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Terminal Conditions and Informing Patients

patient, but it could serve to avoid having the same thing happen again in the future. Other Facts, Options and Consequences ...

Terminal Condition and Informing Patients 2

Acquiescing to the constraints imposed by organizational and professional structure does not mean that the nurse has no alternativ...

Assisting in Grief Counseling

left to deny anything connected with the loss, either before or after the fact. Those left behind also need to acknowledge the me...

A Case History of Angina

of angina, but no indication of muscle damage or clotting (as would be the case in coronary thrombosis). It should also be...

Article Critique/Where Terminally Ill Prefer to Die

that puts the topic of this study, as well as past research, within an appropriate philosophical framework. Tang then cites the ...

Impact of Schizophrenia on Patients and their Families

The paper is a literature review on the topic of schizophrenia and the impact and influence that the condition has on patients and...

Role of Charge Nurse

the situation, the charge nurse might take a number of different actions in response to this information. For example, the charge ...

Informed Consent and British Medical Law

upper house has, in fact, been in a state of suspended reform for almost a century - ever since the unelected Tory landowners who...

The Nurse Educator, Postprostatectomy Patients and Informative Websites

Dr. McCullough is "Director of the Sexual Health and Male Fertility and Microsurgery Programs at New York University School of Med...

Ethical Analysis of Wrong Extremity Amputation

consent must be made through a signed legal document (Retsas and Forrester, 1995). In all cases consent must be freely and volunt...

Medical Law

In order to determine whether or not the consent form signed is valid we need to consider the concept of informed consent. The con...

An Admissions Essay Consideration

After just a few days there, I saw how quickly my personal perspective changed and how open I was to a greater understanding of th...

Truth in Patient Care

"become a universal law" (Kant, 1993, p. 30). In other words, Kants main criteria for action is that the individual should conside...

Literature Review of Terminal Cancer Patients and Hospital Care Quality

is important to note aspects of hospitalization which are perceived by patients dying of cancer as negative experiences that incre...

'Proper' Alternative of Euthanasia

what is tantamount to a death sentence, because of the "uncertain definition of suicide in the context of a terminal illness" (Mar...

Hospice Care, Dying, and Death

In three pages a nursing perspective is applied to a hospice program that deals with terminal patients through investigative resea...

ETHICS, BUSINESS AND LEGALITIES IN A CANCER CENTER

specialists when necessary and requires continuity of care protections to patients so they dont have to change health care provide...

llegality of Assisted Suicide in Regards to the 14th Amendment

This 5 page paper provides an overview of a case where physicians were sued for assisting terminal patients with suicide and were ...

Ethics and Disclosing a Terminal Prognosis

This paper pertains to withhold a terminal prognosis from the patient and the ethicality of this action. Four pages in length, fou...

Mishel's Uncertainty In Illness Theory

is the development of Mishels Uncertainty in Illness Scale (MUIS), which is comprised of twenty-eight item measure that utilizes a...

Excerpt from The Silent Partners by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

for diseases. The workers are constantly fatigued from the long hours, some rooms are too hot, others too cold, some dripping with...

Impact Of Chronic Illness On The Elderly And Families

medications or they could be a sign of depression (Turner and Kelly, 2000). Turner and Kelly (2000) state strongly that it is e...

Common Medications and Their Patient Information, Procedural Recommendations, and Side Effects

In forty two pages this paper examines drugs that are commonly prescribed for various conditions in a consideration of monitoring ...

Cultural Influences on Attitudes to Schizophrenia

have on patient outcomes. It was found patients from the Mexican American families, where there was a lower level of EE were also ...

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...

Gibbs' Reflective Model and a Reflective Learning Document

undue fear created but there is also an appreciation of the true nature of the condition and the care the patient needs to take of...

Controlling Asthma

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

Artificial Nutrition/hydration & Terminal Pediatric Patient

the insertion of a central line, threaded through a vein, and it was once believed that it would aid cancer patients, restoring ap...

The Terminal Patient: A Case Study

paradigm but without the fantasy that acceptance is the ultimate outcome. In treating this patient, a student writing on the subje...

Terminal Care Patients, Families, Nursing Staff, and Effective Communication

Understanding that there is a step by step progression, both physically and psychologically, can be part of the nurses role in thi...