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has been estimated that between 49 and 83 percent of all elderly adults experience pain on a regular basis (Briggs, 2003). Desbi...
In eleven pages this paper examines such strategic pain management for senior citizens as guided imagery, meditation, and massage ...
In five pages this paper examines senior citizens, pain, and their inability oftentimes to verbally express the pain they are feel...
2. constant monitoring for potential complications 3. the willingness to utilize both pharmacological and nonpharmacologi...
Domain concepts Health: The traditional understanding of "health" is that is the absence of illness and/or injury. However, for ...
p. 29), as stated in its title. Mean age was 81; 218 participants completed the study. The researchers evaluated the differences...
the elderly patient. Significance Careful consideration...
surgery. Preventing such intense pain often requires less drug use than does alleviating the pain once it has begun (Siwek, 2001)...
causes the pain to become more intense than it would normally appear if the patient realized it was only triggered by a properly t...
This essay discusses a journal article that focuses on the assessment of pain and pain management by nurses. The essay analyzes an...
in acute care is sensitive about the use of drugs in recovering patients. Exposure of abuses of past years has raised awareness o...
the 5 year mark after diagnosis (Kreamer, 2003). Tobacco use is the leading risk factor in regards to developing lung cancer and 8...
In five pages pain is examined within the context of the metaphors featured in Emily Dickinson's poems 'There is a pain so utter' ...
professional must carefully evaluate this patient using all that is known about each of these conditions. Pain such as that being...
how much pain a person, or a patient, is experiencing. A level of pain that may puts one person in tears may be easily handled by ...
Study, detailed three case studies that introduced a multi-pronged method when it came to the treatment and potential of patients ...
treatment over plates of types of cells resulted in greater proliferation of those cells than in control groups. TT require...
a world in which there is much pleasure but the people are vicious, unless they derive pleasure from viciousness, which seems to b...
This research paper describes 3 prescription, non-prescriptive and alternative/complementary drugs that can be used to address dep...
self-reported diabetes ranged from 1.6% among persons aged 18-34 years to 12.5% among persons aged 65-74 years" (Current Trends Re...
and efficiently. Uscneurosurgery.com (2004), however, makes the point...
future. Todays Rex Healthcare not only filled the facility long ago, it also overflowed it to spill out into outlying areas surro...
this incident may have contributed to her divorce. It is also true that her mother has had a problem with alcoholism for over twen...
participants in the study required some kind of practitioner response as a result of their lower back pain. The second assumption...
benefits that massage therapy provides for CF patients includes "pain relief, relaxation, improved pulmonary function, decreased a...
In fifteen pages a psychological viewpoint is taken in this examination of chronic pain and the effects it has on the sufferer and...
This research paper chronicles the pain and suffering that can be attributed to racism in the United States. The writer calls on s...
In five pages this research paper examines the incidence of limb pain in lost organs in a consideration of scientific knowledge re...
In the story of Morrie we are faced with a man who knows that he will die. In these respects the pain experienced in the two stori...
population, newborn infants who can not verbally communicate their pain or allow the researcher any means of utilizing patient sel...