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Refusal of Palliative Care/Bioethics

this incident may have contributed to her divorce. It is also true that her mother has had a problem with alcoholism for over twen...

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...

Article Critique/Perceptions of Palliative Care

(in English) between the years 1989 and 2004. The extent of the literature review appears to be sufficient to support the research...

Article Critique/Quality of Life/Palliative Care

founded on the perspective that patients who are cared for in the home are provided with an overall better quality of life (Peters...

The Transformation of Attitudes about Death and Dying

11 pages and 11 sources. This paper provides an overview of the transformation of views on death and dying in the 20th century. ...

Case Studies on Medical Care's Informed Consent

implied (Retsas and Forrester, 1995). Take the action of the patient who rolls up their sleeve to receive a shot for example (Ret...

Cancer Patients and Nursing

that is, whether it will spread (metastasize) and what symptoms that it is likely to cause (Cancer diagnosis, 2005). The term "sec...

Palliative Care and the Theory of Dorothea Orem

patient to re-establish the self-care capacity. Orems model defines a "self-care deficit" as when a patients condition interferes ...

Contemporary Nursing Ethics

this development and left orders for both analgesia and sedation, which helped at first, but became less effective as the hours pa...

The Ethics of Death and Dying: Is There a Duty to Die?

right to live if it is possible, one could well argue that it is never anyones duty to die. Battins essay, however, speaks of th...

Wit & Palliative Care

also a former student of Vivians is now in the rather awkward position of also being one of her doctors, as he is an intern and re...

Terminally Ill Patients and Palliative Care

"many emotional, medical, and practical needs. These needs change over time, depending on the trajectory of...

Palliative Care Environments and Massage Benefits

to assist in the process of migrating through the stages of ones particular challenges (What Is Hospice & Palliative Care? 2003)....

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...

Home Nursing and Palliative Care

In fourteen pages this paper considers home hospice in an examination of palliative care issues. Seven sources are cited in the b...

Community Health Nursing and Palliative Care

in the overall quality of care delivered by community health nurses (CHNs) is providing end-of-life care that is holistic and cong...

Palliative Care/Hospice Websites

This research paper investigates the quality of three sites that pertain to the medical specialty Palliative and Hospice care. Eva...

Refusal of Care: The Ethical Dimensions

refers to instances in which patients who have been admitted to a health care facility decide to refuse treatment from doctors (Lo...

END-OF-LIFE ISSUES IN TREATING CHILDREN: PEDIATRICS, PALLIATIVE CARE AND ETHICS

Though it isnt talked about much, pediatric end-of-life issues are those with which a healthcare leader must deal. End-of-life iss...

Ethics in Palliative Care

regarded as creating obligations on others to help her exercise her rights. An inherent theme that is implied in all of the questi...

The Importance of Hope in Palliative Care

are fatigued often have trouble dealing successfully with their illness. In this article Benzein and Berg note that "Hope, hopeles...

Communication and Palliative Care

the patient prior to his death. The nurse clearly felt the need to encourage the family to stay and spend as much time as possibl...

ACA Took Away Some Freedoms

Few stakeholders are satisfied with health care in America despite the fact that health care costs more than in any other develope...

Anthrax and its Bioethical Issues

tainted food, and results in severe gastrointestinal distress. Fatality is between 25 and 60 percent (Ressel 2001). THE HISTORY ...

The Health Care System in the United States and Access by Black Americans

have deleterious effects on the health outcomes of the residents in these areas. Many researchers have arrived at the same conclus...

Case Study Analysis of Environmentalist Ethics

are doing is unethical. Why? The majority of people are not environmental activists and they do not care about the trees. Of cours...

Bioethics Advanced Essays

This paper contains ten pages and discusses the complexities of bioethics by summarizing the biology of HIV and the disease produc...

Questions On Medical Ethics

further examined by comparing the moral reasoning with the stages laid down by Piaget, with more complex and mature reasoning only...

Adult Day Care in North Carolina

includes seniors centers focusing on social and wellness programs and activities, adapting healthcare needs to those standards rat...

Bioethics and Research

disease to spinal cord injuries" (Davis, 2005, p. 205). A patent pending in 2005, if granted, would have granted ownership rights ...