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Healthcare and the Dangers of Nosocomial Infections

services. However, the greatest cost of all has been to human life, because nosocomial infections have resulted in patient deaths...

The Need for Quicker Lab Results

whether or not a patient complaining of chest pains is having or has had a heart attack (American Clinical Laboratory Association,...

Health Care Staff Shortages

nurses by 2012 to eliminate the shortage (Rosseter, 2009). By 2020, the District of Columbia along with at least 44 states will ha...

Colon Cancer Overview

with Lynch syndrome I (colonic tumors) and II (colonic and additional tumors such as endometrial, ovarian or breast. According to...

Colostomy Teaching

of materials for aiding with this preparation and it is recommended that the child should practice wearing a stoma bag, which aids...

Evaluation of "Analyzing Hospital Readmissions Using Statewide Discharge Databases"

of outcomes of care - Source of unnecessary - and high - costs - Fragmented state to state - Based on varied data * The problem ha...

MRSA Infection

a part of the normal flora of human beings and colonizes the anterior nares (Nicolle, 2006). However, it is also a significant pat...

END-OF-LIFE PLANNING, NURSING AND GUIDANCE

to provide adult individuals, at the time of inpatient admission (or enrollment) information about state laws rights concerning ad...

Ethics in Palliative Care

regarded as creating obligations on others to help her exercise her rights. An inherent theme that is implied in all of the questi...

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Lou Gehrig's Disease

comprised of both a smooth exterior and a tubular inner membrane that establish plate-like double membranes called cristae. Studi...

Big Pharma Exposed

grew from an average of seven in 1993 to an average of eleven in 2000 to an average of twelve in 2004 (Critser, 2007). At the tim...

Overview of scleroderma

occur, due to the effect of the disease on intestinal muscles. Heart and lungs may also be affected because of poor blood flow and...

Anorexia: Informational Essay

be anemia, light-headedness and swollen joints. Reduced muscle mass is also a danger for anorexics; if the disorder becomes sever...

IBC Inflammatory Breast Cancer

dose of antibiotics, after which time -- when the indications do not disappear -- further testing in the form of biopsy, ultrasoun...

A Discussion of Amnesia

In two pages this paper defines amnesia, considers its diagnosis and treatment methodologies along with the the biological, physic...

Illness and Culture in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent by Julia Alvarez

differences between cultures consist of variation in their main pattern in terms of these five dimensions and that these differenc...

A Research Proposal on Social Phobia

approaches: medications and psychotherapy. Cognitive behavioral therapy has shown the greatest promise. Among other elements, this...

The Trial by Franz Kafka

that it is impossible for a mere individual to resist the monolithic nature of an authoritarian state, also can be interpreted on ...

Type II Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease

In two pages cardiovascular disease and the complications it represents for patients suffering from Type II diabetes are discussed...

Abruptio Placentae

age, particularly among those women who are under 20 or older than 35; * Maternal uterine fibroids; * Maternal smoking, alcohol us...

Personality Disorders: Case Study Analyses

2008). He saw both his mother and his fianc?e as weak and lacking their own lives (Mendelowitz, 2008). The use of this case study ...

Guillain Barre/Physical Therapy

stress ad fearful concerning what is happening to them. Reassurance and description of the phases of the illness and the positive...

What is ADHD?

in a childs behavior in that it violates the norm. Eventually, the child is examined and possibly diagnosed with ADHD. ADHD is th...

Saving Fritz: How Much Is Too Much?

the neck but are now more often given in the leg, so that it can be amputated if a cancer occurs, thus savings the cats life (Lync...

Saving Fritz: Is There A Limit to Love?

dies is equivalent to the grief they feel for a person; in some cases it is even greater, because the animal cannot speak and tell...

CULTURALLY COMPETENT CARE AND HOLY REDEEMER

culturally competent care. Well examine what the literature has to say about such standards and, with this background, and an unde...

Breast Cancer in Women

"uninhibited in her sexual expression, regardless of her prior inclinations" (Thorne and Murray, 2000, p. 142). She will probably ...

Headaches and Migraines

that could be severely disabling (Taylor et al, 2004, p. S-3). The differences between a migraine and a tension headache are as f...

Osteoporosis In Elderly Women

in harmony and when they dont, osteoporosis is the result (Kantrowitz, 2007). Bone mineral density is generally measured as a T-s...

Article: The Effect of Uncertainty on Communication

Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Tulsa. Linda W. Cardillo is a doctoral student in the School of Journali...