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

policies in regard to the PSDA. I have been fortunate in that I was chosen to be a member of that team. Consequently, I have at ...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

pay for treatment that is not covered by insurance and families without insurance are not required to pay (SJCRH, 2008). Furthermo...

While CHF has a mortality rate that ten times that of AIDS and is also responsible for far more hospitalizations than cancer, even...

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

Heart disease is known to have a significant relationship with depression, which can greatly complicate the processes inherent in ...

this development and left orders for both analgesia and sedation, which helped at first, but became less effective as the hours pa...

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

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

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

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

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

Statement, 2006). It is also a goal of HHC to "join with other health workers and with communities in a partnership" (Mission Sta...

incorporated into this study is extensive. The research team breaks this discussion into three subheadings: Assessment Congruence ...

Surveys suggest there are more asthma patients with uncontrolled asthma than patients themselves think. The Asthma and Allergy Fou...

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

illustrated how certain aspects such as genetics, disease and environment diversely impact the extent of human memory, with old ag...

2001). Current theory suggest that the disease initiates the internal cell-death programs which exists in neuronal cells (Marx, 2...