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ICU Patients and Communication

"ICU syndrome" (Elliot and Wright, 1999). In its milder form, ICU syndrome was characterized by the presence of confusion and memo...

Treatment in Home and in Hospital for Acute Conditions Advantages and Disadvantages

level of problems for inpatients was 20.9% compared to only 8.4% for outpatients (Wilson et al, 2002). When asked to rate the serv...

Patient Consent Issues

clear that the patient is taking part in a decision-making process, and not simply signing a form. In practical terms, of course, ...

Heart Disease Clinical Summary

later adding informational pamphlets discussing heart disease in the aging. My first meeting with Ms. Bross largely was informati...

Patient Dignity and Concept Analysis

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

Patient Autonomy and Nursing Concept Analysis

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

Occupational versus Nursing Therapy for Stroke Patients

For different reasons, each profession believes that the morning routine of washing and dressing is essential. Both the nurse and...

Families and the Effects of Prolonged Illness

for the family. Finances have been destroyed with assets being wiped out, the stress such illness creates in the other family memb...

Wait Time for Patients For Receiving Copies of Records

some studies that address waiting times that patients invest in seeing physicians, however. McCarthy, McGee and OBoyle (2000) pro...

Postsurgical Patient Care

indwelling foley and compression boot. Her dressing is dry and intact. She was discharged with Percocet 5mg q6. Analysis and Out...

Health Care Providers, the Patient, and the Patient Self Determination Act

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 ...

Legal and Medical Issues Associated with a Patient's 'Right to Die'

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

Literature Review on a Cancer Patient's Emotional Needs

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

Ratio of Patients to Nurses

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

Cultural Mores and Nursing

view of medicine in order to better help the indigenous population on which she is called to serve. Before launching any p...

Counseling Style Determination

client, the therapist must first determine what the personality structure of the client is. Now, trying to determine "personality ...

Pediatric Patient Catheterization

Sometimes just the opposite can occur and the bladder does not empty like it should, if at all. Other problems that seem to be ass...

Elite Theory and Understanding Public Policy by Thomas Dye

and without duress, and is competent. At least two physicians must agree that the patient is likely to die within six months. Th...

Hospital Emergency Departments

in funding for long-term care will have had a devastating impact on women, minorities, and children. Patterns of Use According to...

Deliberate Harm to Self and Nursing Management

In seven pages this paper discusses the problems associated with a patient's deliberate self harm in a discussion of relevant mana...

Voluntary and Involuntary Euthanasia

it is right to allow terminally ill patients to end their lives, or to assist such patients to commit suicide, will continue despi...

Theories of Peplau and Orem in Patient Assessment

In this paper consisting of seven pages the importance of adequately assessing patient needs is discussed by examining the theorie...

Asylum by Erving Goffman

In five pages this text is used in an analysis of the mental patient's moral career and medical model. There are no other sources...

Ethical Conflict Regarding Nurse's Code and a Patient's 'Right to Die'

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

Cancer Patients and Cessation of Smoking Cessation

of heavy alcohol ingestion and heavy cigarette smoking (Brown, Kresevic and Nosan, 1998). Purpose of the Study...

Patient's 'Right to Die' and the Legality of Nursing Responsibility

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

Psychotic Discourse Framing Analysis

were a child answering her mother (Ribeiro 80). The great playwright William Shakespeare was a keen observer of human behavior, ...

Conflicting Ethics, Euthanasia, and Nursing

In eight pages this essay discusses the ethical conflict between a patient's 'right to die' and the Nurse's Code. Five sources ar...

Right to Die and Government Spending Limitations

This paper presents the argument in nine pages that the government is earmarking too much spending on the preservation of terminal...

Structure of the Brain and Alzheimer's Disease Impact

In five pages this research paper examines how Alzheimer's Disease influences the patients' brain cells and structure. Eight sour...