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Pittsburgh VA Heathcare and Uninsured

provided by the veterans administration (Medicine News, 2007). Nearly 13 percent of all veterans fall under the ban to services pe...

State Responsibility and International Law

In six pages this paper uses student submitted case information in an examination of aliens and state responsibility in an intern...

Starbucks Ethics

company that supplies bottled water is one example. It is estimated by 2010 Ethos, a firm which had the finding of safe drinking w...

Healthcare Communication

Asynchronous communication is that which does not require the simultaneous direct attention of all involved. It can take the form...

California Nurse-Patient Ratios

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

Two Business Decisions Concerning Ethics

36 known and confirmed copycat cases in the first month (Church, 1982). In looking at the way that the company dealt with the issu...

An Example of How a Decision under Uncertainty May Be Assessed in the Business Environment

has been built, and more potential customers are travelling away from the store (Kotler and Keller, 2008). One of the first appro...

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...

An Ethical Consideration of the Drug Companies

Drug companies are often criticized for unethical behavior. The writer considers the pharmaceutical companies from an ethical per...

Therapists Need Ethical Sense

This paper discusses how therapists and counselors develop an ethical identity, how do they develop an ethical sense, and what is ...

Supervisors Taking Credit

The ethical case presented and discussed in this paper is not an uncommon one. Many people have had this very same thing happened ...

Families and Therapeutic Goals Regarding Autism

"syndrome of behavioral deficits and excesses that have a biological basis but are nonetheless amenable to change through carefull...

U.S. Supreme Court, William N. Eskridge, and Lochner v. New York

(Findlaw, 2005). The employee worked as a baker, and baking at that time was a dangerous occupation: bakers inhaled quantities o...

Truth in Patient Care

"become a universal law" (Kant, 1993, p. 30). In other words, Kants main criteria for action is that the individual should conside...

Case Study of Patient Evaluation

The following are the five DSM-IV-TR Diagnoses based on the DSM Five-Axis determinations: Axis I: Alcohol dependence...

Setting Boundaries in the Therapeutic Relationship

welfare must be protected at a premium. If our definition of boundary violations, however, overlap our standard practices a dilem...

How Can Doctors Get Patients to Comply?

who "cheats" on his diet (1994). Doctors merely expect patients to comply with their dictums but this author says that some like S...

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 Nursing Perspective on Patient Mental Illness

This 15 page paper discusses seven patients who suffer from various forms of mental illness, and argues that there may be an under...

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...

Informed Consent and British Medical Law

upper house has, in fact, been in a state of suspended reform for almost a century - ever since the unelected Tory landowners who...

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...

Getting the Teenage Diabetic Patient to Comply

One of the main problems with teenage diabetes patients is getting the patient to comply with the diet and medication regimen. Thi...

Patient Teaching Plan on Diabetes and the Internet

In five pages this paper examines how the Internet can be used as a tool to teach patients how to manage the disease diabetes....

Health Care, Bigotry, and Prejudice

This paper considers various strategies that can be applied to prevent prejudicial relationships between health care workers and p...

Computerized Charting, Ethical and Legal Considerations

In six pages this paper examines the increased hospital use of computers to record charts of patients from ethical and legal persp...

Profit Generation and Business Ethics

In ten pages this paper discusses if a commercial organization's profit generation is adversely affected by moral or ethical busin...

Ethical Considerations Regarding Terminal Illness and Palliative Care

one, we become constantly reacquainted with the subject. The way that we deal with death varies on both an individual and a colle...

Ethics and Business Article Summary

require the ability to cope with new situations, and therefore more flexible and organic structures will require a greater utilisa...

Annotated Bibliography on Patient Restraint

physical restraints. The authors own views combined with the findings of current literature reveal that the use of physical restr...