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of the United States. Without the philosophies of those that lived in the centuries prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence...
practical science that help guide behaviour (Laudon, 1995). This may appear very detached from information technology, ho...
we may wish to consider, for instance, if the testing of an athlete may be seen as ethical, and why bother with the testing anyway...
business will perform in the future. The accounting information and its use is the measure which can determine whether a business...
of stem cell research far outweigh the negativities. Because of these benefits stem cell research can be ethically defended utili...
decisions. It is through our status as health care professionals that such a role is not only valued but critical. Nursing...
is on a morphine drip to which there is attached only one instruction: decrease the drip when respirations reach four per minute....
of happiness, contentment or relief, or something above ordinary existence. The patient should do more than subsist. 4. Care shoul...
or state agencies may seek and implement studies. II. Nursing Home Care for the Elderly Whenever nursing home care is an...
are ideally suited to assist patient and their families in clarifying their needs and desires, enhancing patient autonomy (Breier-...
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...
including a primary pipeline that extends 280 miles across the Andes. To build the roads, forests were cleared and Indian lands bu...
Conroy and Nottoli (1999) report the case of Henry, an irascible octogenarian who easily was the most difficult patient in the ski...
undergoes surgery for a hip arthroplasty 24 hours after admission. Twenty-four hours after surgery the nurses note that Mrs. Gale...
1999). Lee and his family owned a small business and had no health or medical insurance. The family was urged to begin the process...
for nurses who come into intimate contact with clients from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. Ott, Al-Khadhuri and Al-Junaibi...
proposed method of resolution is to design, develop and evaluate a clinical, evidence-based "diabetic education program to increas...
lethal drug is given with the intent to bring about death, thus ending suffering" (28). Of course, there is a difference between ...
and safety" (ANA, 2005). After all, if a nurse does not take steps to preserve her or his own safety, the nurse cannot adequately ...
one else to do them and she saw a need (Krain, 2002). "She recruited another nurse and began working out of a fifth floor apartmen...
?19a-490, Connecticut Department of Public Health Code ?19-13-D105 and Residential care homes ?19-13-D-6 (National Academy for Sta...
by the caring physical presence of this nurse in her last remaining hours. However, the way in which this case turned out saw the ...
if this is non bias is present in reality it should be reflected in the way fathers rights are interpreted. However, in UK law and...
expected to develop some form of cancer "or another rapidly debilitating condition and well be dead within a year of getting the d...
to nursing practice in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), as the welfare of each high-needs baby is intrinsically tied to fami...
ensure that any data given is not capable of identifying any of the respondents, although this is unlikely, there is also the way ...
found on the Internet is accurate. As researching a topic using a Web browser is simply a matter of using a handful of keywords, t...
In six pages this paper discusses the importance of the quality of life and how the medical industry can become humanized by valui...
2010). The first provision of the ANA code specifies that nurses should show "compassion and respect" in regards to the "dignity, ...
primary symptoms of COPD are "wheezing, cough, dyspnea on exertion and increased phlegm production" (Touhy and Jett, 2012, p. 289)...