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Cultural Considerations for a Home-Bound African American Patient

American vernacular, the diet is one that has characterized the South and its inhabitants for generations. With a few extraordina...

Diabetes Mellitus: Causes, Effects and Treatment

impacts and treatments. Diabetes is caused by imbalances in glucose levels. Rapid fluctuations of glucose levels can resul...

African Americans in Rural Georgia, Diabetes, and Community Healthcare Planning

can develop serious complications including limb amputations, blindness, kidney failure, cardiac disease, cerebral hemorrhage, and...

Lexington Diabetes Center Marketing Plan

that individuals learn why they need to control their blood sugar and that exercise multiplies the effectiveness of dietary contro...

Role of Public Health Nurse/Diabetes Care

reveals about diabetic populations. The normal digestive processes of the body turn any form of carbohydrate that is consumed in...

Glucose and Diabetes

would mean a loss of "freedom" and he was also concerned about possible erectile dysfunction (Gebel, 2008). Others believe that in...

DIABETES AND COST INCREASES

the rise, more people are needing the drug therapies to help with controlling the disease (Buono, 2008). Its estimated that diabet...

Why Pharmaceutical Companies Focus On A Disease

potential to make it through to the next step, the Phase 1 human testing trials (Masia, 2008). This is a very healthy small group...

The Effect of Juvenile Diabetes on a Child’s Life

need it, and monitor their blood; both of these could interfere with daily routine and make the child feel hes being singled out (...

Native Americans and the Effects of Diabetes

The American Diabetes Association (2003) reports that individuals with diabetes are twice as likely to suffer from heart disease a...

Diabetes, Life Expectations, and the Theories of Betty Neuman and Calista Roy

regimes and goals are instituted to bring about change that is viewed to be best for the people involved (Oberle and Allen, 2002)....

Life Expectation Changes and the Theories of Betty Neuman and Calista Roy

are intrinsically connected to behaviors that cope with stress factors in the environment (Roy, 1999). The goal within this nursi...

Canada and the Social Problem of Childhood Obesity

greater importance are the collective changes in social structures and expectations that lead to increasingly sedentary lifestyles...

Orem's Self Care Theory Application

overall, there is nonetheless a reduced life expectancy by as much as one-third, with increased chances of blindness, kidney disea...

Diabetes Mellitus, Type II

in the blood and is not properly transferred to the cells, the body begins to feel weak and fatigued from lack of energy (Type 2 D...

Impact of Stress on Diabetes

and Baron Josef von Mering removed the pancreas of a dog in 1889 to see if it were an essential organ. Their early attempts to fe...

Importance of Cardiac Action Potential

procedure not simply passive diffusion. Typically the cell membranes in a living organism are selectively permeable. That is the...

Classifications and Treatment of Diabetes

(Wilson, Krakoff, and Gohdes, 1997). Its complications include urinary hypovolemia, electrolyte imbalance and extraordinarily hig...

Evaluating the Impacts of a Vegetarian Diet Proposal

health and that any perceived quality of life benefits are more related to ideology than scientifically demonstrable benefits deri...

Uninsured Assistance

are intended to be marketing efforts for a variety of health services providers in the area. For a nominal fee, visitors can have...

Sponsorship of the Olympics and Social Issues

main advantage to sponsoring sports events is that the sponsorship can and should be used as a "catalyst for building corporate im...

Article Critique/Gestational Diabetes

being-in-the-world" (Evans and OBrien, 2005, p. 68). Each woman who received an invitation letter and showed interesting in partic...

Disease Management Programs/Diabetes & Effectiveness

levels (Rickheim et al 269). Fireman, Barlett and Selby (2004) Over the past decade disease management programs (DMPs) have prol...

Diabetes in America

the pancreas do not produce enough insulin in order to meet the bodys needs, and this is in part attributable to the acquired decr...

Living with Multiple Health Needs; Care Assessment

over between the social and the medical areas, the care plan needs to look at each and determine the way in which these will be de...

Community Nursing/Jackson Heights, NY

(CNY, 2007). Talk to an informant; problems and strengths : Naturally this writer/tutor was not in a position to find an inform...

Learning Diabetes Self-care

of diabetes care, including blood/glucose monitoring, food intake monitoring, exercise monitoring, and insulin administration. Be...

Strict Glycemic Control and the Prevention of Deep Wound Infections in Open Heart Surgery Patients: Proposed Research

in their glycemic index, present many concerns in the post operative environment. This is particularly true for patients that are...

Evidence-Based Practice & Pediatric Diabetes

Evidence Based Practice is covered and it's important role that it plays along with how it can it be applied to diabetes in Pediat...

Diabetes in Adolescence

between cases at the time of diagnosis (Newmark and Anhalt, 2007). Type 1 diabetes is typically due to a "lack of insulin producti...