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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...

A Research Proposal on Social Phobia

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

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...

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,...

Colon Cancer Overview

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

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...

Sickle Cell Disease Awareness and Advocacy Strategies

promote new and innovative treatments for sickle cell disease, as well as to increase the quality of life in those who have the di...

Dyspnea, Family Caregiving and Quality of Life

primary symptoms of COPD are "wheezing, cough, dyspnea on exertion and increased phlegm production" (Touhy and Jett, 2012, p. 289)...

Practicum Example for a Nursing Course

of falls in elderly chronic patients at that home. 1c. Discuss findings with supervisor/mentor. 1a. The creation of a detailed...

Inarritu's "Babel" - Lessons in Conflict and Communication

terrorist act), and this prevents Susan from getting the care that she requires for quite some time. Another major conflict in t...

Capital and Operating Projections for an IT Project

last start up cost is the start up training costs for the staff, if the staff are to be brought in from external sources there may...

Reducing Recidivism, Lancaster, et al (2011)

fails to perform the mandated service (Barkan and Bryjak, 2011). Other strategies include house arrest, with electronic monitoring...

Effects of New Health Reform Policy

income (Douglas & Burke, 2010; Kaiser Family Foundation, 2011). Medicare taxes on net investment income will also increase from 0....

Primary Prevention in Diabetic Care

can be easily determined via the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) and by testing fasting plasma glucose (FPG), as these tests ar...

Pharmacological Overview of Asthma

the attack from happening at all. This can be of immense relief to those accustomed to suffering from debilitating asthma attacks,...

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...

Overview of the Juvenile Justice System

this development, the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 was passed, which encouraged a policy of "zero tolerance" as it criminalized s...

Facing a Family Health Challenge

frequently the needs of terminal patients are not addressed properly and that multiple problems exist in this regard. Practitioner...

Two Article Summaries

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

A Proposal to Discover The Reasons for the Low Use of Preventative Treatment for Malaria in Pregnant Ugandan Women

this incidence it is important that programs to reduce malaria are well implemented, but research indicates that in Uganda there i...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...