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Personal Philosophy of Nursing

individual is an "open system," which includes "distinct, but integrated physiological, psychological and socio-cultural systems" ...

Negligence Or Malpractice?

results from the diagnostic test; as such, the case definitely leans toward malpractice. Two glaring points that support this cha...

Rapid Response Team: Quick Recognition And Intervention Of Problems At Va Medical Centers

being more capable of acting proactively and preventively. The philosophy of nursing is something much grander and more complex t...

Security Training Program

Great Healthcare Medical Center will be trained in all aspects of every security need of the hospital. This will focus on physica...

California Medical Law Case

the patient (Overview of California Civil Lawsuit Filing Procedures, n.d.). This restriction may or may not apply in Dr. Sanders ...

Should The United States Legalize Medical Marijuana Use?

of such states as Montana (Anonymous, 2005), Rhode Island (Roman, 2006) as well as Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Ne...

U.S. Health System

U.S. healthcare system is dangerous and lethal. That is a fact already confirmed by the data cited from Cortese and Smoldt (2005)....

Informed Consent and Honoring Directives

Accepted practice is to use any routine tool available, which means that a patient whose kidneys have ceased to function will be p...

Medical Use of Marijuana Should Be Legalized

the listeners understanding of the fact that fever is a typical sign of infection, though obviously its not the only one; nor is i...

Medical Malpractice Statute Of Limitation

for a defined period of time" (Morgan, 2006). The 7 year time period applies when a case could not be discovered because of fraud ...

A Sociological Look at Epilepsy

other words, the symptoms are treatable, but it is sometimes difficult to cope with the stigma and how people look at someone affl...

Death Definition That is Currently Accepted

once again began drawing air into his lungs illustrates how this is not necessarily a definitive component of being dead. As such...

Medical Coding and Billing

considered the field as a whole, and shown that it is a growing profession with significant job possibilities, the student should ...

Nursing as an Integral Part of the VA Medical Center at Asheville

(Waller, 2006). Not only is customer satisfaction rated higher than it is on a general scale, the death rate is somewhat lower as ...

Medical Jargon as a Communication Barrier

Bagley looks at the problem as rather simplistic and uses the example that it is just as easy to say that word kidney as it is to ...

U.S. and Japan Health Care

(Wise, 2005). One of the major health issues in the U.S. and other Western countries is obesity (Wise, 2005). It is estimated tha...

Etiology and Pathophysiology of Lung Cancer

cancer being observed (Wynder, Goodman and Hoffman, 1985). They also suggest that schools should place "major emphasis" on program...

Whole Foods or Vitamin Supplements in Treating Hepatitis B

of vitamin supplements results in the extraction of vitamins and the loss of enzymes or coenzymes that exist in foods naturally. ...

An Application to a University's School of Allied Health Professions

coding specialist - is accounted for differently than that of direct labor, and there is no employer arrangement whereby the physi...

Integrated Medical Billing and Management Software, and the Current Life Cycle Stage

The next stage is the market introduction stage there will be low level sales. The people purchasing the product are likely to be ...

Transformational Leadership and Change

others being inspirational leadership, intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration (Bryant, 2003). As this suggests...

Proper Disposal of 'Sharps'

concerning the safe disposal of sharps (Diabetes Monitor, 2006). Many healthcare facilities, particularly those serving diabetic p...

Falls and Senior Citizen Patients

that are often incurred as a natural part of the aging process (Wang and Wollin, 2004). These changes include "impaired vision and...

Technology, Mother Nature, and Ethics

term, or hire a human incubator, or go through various forms of testing and treatments to try to conceive a baby naturally, but so...

Nursing Perspective on the Issue of Living Organ Donation

however, Jones requested an ethics consult on the case due to the fact that Johns psychosocial evaluation had caused Jones to have...

Computerized Health Records in the Military and an Annotated Bibliography

are being planned and how the system is already being extensively used. This allows medical personnel to spend more time on care d...

ICT and its Contemporary Life Impacts

two areas that have seen a high input form ICT. The subject area is so broad we cannot look at the entire are in only a few page...

Internet Health Information Resources and Their Reliability

Also, one may want to call the government facility to gain information about things like birth defects, specific symptoms or disea...

Arguing in Favor of Legalizing Marijuana for Medical Uses

Public sentiment therefore leaves room for the possibility of legalization. Legalization can, in fact, be justified when we consi...

Various Factors That Contribute to Obesity

care physician (Ridings, Rapp, Boosalis, and Pomeroy, 1998). Millions of Americans, in fact, can be classified as obese. Obesity...