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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...

Treatment Sequence for Attending to an Unconscious Patient with Suspected Poisoning

Treating non responsive patients presents challenges. This paper looks at the approach to treatment and sequence which should be u...

EBP Approach to Substance Abuse Disorders

This 3 page paper provides an overview of how Evidence-based practice is used to treat substance abuse disorders. This paper inclu...

Noncompliant Patients Due to Culture

The United States has become more and more diverse over the last four decades and that diversity continues to expand. Different cu...

Cranberry and the Treatment of Urinary Tract Infections

This paper concludes that because at least one study questions its effectiveness, cranberry should probably not be the only treatm...

Treatment in Home and in Hospital for Acute Conditions Advantages and Disadvantages

level of problems for inpatients was 20.9% compared to only 8.4% for outpatients (Wilson et al, 2002). When asked to rate the serv...

Pediatric Patient Catheterization

Sometimes just the opposite can occur and the bladder does not empty like it should, if at all. Other problems that seem to be ass...

Nonadherence to Medical Instructions: Walker and Avant

issue via conceptual analysis, inasmuch as Walker and Avant provide specific steps that allow one to wholly define the ambiguous a...

Prostate Cancer and Quality of Life

& McCorkle (2002) did not explicitly state any research problem or research question, but they do identify two objectives for thei...

Assisting in Grief Counseling

left to deny anything connected with the loss, either before or after the fact. Those left behind also need to acknowledge the me...

Prevention and Management of Constipation

healthcare provider to assess the potential risk of constipation and helping to get preventative measures (Campbell et al, 2001). ...

Reflective Practice And Research In Social Work

trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception required within the sensual world is decidedly uniq...

Feeding Tube Legal Memo

449.570 life-sustaining treatment is defined as any "medical procedure or intervention that, when administered to the patient, se...

Underwater Forms of Life and Their Coral Reef Survival Link

When the coral reefs are damaged or otherwise sickly, they fail to have the strength or ability to tend to the myriad flora and fa...

Right to Die and Government Spending Limitations

This paper presents the argument in nine pages that the government is earmarking too much spending on the preservation of terminal...

Patient Autonomy and Nursing Concept Analysis

are ideally suited to assist patient and their families in clarifying their needs and desires, enhancing patient autonomy (Breier-...

ICU Patients and Communication

"ICU syndrome" (Elliot and Wright, 1999). In its milder form, ICU syndrome was characterized by the presence of confusion and memo...

Adding MRI to the Orthopedic Practice

for its lack of market-changing competition (Porter and Teisberg, 2004), but competition exists nonetheless, if only indirectly. ...

Chronicity & Illness Trajectory

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

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...

Ethical Position Paper on Advance Directives, Ethical Decision-Making and Utilitarianism

wishes, she would remain on life support. This scenario has several ethical implications from the nursing or medical professional...

Family Values/ICU Environment

and the church" and encompasses "spirituality, social support, and traditional, non-biomedical health and healing practices," whic...

Depression: To Medicate Or Not

2004). This is to say nothing of the side effects that accompany every drug manufactured to treat depression. Contrastingly, hol...

Assessing the Success of an IT Implementation in a Healthcare Setting

The writer presents a paper which looks at the implementation of electronic patient records for a company providing medical care f...

Assessment of a Bundle of Healthcare Services for Patients with Dementia

why this population may be seen as particularly vulnerable. The paper will then look in detail at the service offered, and then co...

Chemical Dependency Issues

the substance replaces recreational social or occupational activities (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). * The continuing u...

Persistent Vegetative State Patients and Ethical Decision Making

the balloon, and certain gestures, were definite responses to the environment and evidence of consciousness, but the doctors disag...

Prostate Cancer and Quality of Life

cancer affects both the man and his life partner. In most cases, study designs addressing quality of life issues for prostate canc...

The English Patient/Theme of Nationalism

blank slate for the imaginings of those around him, particularly Hana. Myth "crosses international boundaries and offers apparentl...

Life and Times of Vlad Tepes, the Original Dracula

out of the hands of Vlad the III. (Vlad 1996) Vlad III eventually did manage to regain the thrown of Walachia by conspiring with...