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Obesity in the United Arab Emirates

the UAE (Join the movement to tackle obesity, 2004). The UAE is the fifth most obese nation in the world, following the "United St...

Family and Health Promotion

this indicates, family is incorporated into and valued within the realm of pediatric nursing practice as a factor that is crucial ...

The Challenges of Being an Advocate and Neutral Facilitator (Mediator)

Obviously, the relationship that is formed between a mental health advocate and his or her client is critical. This relationship ...

Homelessness, Mental Illness, and the Advocate Role

Housing is of obvious concern as is successful intervention in the destructive pattern of behavior that has led to the homelessnes...

Allocating Health Services

saving technology. This may seem cruel but the doctors and hospitals surely do not work for free and as such monetary issues are c...

DOES THE U.S. NEED HEALTH CARE REFORM?

States will cost a lot. There just isnt enough to do so. But Welch (2005) points out that a universal health care policy doesnt ha...

Global Warming and Global Health

global warming associated with an increase in environmental pollution from greenhouse gases could lead to an expanded range of ano...

Overview of Home Health Nursing Field

as business practices, documentation systems, process flows and lines of communication can differ (Blevins, 2001) Home health nur...

Health Care Pharmacists and How They Have Evolved

been favorable to increased privileges for pharmacists. This trend towards increased privileges are certainly understandable give...

Nursing and Statistics

which both of those impacts are important. The question of what statistics should be collected in a medical facility, however, is...

Human Behavior, Psychological, Sociological, and Biological FActors on Mental Health Care Delivery

promote recovery and to "replace unnecessary institutional care with efficient, effective community service that people can count ...

Heath Care Equal Access Support

advance at the time, but it created the scenario in which those receiving health care were not those paying for health care. As c...

American Health Care

over the decades--people can opt to purchase lower priced vehicles or do without. They may own homes and cars already. Life is aff...

Relationship Between Psychiatric Nurse and Patient

formulation with others, testing new behaviors, integrating this learning into "new, more satisfying behavior, and then using thes...

Health Care and Equal Access

advance at the time, but it created the scenario in which those receiving health care were not those paying for health care. As c...

Nursing Metaparadigms Explored

paradigms According to Parse (1987), the simultaneity paradigm of nursing offers a substantially different view worldview than th...

Qualitative Study 'Occupational Stress and Job Satisfaction in Mental Health Nursing: Focussed (sic) Interventions via Evidence-based Assessment' Reviewed

has been with us for several years, and it is widely publicized. The result is that the nursing shortage not only affects the qua...

Fragmented Systems and Managed Care

it actually created more problems than it solved? An Overview of Fragmentation Once upon a time, medicine was a fairly str...

Function and Role of Nurse Practitioners

the most frequently reported intervention classifications for NPs were patient education, drug management, nutrition support, risk...

4 Traditional Metaparadigms in Nursing

Under her wing, Nightingale took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to health. ...

Dept. of Health and Human Services' Organizational Structure

nurses and other hospital personnel spend more than 30 minutes doing paperwork for each hour they provide patient care (Brown, 200...

Health Care Systems, Population Subgroups, and Teen Pregnancy

in the United States alone, "the annual cost of teen pregnancies from lost tax revenues, public assistance, child health care, fos...

Metaparadigms and Nursing

and with others interacting with the patient. Mezirow (1991) promotes the use of critical reflection in building new knowle...

Health Care and Interdisciplinary Teams

a list of advantages for patients, which include: * Greater coordination of services leads to higher quality care for the patient ...

American Journal of Nursing Article 'Improved Rates of Compliance with Hand Antisepsis Guidelines: A Three-Phase Observational Study' Reviewed

efficiency is paramount. The problem is important for nursing study because (1) it is so pervasive, and (2) returning to ba...

Women and Orgasm

orgasms or pleasure had been routinely ignored. For many years it was routinely believed that there was no biological reason for a...

Health Care Service and 'Professional Power'

different forms such as verbally or in writing, however, the compliance with the request is also influenced by other factors, such...

The Dioxins as Lingering Agent Orange Problems

evidence". Agent orange has gained the most notoriety in its use as a defoliant in the Vietnam War. It has been the...

Abortion Issue and Midwives

unsafe by those who practice the procedure unskilled and unprepared for complications should they arise. So why do women still con...

Investors in a New Fitness Club

with the money to invest but the people who will back up the effort in the long run. In fact, Griffin (2000) comments that as imp...