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Dorothea Orem and Florence Nightingale on Nursing Theories, Beliefs, and Values

prepared for this role" (McKenna, 1997, p. 87). Perhaps most significant of all was Florence Nightingales belief that env...

Home Oxygen Therapy

and TCPL2. The precise level of oxygen allowed per patient is prescribed by the patients physician. Too much or too little can b...

Toxicity and Drug Absorption Impacts and Enzymatic Polymorphism

natural selection and the "accumulated mutations, deletions, duplications, and other changes" incurred by CYP families, they now a...

Continuing Education for the Healthcare Professional

Continuing education is a universal requirement for professionals in the healthcare industry. This paper presents a lesson plan on...

Program of Continuing Education

In five pages this paper considers educating patients about menopause in a seminar by exploring its core objectives. Two sources ...

Marijuana for Medical Purposes

In ten pages this paper argues in favor of a medical need for marijuana to be legally used citing the similar character properties...

Medical Technology and Computers

In seven pages medicine and its computer history are considered with such concepts as telemedicine, computer aided surgery, and 'v...

Dangerous Practice of Assisted Suicide by Dr. Jack Kevorkian

In six pages this essay presents and argument against Dr. Jack Kevorkian's practice of assisting terminally ill patients to commit...

Dr. Jack Kevorkian's Actual Motives

In five pages this paper argues that the intent of Dr. Jack Kevorkian was to perform human experimentation and not to assist termi...

Journal of Advanced Nursing Article 'An Exploratory Study of Recipients' Perceptions of Bone Marrow Transplantation' III

This paper consists of three pages and presents an article analysis involving post surgery and recovery investigation of patient r...

Health Care Quality, Nursing Job Satisfaction, and a Review of a Nursing Journal Article VI

In two pages an article featured in a nursing journal is reviewed that considers the correlation between patient health care quali...

Hospice Care, Dying, and Death

In three pages a nursing perspective is applied to a hospice program that deals with terminal patients through investigative resea...

Terminal Illness and Counseling

In fifteen pages this research paper discusses how psychologists, clerics, physicians and nurses can counsel patients who are term...

Standard Coronary Bypass and MIDCAB Benefits

In eight pages this literature review emphasizes the benefits of the minimally invasive MIDCAB direct coronary bypass surgical pro...

Elective Cholecystectomy Stress Levels Study

In seventeen pages this research paper examines the effects preoperative education has on patients electing to undergo elective ga...

Animal Assisted Therapy and the Relationship Between Dogs and Humans

emotional, physical and mental care. Dogs establish a fierce loyalty to their human families in a very short amount of time; bond...

Dignified Dying Through Hospice Care

In four pages this paper examines the important assistance hospices offer in terms of the process of dying and specifically discus...

Withholding Treatment and Ethical Issues Pertaining to Nursing

In four pages this paper examines the ethics of withholding treatment in the form of hydration and nutrition from patients who are...

Assisted Suicide, Ethics, and Nursing

way, before his mind too, was gone." As a nurse, this presented me with what I felt were two conflicting goals. On the one hand, ...

Quality in Health Care and the Effects of Agency Nurses

In seventeen pages this research paper examines the U.S. system of health care in terms of the empirical studies that indicate the...

Suicide and AIDS

In a paper consisting of twelve pages the ethical, social, and cultural issues involved in the issue of suicide and AIDS patients ...

An Emergency Medical Perspective on AIDS

In a paper consisting of six pages AIDS' causes and treatment are considered with particular emphasis upon the minimal risks to he...

A Radiographic Overview of Emphysema

This paper examines the various classifications of emphysema as well as the use of radiographic techniques in the diagnosis, asses...

Artificial Nutrition, Hydration, and Ethics

In twelve pages patient ethics are examined in a consideration of issues associated with artificial hydration and nutrition. Twel...

A Discussion of Anorexia Nervosa

In five pages patients suffering from anorexia are examined in terms of onset, occurrence, frequency and also considers the relati...

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders and Alcoholism

In a paper consisting of ten pages the treatment of patients suffering from post traumatic stress disorders and alcoholism is exam...

Mentally Challenged Individuals and Contract Law

stories are legendary about people who receive their tattoos under the influence. The problem is that with mentally challenged i...

Critical Modality of Humor

In three pages this research paper discusses how humor can be a modality that assists nurses in patient care as well as self care....

Hispanics and Diabetes Management

Have you had any experience in helping a friend or family member manage diabetes? The patient replied that she was not aware of...

Right to Die Defense

and the bitterness on both sides of that unfortunate incident have brought the debate about the right-to-die to the fore. Ironi...