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Nursing Shortage In The United States: Causes, Effects And Solutions

Budget cutbacks, burnout and lack of student enrollment have precluded sufficient staffing in many critical areas of healthcare. ...

Is the Ghanaian Economy Ready for Part-Time and Remote Tertiary Education Provision?

2010). This has meant in terms of education and the educational infrastructure there was an inheritance fro the former colonial p...

The Color Purple by Alice Walker, A Critical Analysis

This essay offers critical analysis of Alice Walker's The Color Purple. The writer draws on supporting sources to argue that siste...

Culturally Competent Care In Psychiatric Hospitals

Culturally competent care appropriate for a psychiatric hospital is considered a basic and primary component of nursing given the ...

Case Study: Bipolar Disorder, Manic Episode With Psychotic Features

When researchers looked into what might cause this shrinkage, it was found that it could be the result of having loss of glia, whi...

Impact of Insured on St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

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

Health Care: Ethical Dilemma

HIV-positive nurses being a threat to patients and other health care workers. Research clearly supports the reality of the situat...

Cultural Conflict in Higher Education

This paper identifies five core strategies for overcoming cultural conflict. Cooperation between administrators, faculty and supp...

Impact of Persistent Diseases

As we live longer, we are subject to acquiring one or more chronic illnesses, some of which come with advancing age. Older age ran...

California Nurse-Patient Ratios

(Cunningham, 2008). Observed Results Cortez (2008) states that in the past, patients had been known to call 911 from their ...

Limited Nursing Advocacy

report, admissions, and emergency situations" (Griffin, 2003, p. 135). The rationale for this policy is that it protects the confi...

Pittsburgh VA Heathcare and Uninsured

provided by the veterans administration (Medicine News, 2007). Nearly 13 percent of all veterans fall under the ban to services pe...

3 Nursing Theories as They Pertain to Geriatrics

of professional nursing, nursing theory provides perspectives and guidance that aids nurses in achieving their primary goal of pro...

Avoiding Restraint and Seclusion

design. It is "not grounded in research that supports the therapeutic efficacy of this intervention, but upon the observation tha...

Meeting a Patient’s Spiritual Needs

caregiver can also ask if they belong to a spiritual, community or religious group (involvement); if the children attend religious...

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 ...

How Can Doctors Get Patients to Comply?

who "cheats" on his diet (1994). Doctors merely expect patients to comply with their dictums but this author says that some like S...

Families and Therapeutic Goals Regarding Autism

"syndrome of behavioral deficits and excesses that have a biological basis but are nonetheless amenable to change through carefull...

Physician Reported Syphilis and Ethics

what serves the greatest number serves the greater good" (London A12), rather than what is favorable for a few. Indeed, this has ...

Case Study of Patient Evaluation

The following are the five DSM-IV-TR Diagnoses based on the DSM Five-Axis determinations: Axis I: Alcohol dependence...

Setting Boundaries in the Therapeutic Relationship

welfare must be protected at a premium. If our definition of boundary violations, however, overlap our standard practices a dilem...

Informed Consent and British Medical Law

upper house has, in fact, been in a state of suspended reform for almost a century - ever since the unelected Tory landowners who...

Appendicitis Diagnosis and Computerized Tomography Scans

prior to patient/surgeon consultation (Lee, Walsh, and Ho, 2001). In reality, such approaches are limited given that the most acc...

Nursing and Issues of Confidentiality

In seven pages the confidentiality issues nurses must contend with are discussed within the weighty context of the trust between p...

A Nursing Perspective on Patient Mental Illness

This 15 page paper discusses seven patients who suffer from various forms of mental illness, and argues that there may be an under...

Getting the Teenage Diabetic Patient to Comply

One of the main problems with teenage diabetes patients is getting the patient to comply with the diet and medication regimen. Thi...

Patient Teaching Plan on Diabetes and the Internet

In five pages this paper examines how the Internet can be used as a tool to teach patients how to manage the disease diabetes....

Patients, Physicians, and Managed Health Care

In twenty pages this paper assesses the impact of the managed health care system upon the relationship between doctor and patient ...

An AIDS Patient and Self Care Model

The Orem Self Care model is represented in an example consisting of nine pages involving an AIDS patient who is discharged after a...

Patient Enteral Feeding and Competent Care

In three pages this paper discusses enteral feeding and providing sufficient care for patients who are receiving it. Two sources ...