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Hospital Chaplains and Elderly Illnesses

Dementia is a debilitating disease that strikes mostly older people. The focus of this essay is Spiritual care for people with dem...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Cancer Patients and Cessation of Smoking Cessation

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

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...

Psychotic Discourse Framing Analysis

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

Religious Beliefs, Importance to Nursing

This paper considers the role of patients' religion and how it should impact nursing care. The writer focuses on the way in whic...

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...

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...

The Kidneys and Renal Failure

"three important hormones: erythropoietin ... or EPO, which stimulates the bone marrow to make red blood cells; renin, which regul...

Hospital Leaning Center

A 6 page paper about establishing a learning center in a hospital. The dimensions and location of the center is reported, includin...

Proximity to Nephrologist and Mortality Among Hemodialysis Patients

nephrologists can be a particularly concerning factor in health care outcome. Methods...

Article Critique/Online Cancer Support Groups

these elements were viewed as variables that could significantly influence patients attitudes(Im, et al, 2007, p. 706). This quest...

The Impact of Culture in Medical Care

"how they relate to others. It influences the way patients respond to medical services and preventive interventions and impacts th...

Diabetes Self-Management - Hispanic Patients

has always been about the development of autonomy, equality, social justice and democracy" (Mezirow, 1999). The transformative app...

Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP)

factors that have been identified include "diabetes, alcoholism, malnutrition, history of antibiotic or corticosteroid use, decrea...

Discharge Instructions, Heart Patients

planning evaluation to those patients, conducted or overseen by a registered nurse, social worker or other appropriately qualified...

Patient Satisfaction As An Indication of Clinical Quality

Agency for Healthcare and Quality as "doing the right thing, at the right time, in the right way, for the right person-and having ...

Nursing Leadership, Advocacy & Responsibilities

Leadership and management while related are two distinctively different concepts. Leadership can be discerned from simply manageme...

Chronicity & Illness Trajectory

refers to being allergic to multiple forms of stimuli. Chronic illness not only impacts the patient, but also the patients family ...

Ethics, Blood Transfusions & Jehovah's Witnesses

be immensely helpful in gaining insight into the specific issues involved and subsequent perspective on what course of action to t...

Memory Deficits Due To Alzheimer's

illustrated how certain aspects such as genetics, disease and environment diversely impact the extent of human memory, with old ag...

Alzheimer’s and Therapeutic Recreation

2001). Current theory suggest that the disease initiates the internal cell-death programs which exists in neuronal cells (Marx, 2...

Breast Cancer Research & Ethics

personal opinion can affect human behavior, and the frequently complicated nature of ethics complications in cancer research. It a...

Best Practice in Ensuring Infected Wound Healing

potential for long term physiological complications as well as long-term emotional impacts. Not only does the type of care needed...

Organizational Change in St. Vincent's ICU

Hospital. The purpose here is to describe and evaluate the restructuring of St. Vincents ICU to gain one-on-one nursing and so im...

Controlling Asthma

Surveys suggest there are more asthma patients with uncontrolled asthma than patients themselves think. The Asthma and Allergy Fou...