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concerning controlling natural sources of pollutants and it is also a definition that recognizes the serious impact that human act...

have been associated with NRTIs, which are believed to cause mitochondrial dysfunction, which range from oxidative damage to inhib...

fewer than 200,000 inmates (Golembeski and Fullilove, 2005). The Washington Post reported on December 1, 2006 that the U.S. prison...

getting into debt, and he could look forward to a secure and comfortable retirement" (p. D8). That is no longer true, only the wea...

employer that a potential employee is able to develop a goal -- and to stick to it; which is an important attribute in any job....

differently dependent upon their year of birth. By many accounts, early boomers were born between 1946 and 1955, where late boomer...

This nursing practicum proposal focuses on the mandated nurse-to-patient ratios that have been implemented in California. The writ...

This paper is made up of three sections, with each section pertaining to a significant hospital administration issue. These topics...

and retention" (Andersen, 2002, p. 603). This then should be the first priority: to design a study that will accrue and retain ...

operating room to recovery, the tracking of patient information becomes an imperative part of this process (Beyea, Hicks and Becke...

century and also well into the twentieth, what historian Barbara Welter refers to as the "Cult of True Womanhood" characterized ho...

both verbal and physical battle; indeed, to interfere with ones inherent constitutional rights is to intrude upon the very essence...

long after all signs of consciousness have ceased. Is this "good"? Is this beneficent? The news tells us of parents confronting me...

is the development of Mishels Uncertainty in Illness Scale (MUIS), which is comprised of twenty-eight item measure that utilizes a...

What has been established thus far is the fact that depth and duration of consciousness, coupled with how old the individual is wh...

arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways and all other products of human work and thought..." (Purnell, 2005, p. 7). It is the eth...

whoever the client might be, that is, an individual, family, group or community. The third provision indicates that nurses are als...

age. Therefore, the patient population is increasing. This factor is also influenced by the fact that that the huge lump in the Am...

counselor, often causing even greater tension than what already exists and drawing away from the ability to forge an alliance. Se...

healing. Respondents who reported moderate stress before group (56.3%) experienced a decrease (43.8%) after group that dropped th...

nurses facilitate the "recognition and communication" of these concepts, permitting "thoughts to be shared through language" (Davi...

is designed to ensure that "Patients have access to needed care" and that healthcare providers are "free to practice medicine with...

In eight pages this essay discusses efforts to reconcile euthanasia and the Nurse's Code in a consideration of the ethics nonmalef...

through the administration of pain medication. It is not to end that suffering through medically-induced suicide. In fact, the C...

best way to appease both the law and the public; its dynamic decision about whether to include doctor-assisted suicide and volunta...

providers and also provide a well-balanced outline about the issues involved in a patients "right to die" (Hendin, Foley and White...

It seems that within the context of the work, there is little compassion shown for the protagonist with the exception of one oncol...

to the bill as did many nursing executives, arguing that there was sufficient legislation already on the books that dealt with sta...

need for theory in accomplishing the tasks of direct patient care. There are routines and required protocols to follow, but the p...

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