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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...

Technology Implementation at SJMCH, A Case Study

This research paper presents a case study of the implementation of electronic technology at St. Joseph Medical Center at Houston, ...

Concept of Medical Futility

In twenty pages legal case law is examined in an argument that opposes medical paternalism and medical futility. Twenty sources a...

Hepatitis Types and EMS Implications

In four pages hepatitis is discussed in terms of its different types, process of transmission, symptoms, and signs with an evaluat...

Health Care Cost Reduction

In one hundred pages an exhaustive literature review considering how to reduce medical care costs in the United States is presente...

California Nonprofit Hospital Tax Exempt Status Assessment

In ten pages this position paper discusses challenging the tax exempt status of a California nonprofit hospital in terms of legali...

A Medical Perspective on Abuse

In eight pages medical intervention into instances of domestic violence is examined through statistics that support the contention...

Hunter 'Patch' Adams

as an opposing force rather than one that works for all living beings. Based upon his functionalist theory, Durkheim would not be...

Traditional and Modern Medicine

was sometimes stronger, sometimes weaker depending on the individual. Over the counter medicines do not offer this flexibility. ...

Nurse Practitioner Cost Analysis

In a paper consisting of twenty five pages that includes an annotated bibliography of nine pages the addition of a staff nurse pra...

Emergency Medical Situations and Family Attendance

In five pages this paper considers family member inclusion or exclusion in various medical situations and the medical and ethical ...

Caribbean and African Culture and Medical Considerations

require significant generalizations as to how this broad cultural group interacts with modern medical professionals. One of...

Medical Marijuana

and medical marijuana would be sold in pharmacies and likely grown by pharmaceutical companies. In one particular article it is ...

Interview: Public Health Official

political outcry might exist from the opposition. In the delivery of health care, the awareness of the bioethical "good" sets the...

Vital Signs/Multi-Ethnic Groups in US

pressure) is a chronic condition that constitutes a major risk element for both coronary heart disease and cerebrovascular disease...

Medical Coding - Informed Consent Forms

researchers found that persons who had diabetes were often readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge (Robbins and Web...

Careers in Health Information

produce accurate medical records and health information will be in increasing demand for some time, according to the Bureau of Lab...

Rapid Response Team: Quick Recognition And Intervention Of Problems At Va Medical Centers

being more capable of acting proactively and preventively. The philosophy of nursing is something much grander and more complex t...

Medical Marijuana

compounds and has been implicated in a high percentage of automobile crashes and workplace accidents" (Medical Marijuana ProCon.or...

Expanding Primary Care at Blackwell Health System

from large teaching hospitals, leaving them with the more seriously ill patients, whose care also is the most costly (Johnson and ...

Satellites: Contribution To Technology

and diabetes are just two of myriad diseases and conditions that modern medical sensors serve to help in situations beyond the ind...

Applying to Medical School

had an aptitude for math and science courses that would support my pursuit of a Bachelors of Science degree. As I developed in my...

Medical Error Disclosure: Is It Safe To Say You're Sorry?

Appropriate treatment decisions and planning require this level of honest communication. The decision to disclose shouldnt revolv...

Medical Futility And Ethics

2000). Here is an example: A young person is in an accident and has been in a persistent vegetative state for months. The family...

Contemporary Nursing Ethics

this development and left orders for both analgesia and sedation, which helped at first, but became less effective as the hours pa...

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. ...

Medical Emergency Teams (METs)

intensive care unit (ICU) (Scholle and Mininni, 2006, p. 37). Bedside nurses are encouraged in many hospitals to make a MET call...

Empirical Evaluation

healing. Respondents who reported moderate stress before group (56.3%) experienced a decrease (43.8%) after group that dropped th...

Patient’s Possessions & Cultural Competency

arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways and all other products of human work and thought..." (Purnell, 2005, p. 7). It is the eth...

Quality Nursing Care

whoever the client might be, that is, an individual, family, group or community. The third provision indicates that nurses are als...