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Artificial Nutrition/hydration & Terminal Pediatric Patient

the insertion of a central line, threaded through a vein, and it was once believed that it would aid cancer patients, restoring ap...

Withholding Nutrition in the Terminally Ill Child

remaining days, weeks, months, or perhaps even years of their life. Pros...

How Euthanasia is Treated in New York

Laws that govern each of the named practices reflect a judgment call and they vary ("When Death is Sought" 49). Physicians often ...

Choosing Life, Spiritual Counseling

us departs from this world. It is our job to remain secure in our faith, praying incessantly that the will of God will unfold as i...

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...

Treating Youths - The Ethical Challenges

going unfilled. As a manager of JPS, Ive been asked to become a member of a project team dedicated to developing a plan to face t...

Article Critique/Where Terminally Ill Prefer to Die

that puts the topic of this study, as well as past research, within an appropriate philosophical framework. Tang then cites the ...

Social Responsibility, Terminally Ill Citizens, and Euthanasia

In five pages euthanasia is explored in terms of history, types, and issues of economics, living wills, and human rights....

Terminally Ill Children and Counseling

In seven pages the issues related to counseling a dying child patient and family members are examined. Twelve sources are cited i...

Adolescents Who Are Terminally Ill

In five pages 2 articles on HIV afflicted adolescents and their immune systems are examined. Two sources are cited in the bibliog...

Arguing in Favor of Euthanasia for Terminally Ill Individuals

In five pages the issues and practices of active and passive euthanasia are considered and argues that death should be regarded no...

Software for Health Information Management

The Clinical Workstation Application of the 3M(tm) Care Innovation Expert Applications system focuses on providing clinicians and ...

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...

Critical Incident Analysis in Nurse Management

and certainly health care facilities. In essence, the minimum requirements of nursing dictate that: * the nurse remain cognizant ...

Adding MRI to the Orthopedic Practice

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

Access to Care for Underprivileged, ESRD in NC

and Abecassis, 2010). Available treatments for ESRD and economics of treatment from an organizational perspective: The only trea...

Nursing Caring Theory

This essay focuses on Watson's nursing theory of caring. It reports and explains the meta-paradigms, caratives, and how nurses dev...

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...

Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: The Legal and Ethical Dimensions

or another, enter into ethical quandaries as a result of their regular operations. This is because virtually all organizational ac...

Paranoid Schizophrenia

potential need for treatment for impaired skin integrity due to immobility. Therefore, the nurse will begin precautions prior to a...

Healthcare Communication

Asynchronous communication is that which does not require the simultaneous direct attention of all involved. It can take the form...

Nursing Shortage & Patient Safety

established that nurses are often involved in the "timely identification of complications," which, if acted upon swiftly, prevent ...

Palliative Care Environments and Massage Benefits

to assist in the process of migrating through the stages of ones particular challenges (What Is Hospice & Palliative Care? 2003)....

A Review of Blaming the Victim by William Ryan

A 7 page overview of the societal ills of poverty. Ryan contends that is not the poor that are responsible for these ills but rat...

Home Nursing and Palliative Care

In fourteen pages this paper considers home hospice in an examination of palliative care issues. Seven sources are cited in the b...

The Healing Applications of the Hypnotic Technique

Hypnosis is sometimes regarded more as a parlor trick than as an effective approach to influencing human behavior and...

Community Health Nursing and Palliative Care

in the overall quality of care delivered by community health nurses (CHNs) is providing end-of-life care that is holistic and cong...

Palliative Care/Hospice Websites

This research paper investigates the quality of three sites that pertain to the medical specialty Palliative and Hospice care. Eva...

Theoretical Comparison of Hildgard Peplau and Dorothea Orem on Self Care Deficit

In seven pages this paper compares the self care deficit health care theories of Peplau and Orem in terms of similarities regardin...

Health Care Interdisciplinary Teams

patient, the attending nurse is seldom in the room at the same time. The attending physician may refer the patient to a cardiologi...