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Substance Abuse And Dual Diagnosis

with mental illnesses may reach out to drugs or alcohol to ease the pain they are feeling. It becomes very difficult to separate t...

Using PrOACT

moving onto the objectives, looking at the alternatives and considering the consequences and the trade offs. In this paper we will...

Disease Management/Hypertension

management (DM) concept Disease management (DM) is defined as a "systematic clinical improvement process," which addresses both ...

Refusal of Palliative Care/Bioethics

this incident may have contributed to her divorce. It is also true that her mother has had a problem with alcoholism for over twen...

Music As Sedation for Children

was evaluated using the Beth Israel Medical Center flow sheet sedation scale (Loewy, et al, 2006). If, after 30 minutes, the patie...

Assessment Of Research Into Treatment Of Congestive Heart Failure

six months the intervention group had only 68 compared to 118 in the control group, likewise quality-of-life was found to be highe...

Psychological Approaches to Counseling

ask these questions because he is trying to find out if the patient has any understanding as to why his behavior makes him uneasy;...

Girl, Interrupted And Borderline Personality

the DSM IV-TR (Therapydoc, 2007). The next one is due sometimes in 2012 (Therapydoc, 2007). It will no doubt change etiologies, di...

Health Care Services Case Study

healthcare services to senior citizens, which is an at-risk population in this country. One helping approach for people with dis...

The Importance of Hope in Palliative Care

are fatigued often have trouble dealing successfully with their illness. In this article Benzein and Berg note that "Hope, hopeles...

Health Care Communication

patient (Seidel, 2004). This author also states that effective communication is something that can and must be learned (Seidel, 2...

A Case Study to Demonstrate Influences on the Delivery of Mental Healthcare

influences can be broken down into political, economic, social and technological. Political influences are one of the most importa...

Ethical Concerns of Counselors

and his parents "Jessica" and his stepfather, "Peter." The entire family came to John seeking support for the declining condition...

Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice

get abortions (National Abortion Federation, 2010). This means that women could see certified physicians instead of finding quacks...

Cranberry and the Treatment of Urinary Tract Infections

This paper concludes that because at least one study questions its effectiveness, cranberry should probably not be the only treatm...

Contesting a Will on Grounds of Mental Capacity

the family home, where Jill still resided, $150,000 in bank deposits as well as some antiques and personal chattels to her grandch...

Case Study/COPD

not fully reversible, is treatable. This term describes a progressive airflow limitation that typically caused by an inflammatory ...

Changing the Views on Mental Health Care

is dedicated to the memory of Linda Anderson, research writer, mother and friend....

A Psychology Case Study

Disorder 300.3 Axis II: Schizoid Personality Disorder 301.20 Axis III: Abuse of caffeine. Axis IV: Stressors related to compl...

Issues in Implementing Change for a Healthcare Company

The writer looks at a scenario where a home care health organization wants to introduce an electronic patient records system. The ...

The Impact of Schizophrenia

the family are high, exacerbated by the death of Davids father. Feelings Gibbs reflective cycle will usually focus in the feelin...

Two Article Summaries

effectiveness of a computer-based access that informed primary care physicians of all prescriptions dispensed to specific patients...

Alzheimer's Disease

("Three stages," 2011, p. 1465). Mild cognitive impairment characterizes the second stage of AD ("Three stages," 2011). The thre...

Computer Tools and Inappropriate Prescribing for the Elderly

The incidence of inappropriate medication prescriptions issued to elderly individuals is estimated to be between 12 and 40 percent...

Technology Improves Emergency Rooms

their resources and materials but emergency rooms do not seem to be able to keep track of equipment or even patients. One issue we...

Therapeutic Hypothermia

report on her search process, as several of the articles she provided are included in this review. This writer/tutor accessed the ...

Report Proposing the Adoption of Electronic Health Records

additional costs of transcribing existing active patient records. The implementation will also incur additional operating costs,...

Temperature Reduction in Perioperative Therapy

meperidine and skin surface warming on shivering." AORN Journal July 2007: 113+. General OneFile. Web. 29 Aug. 2011....

Assessing an Investment for a Hospital

investment in the software program has a number of benefits as well as some challenges. The development of a system where patient ...