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Getting the Teenage Diabetic Patient to Comply

One of the main problems with teenage diabetes patients is getting the patient to comply with the diet and medication regimen. Thi...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

Informed Consent and British Medical Law

upper house has, in fact, been in a state of suspended reform for almost a century - ever since the unelected Tory landowners who...

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 ...

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...

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. ...

Dialect, Accent/Southeast England

reality of this situation is that some accents are associated more closely with the accent that is perceived as the societal norm ...

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 ...

3 Nursing Theories as They Pertain to Geriatrics

of professional nursing, nursing theory provides perspectives and guidance that aids nurses in achieving their primary goal of pro...

A Leaflet Explaining the Impact of Mandated Nurse to Patient Ratios in the Health Industry

nurse to patient ratio in California. In 1992 and 1993 the California Nurses Association has sponsored the Democratic Senator Jack...

Should a Nurse Assist in the Suicide of a Suffering Patient

looking at a potential scenario where a patient seeks the provision of narcotics with the intention of ending their life the nurse...

Speech and Language: Working with At-Risk Patients

experiences (Chapter 2). Behaviorists like B.F. Skinner further developed the concept of conditioning in what Skinner deemed oper...

What Are The Differences Between Leaders and Managers

(1989), a management guru suggested that a succinct explanation is that managers are people who do things right and leaders are pe...

Organizational Behavior Problem in Hospitals

A study by the Joint Commission revealed that communication failures were implicated at the root of over 70 percent of sentinel ev...

Communication Across Cultural Gaps

The issue of cross cultural communications is discussed looking at how and why individuals from different cultures may find it dif...

Should New Drugs Be Labelled As ‘New’ To Indicate A Higher Risk Than Established Dugs?

funds used to ensure drug safety focused in the approval of new drugs. After a drug is approved there are few quality reports unde...

American Family Values

is much more acceptable for families to be "blended" or for couples to have babies out of wedlock now. In fact, to some extent, Ho...

Enhancing Total Quality Management at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Guam

quite a leap to effectively apply its principles to service industries, but TQM is as much at home in health care as it is in manu...

Truth in Patient Care

"become a universal law" (Kant, 1993, p. 30). In other words, Kants main criteria for action is that the individual should conside...

Using Utilization Management to Determine Courses of Action in a Canadian Hospital

MIS Guidelines? Certainly the publication addresses resource utilization, but does it specifically address creation of a new unit...

UK's 'No Frills' Airlines and Organizational Culture

to put speed and efficiency as a priority: the planes must keep to a tight schedule and often must faster turn-around times, and l...

Policies of Criminal Justice and Drug Issues

tend to have sufficient social and economic power to transcend even law enforcement agencies themselves. If profits from the drug ...

Report by a Consultant on an Organization's Culture

the most advanced in the region. As has been the case in other areas of electronics, the servicing of mobile phones has bec...

Patient Privacy Issue and HIV Testing at Home

In seven pages this paper examines the issue of patient privacy as one of the topics involved in the controversial HIV home testin...

Health Care and Communication

to miscommunication. For example, in a busy hospital where there is a high degree of activity patients may be distracted and not e...

Cultures, Groups, 'Insiders' and 'Outsiders'

In a paper consisting of 9 pages this paper examines cultures, groups, what it means in terms of 'insider' and 'outsider' cultures...