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Withholding Treatment and Ethical Issues Pertaining to Nursing

In four pages this paper examines the ethics of withholding treatment in the form of hydration and nutrition from patients who are...

Assisted Suicide, Ethics, and Nursing

way, before his mind too, was gone." As a nurse, this presented me with what I felt were two conflicting goals. On the one hand, ...

Terminally Ill Patient, a Nurse's choice Not to Resuscitate, and the Resulting Lawsuit

In six pages this nurse's job loss is examined in terms of the reasons behind it after her failure to save a terminally ill patien...

Hospice Care, Dying, and Death

In three pages a nursing perspective is applied to a hospice program that deals with terminal patients through investigative resea...

Terminal Illness and Counseling

In fifteen pages this research paper discusses how psychologists, clerics, physicians and nurses can counsel patients who are term...

Standard Coronary Bypass and MIDCAB Benefits

In eight pages this literature review emphasizes the benefits of the minimally invasive MIDCAB direct coronary bypass surgical pro...

1991 Film The Doctor

This reaction paper consists of 6 pages and examines the film based upon surgeon Dr. Edward Rosenbaum's real life story of how his...

Relationship Between Patient and Doctor and Managed Care

In eight pages this paper examines the HMO model in a discussion of managed care and its impact upon the relationship between doct...

Death and Coping

In six pages the role of nurses in the patient process of dying is considered in two scenario types that also involves caring for ...

Elderly Patients and Minimizing Physiological and Psychosocial Tracheal Tube Stresses

In five pages this paper discusses the postoperative stresses that are represented by tracheal tubes particularly as they involve ...

Terminally Ill Patients and Hospital Resource Allocation Ethics

In four pages this paper considers terminally ill patients, space making allocation, and the ethical dilemmas that surround this d...

Alcohol Treatment Therapy and Issued Involving Lesbian and Gay Patients

In seven pages this paper examines alcoholism treatment of homosexual patients in a consideration of various counselor issues. Fo...

Chemical Dependency Assessment

In eleven pages this research paper examines how assisting a patient that has a problem with chemical dependency is assessed with ...

Reviewing an Article on a Psychiatrist's Socio Legal Responsibilities

In two pages an article that appeared in the World Press Review in which the author discusses the social and legal responsibilitie...

Overview of Executive Nursing

In nine pages executive nursing is examined in a discussion of their many concerns regarding the industry itself, patient care, an...

Freedom of Choice for Patients and Managed Health Care

In seven pages this paper examines freedom of choice options for patients and how they are affected by managed health care. Six s...

Walt Whitman vs. Emily Dickinson

each individual word. Yet, paradoxically, poetry is that art form in which what is unsaid is often as important--or more importan...

The Need for Quicker Lab Results

whether or not a patient complaining of chest pains is having or has had a heart attack (American Clinical Laboratory Association,...

Healthcare and the Dangers of Nosocomial Infections

services. However, the greatest cost of all has been to human life, because nosocomial infections have resulted in patient deaths...

END-OF-LIFE PLANNING, NURSING AND GUIDANCE

to provide adult individuals, at the time of inpatient admission (or enrollment) information about state laws rights concerning ad...

Big Pharma Exposed

grew from an average of seven in 1993 to an average of eleven in 2000 to an average of twelve in 2004 (Critser, 2007). At the tim...

Health Care Staff Shortages

nurses by 2012 to eliminate the shortage (Rosseter, 2009). By 2020, the District of Columbia along with at least 44 states will ha...

CULTURALLY COMPETENT CARE AND HOLY REDEEMER

culturally competent care. Well examine what the literature has to say about such standards and, with this background, and an unde...

Type II Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease

In two pages cardiovascular disease and the complications it represents for patients suffering from Type II diabetes are discussed...

Illness and Culture in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent by Julia Alvarez

differences between cultures consist of variation in their main pattern in terms of these five dimensions and that these differenc...

The Trial by Franz Kafka

that it is impossible for a mere individual to resist the monolithic nature of an authoritarian state, also can be interpreted on ...

Ethics in Palliative Care

regarded as creating obligations on others to help her exercise her rights. An inherent theme that is implied in all of the questi...

The NHS as a Model of Healthcare

by many the local and national government ought to have a more important role in the healthcare of the nations. As early as 1900 t...

Quality Indicators and Nurse/Patient Ratios

literature and also "analysis of ICD-9-CM codes," which were reviewed by a "clinician panel," offering specific IQs that address i...

Managed Care and its Impact on Poor/Minority Patient Care

Concepts, theories, principles and practices in managed care and the health services industry in regards to social, economic, and ...