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Essays 1921 - 1950

Depression and Pain Relationship and Chi Square Test Assessment

analysis. Making use of a sample of 100 patients, the test group is made up of 60 depressed patients with reflex sympathetic dystr...

Quality of Life and the Role of Nursing

Conroy and Nottoli (1999) report the case of Henry, an irascible octogenarian who easily was the most difficult patient in the ski...

A Needs Assessment for Diabetes Education in New York City

provide the physician interface. Beyond these duties are the operational and administrative duties required in this type of facil...

Study on Health Status and Participation Critiqued

evaluating information (including assumptions and evidence) related to the issue, considering alternatives ... and drawing conclus...

Adolescent Type I Diabetes Care Plan

much sugar remains in the blood and too little energy is transferred to other cells. The diabetic needs to take externally adminis...

Health Care and Paternalism vs. Autonomy

can be tricky. There are always hypochondriacs or the medically educated who do not necessarily agree with the doctors findings. P...

Nursing Reflections

biochemistry. I recognized the wonder of chemistry, but what I failed to recognize at the time was the solid practice it gave me ...

Overview of EMDR Therapy

EMDR therapists assert that the treatment is suitable for a wide range of disorders; that it is much quicker than other forms of...

Overview of Chicago's Edward J. Hines Jr. Hospital

a reputation for efficiency and effectiveness, as well see later on in this paper. The hospital was named in honor of Edwa...

Emotions Effects on Cancer

system to destroy abnormal cells. Hormone production is directly connected to psychological states. Countless women can attest to ...

Nailbiting and CBT

most pragmatic and meaningful of treatments in terms of how it shows where and how a person may have distorted thoughts regarding ...

Neonatal Circumcision and Pain Management and Assessment

still exists as to the necessity and long-term benefits of circumcision. Virtually all agree that if circumcision is to be done, ...

Managed Care and Disabilities Models of Medi Cal

have different health care needs than their non-disabled counterparts (Donegan Shoaf, 1999). Medi-Cal is one such health c...

Nursing and Chronicity

particular, resilience is also crucial because each instance is completely unique and may require a different response. In other ...

Psychoanalysis Spoofed by Jay Haley

to be an essential element in the overall aspect of human life. Without its influential element, myriad individuals would not be ...

Prescribing Nurses and the Treatment of Wounds

in which nurses had to request perceptions for certain types of dressing was a waste of time and resources, which in turn impacted...

HIV and AIDS Survey Protocols

Over twice as many people have been infected with HIV than was initially projected; over 42 million people have been infected sinc...

History and Recommendations for Advanced Directives

Mr. Schiavo finally was allowed the right to have his wifes feeding tube removed, the right to allow her to die of lack of nutrien...

'Proper' Alternative of Euthanasia

what is tantamount to a death sentence, because of the "uncertain definition of suicide in the context of a terminal illness" (Mar...

Trauma Uses for Colloids and Crystalloids

Crystalloids and colloids are coming into use for trauma cases where fluids are being used for resuscitation. This paper gives a g...

New Budget Devising

of revenues, and it is likely lower. Allowing 35 percent food cost, however, the cost of operations including labor should not ex...

Advanced Practice Nursing Care and Ida Jean Orlando's Theory

to identify and to relate in terms of actual patient care. Ida Jean Orlando created a conceptual view of the nursing process whic...

Professional Nursing and Theory

are licensed individuals who go through at least one year of formal education in addition to clinical instruction, and the focus o...

A Case Study in Alcoholism, Diagnosis and Treatment

after which he began drinking again. After this, the patient demonstrated a desire to poison himself, and this resulted in his ow...

Case Study on Mechanical Ventilation

authors isolated the following recurring elements, in order of their statistical appearance in the definitions [1]: Violence, forc...

Consideration of Medical Negligence

In ten pages medical negligence is considered with such cases as 1957's Bolam v. Friern HMC and 1997's Bolitho v. Hackney HA refer...

Medical Doctors and Nurse Practitioners Conflict Management

the elderly. The Nurse Practitioner announced in its July 2000 issue that reports of the AMAs petition had been received as...

Nursing and Family's Role

caused by the illnesses the may then have a negative physiological backlash on the patient. For other condition it may be the ro...

Cancer Support Groups and Remedial Model Usage

in groups created by the reciprocal model and attention is given to both ideas and feelings (1990). The needs of the group members...

Overview of Congestive Heart Failure

primary function is to "pump blood coming into the ventricles from the lower pressure venous system against the higher pressure ar...