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Three Articles on Issues Involving High Acuity Nursing Reviewed

may have produced the desired results, the issue of promoting healing in extremities is one that is difficult at best (Wound Care ...

Orem's Self Care Theory Application

overall, there is nonetheless a reduced life expectancy by as much as one-third, with increased chances of blindness, kidney disea...

Canada and the Social Problem of Childhood Obesity

greater importance are the collective changes in social structures and expectations that lead to increasingly sedentary lifestyles...

Native Americans and the Effects of Diabetes

The American Diabetes Association (2003) reports that individuals with diabetes are twice as likely to suffer from heart disease a...

Evaluating the Impacts of a Vegetarian Diet Proposal

health and that any perceived quality of life benefits are more related to ideology than scientifically demonstrable benefits deri...

Importance of Cardiac Action Potential

procedure not simply passive diffusion. Typically the cell membranes in a living organism are selectively permeable. That is the...

Impact of Stress on Diabetes

and Baron Josef von Mering removed the pancreas of a dog in 1889 to see if it were an essential organ. Their early attempts to fe...

Diabetes Mellitus, Type II

in the blood and is not properly transferred to the cells, the body begins to feel weak and fatigued from lack of energy (Type 2 D...

Discussion of Diabetes Mellitus

damaging kidney function, eyesight and having the very real potential of causing limb amputation. Genetically determined, diabete...

Diabetes and Families

CFAM. Structural Assessment Internal Structure The family as it exists today came into being in May 2004 when Joe and Jeann...

Marketing Analysis of the Joslin Diabetes Center

pregnancy management related to diabetes and a full range of endocrine services ("LM Hospital," 2005). Other services include var...

Hispanics and Diabetes Management

Have you had any experience in helping a friend or family member manage diabetes? The patient replied that she was not aware of...

Patients and Diabetes

of condition in terms of importance due the impact on lifestyle and ability to result in death is not treated correctly (King et a...

Type I Diabetes' Biochemistry

islet cells located in the pancreas (2005). Other endocrine autoimmunities are associated with this type, such as Addison disease ...

Increasing Spending to Hold Down Costs

decrease costs, which seems to be counter to increasing spending. Increasing spending on diabetic screening and testing, however,...

Employers' Tool for Healthcare Outcomes Management

that which takes his BMI past the boundary for obesity (Fontanarosa, 1998). Either condition is a leading contributor to poor hea...

Reviews of 8 Diabetes Education Articles

only one group, no control group. Group exposed to treatment and then measure (Creswell, 2003). Measured participants blood gluco...

Classifications and Treatment of Diabetes

(Wilson, Krakoff, and Gohdes, 1997). Its complications include urinary hypovolemia, electrolyte imbalance and extraordinarily hig...

Sponsorship of the Olympics and Social Issues

main advantage to sponsoring sports events is that the sponsorship can and should be used as a "catalyst for building corporate im...

Diabetes Education Expanded Lesson Plan

environment. That open system "interacts with internal and external stressors and is in a state of constant change, moving toward...

Uninsured Assistance

are intended to be marketing efforts for a variety of health services providers in the area. For a nominal fee, visitors can have...

Patient Education That Are Both Successful and Unsuccessful

of her post-polio syndrome left her unable to completely void her urine, which in turn led to the development of further UTIs. Da...

Description and Diagnostics of Diabetes Mellitus

"a heterogeneous disorder characterized by 2 pathogenic defects, impaired insulin secretion and insulin resistance. The resultant ...

Older Adults and Diabetes

is by far the most common form of the disease. In addition, it is common for those adults who develop the disease later in life t...

Children and Diabetes

done to various organs in the body: nerve damage which can lead to amputations; small blood vessel damage which that can lead to b...

An Article on Obesity, Diabetes, and the Effect of Estrogen Reviewed

instance, causes "rapid onset of severe hyperglycemia associated with the progressive loss of islet area and insulin immunoreactiv...

Polk County, Florida Diabetes Prevention Program Proposal

50.9% of the population ("Polk County Quick Facts," 2005). The population is 79.6 white ("Polk County Quick Facts," 2005). It seem...

HOW CIRCULATION OPERATES

be compared to a continuously looping freight train whereby deliveries are made on a regular basis without ever coming to a stop o...

Diabetes Education Lesson Plan

reason, who are newly diagnosed with Type II diabetes. The primary purpose will be to impress upon these patients the critical ne...

Black Community and the Epidemic Proportions of Diabetes

cells that are responsible for producing insulin. Although it can develop at any age, it is described as juvenile onset because m...