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The Healing Applications of the Hypnotic Technique

Hypnosis is sometimes regarded more as a parlor trick than as an effective approach to influencing human behavior and...

Reviewing the Literature on OBRA 87 and Care Quality

to increase the quality of care given in long term care facilities in the country, in order to ultimate reduce health care costs t...

Overview of Jean Watson's Theory of Transpersonal Caring

a noun and a verb, is inextricably intertwined with nursing. Nurses provide care, that is, the actions necessary to attend to pati...

Looking at the Practical Aspects of Introducing a New Strategy for a Home Care Agency

legislation an the economic feasibility of the plan. A major role of the board will be to make the decision, to ensure that there ...

Moral Distress and Futile Care

This research paper investigates the relationship between the provision of futile care and the development of moral distress among...

Interviewing Vulnerable Elders, MDS 3.0

This essay presents a summary and analysis of "Video on Interviewing Vulnerable Elders (VIVE)," which instructs nurses and long-te...

Reed (2010), An Article Critique

This pair consists of the speaker notes for khapnpall.ppt, a six-slide Power Point presentation that critiques an article, Reed (2...

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, however, mandated electronic health records for all Medicare and Medicaid pati...

Legal and Ethical Views on Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

a patients life so that the individuals life reaches its natural conclusion without any intervention measures to prolong suffering...

Assessing VA's IT Strategic Plan

5-year IT strategic plan that is updated annually. The plan maintains continued alignment with and adherence to the VAs larger st...

Ethics of a Two-Tier Health System

medically necessary services provided by hospitals and doctors must be insured;"5 * Universality - ensures uniform terms and condi...

Teaching about Breast Cancer

prefer the least invasive surgical option, others prefer the traditional approach (Katz and Hawley, 2007). Therefore, a major topi...

The Marketing Of Prescription Drugs

A five stage model looking at problem recognition, information search, evaluation of alternatives, purchase decision, and post- pu...

How Euthanasia is Treated in New York

Laws that govern each of the named practices reflect a judgment call and they vary ("When Death is Sought" 49). Physicians often ...

ADVANCED NURSE PRACTITIONERS AND MDS: EQUAL WORK FOR EQUAL PAY

PhysicianSalary.net, MDs can earn $140,000 in base salary - and thats a starting salary for family medicine physicians. Specialtie...

Complaint Process Against Physicians

social justice in cases of civil liability, the health care consumer either files charges against the physician with the appropria...

Medical Ethics (Case Study Analysis)

see two broken femurs without any explanation whatsoever. Also, in the hospital, no one is asking why the child may have broken bo...

Organizational Leadership and Politics

ahead and enjoy the practices of the past (or those of recent government bailout recipients), but not to flaunt them too flamboyan...

Depression - General Overview

weeks in duration and exhibit at least five of the following symptoms: * You are depressed, sad, blue, tearful (Holisticonline.com...

Improving Organ Donation Through Clarification and Education

biology alone (Koppelman, 2003). It involves equally complex realms of metaphysics, social values, and religious beliefs (Koppelm...

Hospital Risk Management - Consent Forms

wrong way to think about it, instead, physicians should look at this "formality" as a way to communicate with the patient (Yale-Ne...

Proposal for an Addiction Treatment Center

Programs and Addiction Treatment Centers, 2007). Breaking addiction to these and other abused drugs often requires medical interv...

Adding an Athletic Trainer to the Sports Medicine Clinic

increase; third-party payers strive to keep payments as low as possible; individuals seek to enhance performance or gain the great...

Community Health Project/Diabetes Among Hispanics

in the US. Likewise, diabetes-associated nephropathy, a progressive disorder of the kidney, is the leading cause of end stage rena...

Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act and Physician Assisted Suicide

that declared physician-assisted suicide not to be an individuals constitutional right (Zanskas and Coduti 27). It was also in th...

Medical Jargon as a Communication Barrier

Bagley looks at the problem as rather simplistic and uses the example that it is just as easy to say that word kidney as it is to ...

Positron Emission Tomography (PET): The Potential Pitfalls of Reimbursement

availability of such reimbursement, however, comes the potential for certain pitfalls. Those pitfalls include the overuse of the ...

Against Euthanasia

in the last months of his life than he had been previously, and that was something he would have denied them, and himself, had the...

Physician Induced Demand: Examples From Obstretics

on physician induced demand. Turcotte, Robst and Polachek (2005) observe the relationship that exists between the cost of a servi...

Information Needs Of Doctors And Nurses

it comes to orders, medications, tests, transfers and so on. Another problem for both physicians and nurses is identifying all p...