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Teaching about Breast Cancer

prefer the least invasive surgical option, others prefer the traditional approach (Katz and Hawley, 2007). Therefore, a major topi...

Nursing Home Care and the Effects of Mandatory Continuation of Nursing Education

nursing care over the past decade and how do they support the argument for a continuum of educational practices for nursing profes...

Social Systems Theory and Foster Care

physical and social limits, functional components, and feedback mechanisms" (Reicherter and Billek-Sawhney, 2003). With regard t...

A Critique of Two Ariticles Pertaining to Cardiac Step Down Units

it is discovered that her death was called by a massive pulmonary embolism. Two years later, her husband files suit against the n...

Medicaid/Long-Term Care

why. First of all, the student researching this topic does not offer any indication of what specific "everyday life issues" were...

Critical Modality of Humor

In three pages this research paper discusses how humor can be a modality that assists nurses in patient care as well as self care....

Ethics of a Two-Tier Health System

medically necessary services provided by hospitals and doctors must be insured;"5 * Universality - ensures uniform terms and condi...

Kolcaba and Holistic Care

reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...

Palliative Care and the Theory of Dorothea Orem

patient to re-establish the self-care capacity. Orems model defines a "self-care deficit" as when a patients condition interferes ...

Cancer Patients and Nursing

that is, whether it will spread (metastasize) and what symptoms that it is likely to cause (Cancer diagnosis, 2005). The term "sec...

Overview of Critical Care Nurse Practitioner

a specialized body of knowledge, skills and experience that enables these nurses to offer a high standard of care to critically il...

Dorothea Orem and Florence Nightingale on Nursing Theories, Beliefs, and Values

prepared for this role" (McKenna, 1997, p. 87). Perhaps most significant of all was Florence Nightingales belief that env...

Adolescent with Fatigue, A Case Study

This paper analyzes the care prevailed for Lucy, an adolescent college student who is diabetic and complaining of fatigue. Diagnos...

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...

Health Outcomes in the Inner Cities

in 2001 (Griggs and Bazie, 2002). The median household income dropped across the board, including all racial-ethnic groups with t...

Updated Gannt Chart Stop Smoking

The positive health benefits of quitting begin within minutes of the last smoke. The positive health outcome continue each year, s...

Utilizing Electronic Patient Records Systems

pilot studies 1. Introduction The potential benefits of technology in the health industry are enormous. In the past the use ...

Community Health Project/Diabetes Among Hispanics

in the US. Likewise, diabetes-associated nephropathy, a progressive disorder of the kidney, is the leading cause of end stage rena...

Economic and Political Perspectives on Health, Aging, and Utilization of Health Services

but much of the cost is a simple reflection of the fact that medical science is keeping people alive longer than it has in previou...

Health Data Interactive and the National Center for Health Statistics

This paper explores human longevity as pictured by government statistics. Why is human longevity increasing at the same time dise...

Factors Influencing Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Relation to Health Education

behavioral choices or at-risk status have been indicated. Q-2) What are some barriers to health promotion in your own community?...

Children's Dental Health and Public Health Policy

not view dentistry as very important. Some citizens see it as optional, but oral health is anything but. Apparently, citizens need...

Oxford Health's Management Operations

In one page a January 1998 article by Jim Champy featured in Computerworld entitled 'What Went Wrong at Oxford Health?' is summari...

Article Review of 'Health Inequalities and the Health of the Poor' by Gwatkins

"...it must also be recognized that, although the health sector is not necessarily the most important channel for dealing with ine...

Case Study of the United Kingdom's National Health Service Direct and Mental Health Provision

the telephone as well as the Internet and walk in centres, to answer queries form patients in the effort to reduce the number of v...

Developed Country's Health Plan and Bill Clinton's Health Plan Compared

The changes that have occurred in healthcare over the last few years make it obvious that if healthcare representatives are to do ...

World Health Organization and Global Health Issues

most pressing concern was a thorough assessment of the health issues and problems throughout the world and to suggest ways of deal...

Business Plan for a Health Club Vitamin and Health Food Store

only needs to ask the clientele how much they would appreciate having a full service food caf? and vitamin store right alongside t...

Oral Health is Linked to Overall Health

gum disease in one form or another (Cardiovascular Week, 2005). Gingivitis is the first step of periodontal disease. The...

Importance Of Good Health, Emphasis Oral Health

reported that periodontal disease is a cause of low birth weight. Delta Dental stated their research suggests that oral infections...