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Patient Wholeness Theory of Margaret Newman

a nurse interacts with the patient can also be seen as very important in the healing process (Weingourt, 1998). An example ...

An Examination of Selective Immunoglobulin Isotype Deficiencies and Agammaglobulinaemia

were widely available, many children affected with XLA did not live through their first decade. The less common alymphocytotic ty...

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...

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...

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...

Pros and Cons of Chemotherapy for Cancer Patients

In ten pages an evaluation of cancer patients using chemotherapy treatment is presented through a consideration of its recovery ad...

Dementia Patients and Sexual Addiction

In three pages this paper discusses dementia in elderly patients and how dementia can result in this consideration of etiology and...

Literature Review on a Cancer Patient's Emotional Needs

It seems that within the context of the work, there is little compassion shown for the protagonist with the exception of one oncol...

Geriatrics and Orthostasis

blood pressure within the veins drops, too. The volume of the blood is what maintains the pressure on the vein walls. As a result,...

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...

Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia and Treatment Seeking Influences

an SD of 17.2, compared with the heavier mean of those seeking treatment of 194 with a SD of 38.5. The sample used was 100% whit...

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 ...

A Surgincal Team Change Hypothetical Case

The procedures of a surgical team are presented in a hypothetical case that consists of 7 pages. These procedures are described w...

Overview of Preterm Labor Treatment and the Role of an OB Nurse

at high risk for preterm labor would have the effect of reducing preterm labor rates; this has not been the case. Studies in Franc...

Nursing and Issues of Confidentiality

In seven pages the confidentiality issues nurses must contend with are discussed within the weighty context of the trust between p...

Evolution of Orthopedic Sports Medicine

In sixteen pages this paper discusses orthopedic sports medicine in terms of its evolution with such topics as injuries, treatment...

Patient Case Study

edema in MS bilateral lower extremities suggests diminished cardiac function is occurring. MS was assessed with potential previou...

California Nurse-Patient Ratios

(Cunningham, 2008). Observed Results Cortez (2008) states that in the past, patients had been known to call 911 from their ...

Alzheimer's Disease

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

Treatment and Outcomes for Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma

using CHOP alone. This study involved 399 patients who were 60 years of age and older in the advanced stages of NHL ("Adult NHL,"...

Diabetic Ketoacidosis, A Case Study

serious, potentially fatal, but preventable, complication of diabetes mellitus that occurs when there is insufficient insulin to m...

Limited Nursing Advocacy

report, admissions, and emergency situations" (Griffin, 2003, p. 135). The rationale for this policy is that it protects the confi...

Cultural Influences on Attitudes to Schizophrenia

have on patient outcomes. It was found patients from the Mexican American families, where there was a lower level of EE were also ...

Issues Concerning Childhood Depression

the childs life. Children are not simply adults in miniature, as their bodies and organ function are in a continual state of deve...

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...

Overview of Dolphin Therapy

dolphins could provide a piece to a perplexing medical puzzle that has long been missing. They can, these dolphin aficionados mai...

Evaluations of Biopsychosocial and Biomedical Health Models

true medical condition. The approach is taken even further by Thomas Szasz where any mental condition is not seen as a true medi...

Substance Abuse Treatment Privacy

Confidentiality and privacy are demanded for medical and mental health professionals. Psychologists and therapists live by the Eth...

Case Study, Congestive Heart Failure

This case study pertains to Mr. P, a congestive heart failure patient, and his wife. The writer relates an approach to care, a tre...

Mucor Infection, Pneumonia

This research paper presents information relevant to a patient for whom mucor infection has progressed to pneumonia. Lab results a...