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Controlling Asthma

Surveys suggest there are more asthma patients with uncontrolled asthma than patients themselves think. The Asthma and Allergy Fou...

Employee Development in the U.S. Army

possible. Additionally, the right people also must be in the right positions so that they want to remain where they are, growing ...

Article Critique/Hospice Patients/Symptom Intensity

incorporated into this study is extensive. The research team breaks this discussion into three subheadings: Assessment Congruence ...

Dementia Patient and Health Care

of dementia depend on the cause of the disease. However, in all senses of the definition of dementia, it is irreversible and will...

Home Health Agency Information Technology Upgrading

means of the company. Current Work Process Purpose of the Work Process The "home health" sector of the health care industry...

Stroke Patients and Nursing Case Management

Partially as a result of improved heath care practices which result in longer life and partially as the result of the movement aw...

COPD and Rehabilitation

symptoms so that they might seek help at the onset of a respiratory event and to acquaint them with the causes of their condition ...

Ethical Treatment of Patients and the 1975 Film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

some of the inmates to play poker with pornographic cards. He smuggles hookers in for several of the ward mates, and he threatens ...

Personal Electronic Patient Record

as long as they know whos records they are looking for and how to access them. The next stage from this that avoids the delays eve...

Patients with Suppressed Immune Systems and Basic Precautions

made of cotton or cotton blends, which absorb rather than repel fluids. One of the most important precautions that a nurse can t...

Chronicity & Illness Trajectory

refers to being allergic to multiple forms of stimuli. Chronic illness not only impacts the patient, but also the patients family ...

Ethics, Blood Transfusions & Jehovah's Witnesses

be immensely helpful in gaining insight into the specific issues involved and subsequent perspective on what course of action to t...

Examination of Beneficence/For the Patient's Good

long after all signs of consciousness have ceased. Is this "good"? Is this beneficent? The news tells us of parents confronting me...

Memory Deficits Due To Alzheimer's

illustrated how certain aspects such as genetics, disease and environment diversely impact the extent of human memory, with old ag...

Alzheimer’s and Therapeutic Recreation

2001). Current theory suggest that the disease initiates the internal cell-death programs which exists in neuronal cells (Marx, 2...

Breast Cancer Research & Ethics

personal opinion can affect human behavior, and the frequently complicated nature of ethics complications in cancer research. It a...

Patients’ Bill of Rights

is designed to ensure that "Patients have access to needed care" and that healthcare providers are "free to practice medicine with...

Exposure of Sanitation Workers to Disinfectants in a Hospital Environment

and staff. Of lesser concern have been the indirect impacts of disinfectant use, including the risk to the sanitation workers due ...

Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP)

factors that have been identified include "diabetes, alcoholism, malnutrition, history of antibiotic or corticosteroid use, decrea...

Nursing Leadership, Advocacy & Responsibilities

Leadership and management while related are two distinctively different concepts. Leadership can be discerned from simply manageme...

The Kidneys and Renal Failure

"three important hormones: erythropoietin ... or EPO, which stimulates the bone marrow to make red blood cells; renin, which regul...

Proximity to Nephrologist and Mortality Among Hemodialysis Patients

nephrologists can be a particularly concerning factor in health care outcome. Methods...

Article Critique/Online Cancer Support Groups

these elements were viewed as variables that could significantly influence patients attitudes(Im, et al, 2007, p. 706). This quest...

The Impact of Culture in Medical Care

"how they relate to others. It influences the way patients respond to medical services and preventive interventions and impacts th...

Patient Falls, Patient Safety and Communication

This paper is made up of three sections, with each section pertaining to a significant hospital administration issue. These topics...

Article Review on Skin Care

In a paper of three pages, the author reflects on an article entitled: Providing Patients with Information on Caring for Skin. T...

Adverse Effects to Antipsychotic Drugs

a fever, and a variety of other symptoms (Boyd, 2008). It is the variety of symptoms associated with NMS that become a significant...

Jet Blue Airlines: A Case Analysis

to pull itself out of the mire that constitutes the greatest economic recession since the fabled stock market crash of 1929, nearl...

Psychotic Discourse Framing Analysis

were a child answering her mother (Ribeiro 80). The great playwright William Shakespeare was a keen observer of human behavior, ...

Patient's 'Right to Die' and the Legality of Nursing Responsibility

through the administration of pain medication. It is not to end that suffering through medically-induced suicide. In fact, the C...