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Congestive Heart Failure

the kidneys are not capable of disposing "sodium and water" (American Heart Association, 2007); this is what cases the edema (Amer...

Adding MRI to the Orthopedic Practice

for its lack of market-changing competition (Porter and Teisberg, 2004), but competition exists nonetheless, if only indirectly. ...

Mandatory Staffing Ratios

between those who supported mandatory staffing ratios, based on research such as the study conducted by Linda Aiken, and the stanc...

Police Personality: Unique Traits Or Socialization And Experience?

and processes that are beneficial to understanding what has occurred and why. This leads directly to the final stage in the Kolb ...

Quality Nursing Care

whoever the client might be, that is, an individual, family, group or community. The third provision indicates that nurses are als...

Cosmetic Surgery in California

to essentially look younger than they are because in Southern California age is not considered attractive. Even men are turning to...

Period and its Impact on the Incidence of Deep Wound Infection in Diabetic Individuals Undergoing Open Heart Surgery

Researchers have identified nutrition as a significant factor in wound healing. In fact, it has been argued that nutritional elem...

Plastic Surgery in Contemporary Society

will not cover elective surgery, and so, those on the lower end of the economic spectrum cannot get a tummy tuck after their fifth...

U.S. Nursing Shortage

that they are often asked to take care of more patients with higher acuity levels than they have in the past (Hassmiller and Cozin...

High Nursing Turnover Rate

based on a research study that surveyed over 2,000 RNs who provide direct nursing care in three mid-western hospitals. This result...

Deep Wound Infection and Blood Glucose Levels: A Proposed Study

infections can, of course, relate to a number of factors. The type of care needed can vary both according to the type of wound an...

Deep Wound Infection and Blood Glucose Levels: A Proposed Study

not just in adverse impacts to the patients themselves but also in significant societal costs. Wounds that are improperly cared f...

Senior Citizen Surgery Patients and Risk Assessment

planning for postoperative care (Dunn 36). For example, if a patient suffers from poor lung function, that patient is at greater r...

Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy - Case Study

problems?] The pharmacology interventions target the patients different health conditions, such as high blood pressure and high c...

Topics in Sociology

their breasts enlarged, while Oriental women may have their eyes reshaped, and Jewish and Italian women have rhinoplasty (nose sur...

Plastic Surgery, Footbinding, and Violence Targeting Women

broken properly (Ping, 2002, p. 3). The practice existed in China for over 1,000 years, and spread from the imperial dynasty to ...

Surgery and Hypothermia

messages that initiate either warming or cooling responses to these deviations (Nicoll, 2002). Due to the fact that hypothermia ...

Cosmetic Surgery for Men

accessory that can make a man appear to be more "attractive powerful and masculine" (Fraser 77). Considering this new focus on co...

Personal Perspective on LASIK Surgery Pros and Cons

with adults at least age 21 who experience only minor visual distortion and who have no other eye problems (Cray et al., 1999). B...

Information on Statistics Selection

the center. These time records should include originating time; elapsed time between stages of the process of treating the patien...

Presurgical Anxiety Concept Analysis

like presurgical anxiety (Murphy, 1996). The total care coordinator identifies possible high-risk patients and supports the proce...

2000 Study 'Gender and Short-Term Recovery from Cardiac Surgery' Reviewed

(2000) reviews several reasons that women could have more difficulty in recovery - greater age at the time of surgery; increased c...

JCAHO Protocols and Wrong Site Surgery

site, taking into account "left/right distinction, multiple structures, and levels (as in spine surgery)" (Ritsma, 2004, p. 4). JC...

Elective Cholecystectomy Stress Levels Study

In seventeen pages this research paper examines the effects preoperative education has on patients electing to undergo elective ga...

Nursing Journal Article 'Assessing Sensory Blockade With Alcohol & Pinprick After Subarachnoid Block' II

In three pages this paper considers a journal article regarding surgical preparation of older men for prostate surgery. There is ...

Journal of Advanced Nursing Article 'An Exploratory Study of Recipients' Perceptions of Bone Marrow Transplantation' III

This paper consists of three pages and presents an article analysis involving post surgery and recovery investigation of patient r...

Treatment Alternatives for Parkinson's Disease

In four pages this paper examines pramipexole, fetal tissue implanting, and posteroventral medial pallidotomy surgery as alternati...

Analgesia and Anesthesia Uses in Infants

In twelve pages this paper analyzes using the drug fentanyl on neonates as a pain reliever during surgery or painful medical proce...

Medical Technology and Computers

In seven pages medicine and its computer history are considered with such concepts as telemedicine, computer aided surgery, and 'v...

Kant v. Aristotle on Ethical Issues Involving Performing Surgery That is Unnecessary to Return an Unfit Soldier to Combat

the ability to reason about things within itself, and understand mathematics and other theoretical sciences. The other listens to ...