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Computerized Charting, Ethical and Legal Considerations

In six pages this paper examines the increased hospital use of computers to record charts of patients from ethical and legal persp...

Supporting Life and Costs Both Financial and Emotional

In five pages this research paper considers comatose or vegetative patients and the financial and emotional costs of sustaining li...

Postoperative Patients with Breast Cancer and Self Image

This paper discusses the importance of self image in terms of society and the individual in this examination of postsurgery patien...

Considerations Involving Medical Data

In five pages this paper examines the problems posed by electronic medical information and the assistance offered by SISTeM in ter...

Pediatric Patients and the Use of Drugs Like Tetracycline

In seven pages this paper examines pediatric patients in a consideration of research regarding the uses of such drugs as tetracycl...

Patient Treatment and the Hierarchy of Needs Model of Abraham Maslow

In eight pages this paper examines the hierarchy of needs model developed by Abraham Maslow and how it can be applied to patient t...

Hypothetical Letter to a Mental Patient

the first place: it was your brothers wicked fiance Isabella who had dreamt up such nonsense in the first place, and convinced you...

DNR Orders and Medical Ethics

In six pages this report considers medical ethics and the impact of 'do not resuscitate' orders upon patients, their families, the...

Suicide and Patients with AIDS and HIV

not to endure that process or cause their loved ones to have to experience it with them. The impact of the loss of personal autono...

Adult Patients and Effects Of Hospitalization

In eight pages adult patients who believe they need to be hospitalized are discussed regarding the effects of this hospitalization...

Insurance Companies, Health Professionals, and HMO

In ten pages this paper examines the issues involving health care professionals and insurance companies as they relate to HMO and ...

Organ Donation and PVS Patients

In five pages this paper considers whether or not the organs of patients who are in a persistent vegetative state should be donate...

In Home Cancer Treatment

In a paper consisting of six pages the growing trend towards treating cancer patients at home rather than at a medical facility is...

Dementia Patient Aggression Treated Nonpharmacologically

patients, and as such may not be as acceptable or desirable (Saltzman, 1985). Other limiting factors in the use of drugs c...

Cancer Support Groups and Remedial Model Usage

in groups created by the reciprocal model and attention is given to both ideas and feelings (1990). The needs of the group members...

Younger Victims of Stroke and Depression

This paper examines the stroke recovery of young patients and the effects of depression in twelve pages. Six sources are cited in...

Software Development and Ethics

desire to increase revenue to allow further development and facilitate increased benefits to the users. The errors may not be as s...

Patient Care and Issues of Culture and Language

student--in respect to hospitalization. One question that also arises is whether the culture of the non-English speaking patient p...

Health and Gender Inequality

2000). Even as recently as just a couple of decades ago, conditions such as cramps, pregnancy nausea and even labor pains were oft...

Overview of Customary Law

to a time when the only law was Trial by Combat . This was how the Anglo-Saxons saw the role of justice in solving their problems ...

Depression and Pain Relationship and Chi Square Test Assessment

analysis. Making use of a sample of 100 patients, the test group is made up of 60 depressed patients with reflex sympathetic dystr...

Dual Diagnosis Patients and the Importances of Comprehensive Treatment Programs

episode of major depression be treated in this type of program? Or can this person be treated in a primary addiction-oriented prog...

Adolescent Type I Diabetes Care Plan

much sugar remains in the blood and too little energy is transferred to other cells. The diabetic needs to take externally adminis...

A Needs Assessment for Diabetes Education in New York City

provide the physician interface. Beyond these duties are the operational and administrative duties required in this type of facil...

Proposal for an Emergency Room Expansion

and many others have pondered the difficulties of running ERs around the country. In order to eliminate problems, several ideas ...

Elderly Patients and Pain

In five pages this paper examines senior citizens, pain, and their inability oftentimes to verbally express the pain they are feel...

Are Physicians' Professionalism Sacrificing Humanity?

had no idea what chemical component was the primary factor of his theory -- he merely followed his heart as a physician who believ...

Psychotherapy and Zen Buddhism

In twelve pages this paper examines the patient benefits of mutual applications of Zen Buddhism and psychotherapy. Seven sources ...

Patient and Relationship Development, Illness Treatment and Coping

In six pages Erik Erikson's identity development stages are examined and then applied to a case study that involves a young cancer...

Music Therapy and Cancer Patients

In twelve pages a literature review is included in this hypothetical study that considers the effects and potential benefits of mu...