SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Prescription Drug Problems

Essays 211 - 240

Computer Tools and Inappropriate Prescribing for the Elderly

The incidence of inappropriate medication prescriptions issued to elderly individuals is estimated to be between 12 and 40 percent...

Issues in Group Dynamics

In this essay, a hospital was used as the organization that had problems. The research team identified four problems related to gr...

APRN Working to Their Full Extent

This paper offered a position paper on the topic of allowing Advanced Practice Registered Nurses to practice up to their knowledge...

Cultural Differences in an Acquisition

The writer looks at the problems faced by Indian firm Nicholas Piramal India Ltd (NPIL) when acquiring a western firm. The managem...

Questioning Cholesterol Guidelines

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at cholesterol guidelines recently published. The tendency of the guidelines to result...

Senior Citizen Universal Prescription Coverage Plan

they need. While everyone hurts with high prescription costs, senior citizens tend to rely more on prescription drugs for their ov...

Prescription Rates and Side Effects of Antidepressants

treatment as well. Peter Jensen, a professor of child psychiatry at Columbia University reports that "pediatricians and family pra...

The Employment Situations in California and in America as a Whole

with links to Silicon Valley, but the "ripple effect" carried over into the myriad support businesses that depended on the revenue...

Legislative Issues and Medicare's Prospective Payment System

a few years ago. Managed care was quite effective in cost containment until the mid-1990s, when health care costs began to rise a...

The Difficult Problem of the Nursing Shortage

Statistics expects that number to rise to more than one million in less than 20 years. The American Nurses Association and Monste...

Legalization of Marijuana for Medical Purposes

In six pages this paper supports the legalization of marijuana sale by prescription in the U.S. for serious medical conditions wit...

Lack of 'Health' Concern of Mainstream Medicine

In fifteen pages this report discusses how the U.S. system of health care is failing citizens due to poor care by medical practiti...

The One Best System by David B. Tyack

In five pages urban education as examined in Tyack's text is analyzed within the context that despite the notion it is 'wise to be...

Pharmacists and the Issue of Prescriptive Authority

This has been a privilege which has made them an even more integral part of the overall health care system of these agencies. Unf...

The Debt Structure of Walgreens

having such impressive amounts of cash to use at its discretion is that it is building its store-a-day on revenues of current oper...

Mothers And Drugs: How A Child's Life Is Impacted When She Is An Addict

of crack cocaine overwhelmingly demonstrate that premature delivery, low birth weight and retardation as three of the primary affl...

Australian Society and Drugs' Legal Status

legal status have no supportive precedents to cite (Moffitt et al, 1998). In the United States, Alaska briefly legalized the use ...

Ionized Drugs' Absorption

matrix, which contains mostly cholesterol and phospholipids (Merck, 2005). The composition of lipids not only determine the permea...

War on Drugs' Legalization

In five pages this issue is examined from both sides. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

Major Drugs' Decriminalization

to legalizing drugs. But these days it isnt mob criminals that are the problem, but international terrorists that are benefiting f...

'War on Drugs' and its Political Benefits

the creation of organizations. NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) is perhaps the best known group that...

U.S. Policing, Racial Prejudice and 'the War on Drugs'

the economic and political struggles of inner-city existence in the United States. "Racial discrimination exists in the criminal ...

Pathologic Gambling In Parkinson's Disease Patients Using Dopamine Agonist

which dopamine agonists and levodopa therapy works synergistically to provide physical benefits is both grand and far-reaching; th...

Opposing Ritalin Prescription

very controversial and many say that children are "doped" which is a chemical alternative to treating the real problem ("Britain" ...

An Examination of Aborigine Oppression in Doctor Worreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World

other words, through the words of the author, the Aborigines are no longer just a group of people in Australia, but rather they ar...

Prescriptions and the Elderly

A large proportion of our elderly take multiple medications for multiple conditions. This has led to a situation known as polyphar...

Ecstasy Use As A Party Drug: Cause And Effect

dosage will make them increase this aphrodisiac sensation will only experience acute nausea, seizures and eventual unconsciousness...

Discharge Instructions, Heart Patients

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

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...

Unemployment in the US

projections that indicate further rises in the future. However, it may also be argued that nationally it is not really an issue as...