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This research team selected homeless adolescents as the focus for their study. While, in general, the concept that informed parent...

of literature about biomedical ethics relative to patient autonomy. This type of autonomy is limited, at best, with managed health...

In this paper we will look at some of these macro environmental changes including changes in the demographics of workers, such as ...

patient (Seidel, 2004). This author also states that effective communication is something that can and must be learned (Seidel, 2...

expectancy is increasing and more people are surviving serious illness and living longer with chronic illness. At the same time, t...

workers (Center for American Progress, 2007). Something must be done. Universal health care has been proposed by many politicians...

families often have little access to health care services (Bauman, Silver and Stein, 2006). In many cases, access is provided thro...

healthcare services to senior citizens, which is an at-risk population in this country. One helping approach for people with dis...

(Jennings, 2005). The reason for the huge increases in health care costs is not the insurance companies, Jennings found, but the f...

to focus on the therapeutic relationship. Counselor C, who is a biblical counselor, rejects all secular approaches and turns to Sc...

conversation with MaryAlice Mowry," 2003). Many people do not realize that government benefits aligned with disabilities would be ...

the nurse is uncertain of which tasks are appropriate to delegation, as well as the skill level of UAPs, their reluctance becomes ...

(2003) gives the example of an nurse assigned to a busy intensive care unit (ICU) began experiencing clear signs of traumatic stre...

because they do not have the means to get medical attention (Center for American Progress, 2007). Health care costs seem to rise e...

agony? Medicine was not always the assembly line it is today. According to Pescosolido and Boyer, there were three events that ch...

agony? Medicine was not always the assembly line it is today. According to Pescosolido and Boyer, there were three events that ch...

gum disease in one form or another (Cardiovascular Week, 2005). Gingivitis is the first step of periodontal disease. The...

Stress is one of the most common mental health problems in the world. It is also a catalyst for numerous physical ailments, many o...

This paper pertains to health campaigns that address foodborne illness, and focuses on the USDA's "Be Food Safe" campaign. The wri...

This paper analyzes an article by Suzanne B. Johnson that discusses the paradigm shift in health care away from the biomedical mod...

This research paper begins with a discussion of various definitions of "health," then the writer sifts to a literature review and ...

Improving the health of employees is a valuable endeavor because the healthier they are the more productive they are. Johnson & Jo...

This is the manual mental health care professionals use for diagnostic and informational purposes. The manual lists mental health ...

include an understanding of how insulin functions to control glucose levels and the interaction between variables that can affect ...

interests and values considered and respected in the decision-making process" (Fly and Johnstone, 2002). This rationale is undoubt...

nurses are part of this generation and a large majority of nurses are retiring. It has been estimated that 50 percent of the count...

quality and safety for the care they can expect to receive from nurses and midwives and other health professionals are the same" (...

Sometimes the ability to perform foot self-exams for follow-up education or acute illness (Nettles, 2005, p. 44). Additionally, ...

task forces, committees, and organizational projects," while also serving as "resources to other nurses to facilitate advancing sk...

many of the findings of nursing research have little or no relevance to their daily practice. Im and Meleis (1999) cite several re...