia. If we consider the case of Diane Petty we may see why it was that she sought t...

Annotated Bibliography on Patient Restraint

physical restraints. The authors own views combined with the findings of current literature reveal that the use of physical restr...

National Health Service Information System Implementation Methodology

this thesis makes use of the Actor Network Theory it is appropriate to use a research paradigm that may be seen as able to cope wi...

Nursing Home Management Interview Summary

every 30 minutes for protection, safety and placement. This was a two-part citation in that there is no evidence that staff...

Dreams from a Psychological Perspective

researchers investigating REM sleep report an interaction of the anterior cingulate cortex, amygdaloid complexes and posterior are...

Research Issues and Actor Network Theory

contribute in practice to the understanding of implementation of the electronic patient record. To undertake this there will be a...

Corporate Strategy Influences by Company Regulations

Cases such as British Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd v Armstrong Patents Co Ltd (1986) illustrated the way in which the older statu...

Poetic Spiders

seems to be making a statement about independence of spirit, but an involvement with mankind. "I markd where on a little promontor...

Emergency Room Decision Making

attack if irreparable harm and indeed loss of life is to be prevented (Isenstein, 1999). The statistics regarding coronar...

Emergency Diagnosis and Intervention Relating to Myocardial Infarction

The statistics regarding coronary artery disease make it obvious that emergency medical services are critical in saving the lives ...

Professional Dilemmas and Nursing Ethics

decisions. It is through our status as health care professionals that such a role is not only valued but critical. Nursing...

Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia and Treatment Seeking Influences

an SD of 17.2, compared with the heavier mean of those seeking treatment of 194 with a SD of 38.5. The sample used was 100% whit...

Quitting Smoking and Hospitalized Patients Educational Obstacles

In five pages this paper examines literature regarding the nurse's role in educating hospitalized patients on smoking cessation. ...

5 Articles Summarized

method in Assisted Suicide: Is There A Future? Ethical And Nursing Considerations employed the use of hypothetical euthanasia case...

Geriatrics and Orthostasis

blood pressure within the veins drops, too. The volume of the blood is what maintains the pressure on the vein walls. As a result,...

Pennsylvania's Medical Malpractice Tort Reform

200 percent of the compensatory damages awarded" (Bamonte PG). Currently juries have plenty of room to award large damage claims ...

Patient Harassment of Nurses

had even been stalked by patients (Global Forum for Health Research, 2000). A major study in Australia found that there is a sign...