SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Patient Consent Issues

Essays 181 - 210

Nailbiting and CBT

most pragmatic and meaningful of treatments in terms of how it shows where and how a person may have distorted thoughts regarding ...

Suicide and Patients with AIDS and HIV

not to endure that process or cause their loved ones to have to experience it with them. The impact of the loss of personal autono...

Insurance Companies, Health Professionals, and HMO

In ten pages this paper examines the issues involving health care professionals and insurance companies as they relate to HMO and ...

Controlling Costs and HMOs

a total of more than $4,000 for every citizen of the country (Grumbach and Bodenheimer, 1994). Plagued by overspending for years,...

Professional Nursing and Theory

are licensed individuals who go through at least one year of formal education in addition to clinical instruction, and the focus o...

Artificial Nutrition, Hydration, and Ethics

In twelve pages patient ethics are examined in a consideration of issues associated with artificial hydration and nutrition. Twel...

Overview of Executive Nursing

In nine pages executive nursing is examined in a discussion of their many concerns regarding the industry itself, patient care, an...

Terminally Ill Patients and Hospital Resource Allocation Ethics

In four pages this paper considers terminally ill patients, space making allocation, and the ethical dilemmas that surround this d...

AIDS Patients and Nursing

In five pages this paper discusses issues relating to patients with AIDS and nurses. Twelve sources are cited in the bibliography...

Assisted Suicide, Ethics, and Nursing

way, before his mind too, was gone." As a nurse, this presented me with what I felt were two conflicting goals. On the one hand, ...

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Medical Coding, and Patient Privacy Rights

life in prison for patient death (Jacko & Sears, 2003). HIPAA is comprised of five major titles that are applicable to each provi...

Prostate Cancer and Quality of Life

cancer affects both the man and his life partner. In most cases, study designs addressing quality of life issues for prostate canc...

Hospital Medicare Reimbursement

to take expensive prescription medications as prescribed. This acerbates medical conditions and results in increases in acuity lev...

Hand Washing Project

proven to be the principal reason for nosocomial infections, that is, infections that are acquired after hospital admittance. Impo...

The English Patient/Theme of Nationalism

blank slate for the imaginings of those around him, particularly Hana. Myth "crosses international boundaries and offers apparentl...

Basic Rights in Health Care

are told what they should do by their physicians. For example, if a patient visits a doctor and due to age parameters, he or she w...

Gender Identity Patient Disorder Diagnosis, Treatment, and the Film Boys Don’t Cry

by persistent discomfort with ones sex" (Meyenburg, 1999, p. 305). This gender identification with the opposite sex typically com...

Period and its Impact on the Incidence of Deep Wound Infection in Diabetic Individuals Undergoing Open Heart Surgery

Researchers have identified nutrition as a significant factor in wound healing. In fact, it has been argued that nutritional elem...

Confidentiality/ANA Ethics & New York State Law

This ANA Code also specifically includes the possibility that "inappropriate disclosure" can occur by using "identifiable patient ...

Quality of Life with AIDS

system, decreasing the natural defenses that allow the body to fight off infections and diseases (Etiology, 2008). As this suggest...

BNP Assays (Article Summary)

predicting mortality and morbidity. Authors provide a section to explain and explore the existence of natriuretic peptides. Anoth...

Perspectives on Community Nursing

In eight pages a community nursing issue in which an educational interaction between a student nurse and a patient did not go well...

Teenagers and Pallative Care

have changed considerably over the last century. This change is associated with a number of factors, the most prominent being our...

Care Barriers

in a Scottish farmhouse that is more than 10 miles from the nearest village and more than 50 miles from the nearest hospital. Jame...

Case Study Analysis of Patient Confidentiality

the written record. The patient also adamantly refuses a recommended treatment, but he is only 16 years old. The parents go along ...

Ethical Considerations Regarding Terminal Illness and Palliative Care

one, we become constantly reacquainted with the subject. The way that we deal with death varies on both an individual and a colle...

Nursing and Physical Restraints Usage

the restrained person and others. This implies that the force used in restraining the person is less injurious to all concerned th...

Right to Live and Medical Ethics

Study Andrew is a 68-year-old male who was admitted to a medical intensive care unit after experiencing a stroke. On life ...

Australian's Negligence Tort

In eight pages this paper discusses issues of negligence in this examination of Australia's tort law and the relationship between ...

Nursing Diabetes Patient Education Internet Websites

on diabetes into categories and addresses these topics on separate web pages, as does the first site. The homepage explains that t...