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Overview of Self Mutilation

superficial variety is most common among adolescents. Self-mutilation is commonly the cutting of forearms or wrists, but there ca...

Questions on Health Care Delivery System in the U.S.

therefore, highly desirable to have a variety of types of LTC settings. Furthermore, alternatives to institutionalized care can o...

Treating a Hispanic Alcohol Abuser

are distinctive patterns of drug and alcohol abuse within the Hispanic population. Overall, Hispanics use alcohol at rates simila...

Dementia and Evidence Based Practice

severe behavioural problems, the only viable option for care is within NHS long stay facilities, although there should be wide ran...

Drug Ecstasy

to medical science (Ecstasy, 2004). It wasnt until the 1980s that it was first introduced to the "streets" as an illicit drug (Ec...

Growth Factors and Parkinson's Disease

to receptors that are on the surface of nerves (Pressman, 2004). What happens then is that they are transported to the cell body t...

Pharmacology and Substance Abuse

of Revia is the potential for the drug to cause liver problems (Drugstore.com, 2003a). Consequently patients who have existing l...

Comparing Alcohol Abuse in Heterosexuals and Lesbians

alcohol and drugs (McDaniel, 2001, 86). Abuse is a part of the lesbian experience as it is for all areas of society, but...

Software Development and Ethics

desire to increase revenue to allow further development and facilitate increased benefits to the users. The errors may not be as s...

Study on Health Status and Participation Critiqued

evaluating information (including assumptions and evidence) related to the issue, considering alternatives ... and drawing conclus...

Quality of Life and the Role of Nursing

Conroy and Nottoli (1999) report the case of Henry, an irascible octogenarian who easily was the most difficult patient in the ski...

Health and Gender Inequality

2000). Even as recently as just a couple of decades ago, conditions such as cramps, pregnancy nausea and even labor pains were oft...

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...

Nursing and Family's Role

caused by the illnesses the may then have a negative physiological backlash on the patient. For other condition it may be the ro...

Contrasts Between Culture and Medical Science in The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

experience, particularly that immigrant experience as it occurs within the modern medical environment, revolves around cultural un...

Overview of Psychogenic Shock

what accompanies significant pain ("Shock," 2004). From the loss of a loved one to a car accident to the discovery that ones spous...

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...

Children and Elective Mutism

condition in which children dont speak because they dont want to (Leung and Kao, 1999). Those with elective mutism will speak when...

Depression and Assessing the Benefits of Pharmacotherapy and Psychoanalysis

to be a disease of the insane, depression has finally been recognized for the debilitating and emotionally unbalancing illness it ...

Depression and Pain Relationship and Chi Square Test Assessment

analysis. Making use of a sample of 100 patients, the test group is made up of 60 depressed patients with reflex sympathetic dystr...

Overview of Conversion Disorder

to: "weakness, paralysis, sensory disturbances, pseudoseizures, and involuntary movements such as tremors. Symptoms more often af...

Manifestation Differences and Dyslexia

between 5% and 15% of all Americans (Health & Medicine Week, 2004). Padget has given a good definition of the condition, which it ...

Tumors of the Brain

Overall, there are two types of brain tumors - these are primary brain tumors that begin in the brain itself, and metastic brain t...

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Antibiotic Use, and Childhood Infections

In six pages Sydenham's chorea is discussed as it relates to obsessive compulsive disorder and the treatment of strep throat with ...

Adolescent Alcoholism Hypothesis and Recommendations

In five pages this paper examines adolescent alcoholism in terms of problem identification, methodology, treatment, literature rev...

Overview of Cleft Palate Disorder and Recommendations

In five pages the physiology of cleft palate is presented in an informational overview as well as parents and teachers implication...

An Alcoholism Case Study

This paper consists of 14 pages and presents a case study of a 70-year old man that has struggled with alcoholism for a half centu...

Terminally Ill Children and Counseling

In seven pages the issues related to counseling a dying child patient and family members are examined. Twelve sources are cited i...

Community Health Model of Alcoholism and a Native American Reservation

In a paper that consists of twenty pages intervention and a treatment for Native Americans living on reservations who suffer from ...

Overview of Diabetes

In seven pages diabetes is examined in terms of cause, types, treatment, and whether or not it is curable in any form. Six source...