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Nursing and Issues of Confidentiality

In seven pages the confidentiality issues nurses must contend with are discussed within the weighty context of the trust between p...

A Nursing Perspective on Patient Mental Illness

This 15 page paper discusses seven patients who suffer from various forms of mental illness, and argues that there may be an under...

Appendicitis Diagnosis and Computerized Tomography Scans

prior to patient/surgeon consultation (Lee, Walsh, and Ho, 2001). In reality, such approaches are limited given that the most acc...

Kant's 'Kantianism Ethics' and Mill's 'Utilitarian Ethics'

This paper offers summary, contrasts, comparisons, and weakness analyses of these ethical philosophies. No additional sources are...

Getting the Teenage Diabetic Patient to Comply

One of the main problems with teenage diabetes patients is getting the patient to comply with the diet and medication regimen. Thi...

Patient Teaching Plan on Diabetes and the Internet

In five pages this paper examines how the Internet can be used as a tool to teach patients how to manage the disease diabetes....

Health Care, Bigotry, and Prejudice

This paper considers various strategies that can be applied to prevent prejudicial relationships between health care workers and p...

Families and Therapeutic Goals Regarding Autism

"syndrome of behavioral deficits and excesses that have a biological basis but are nonetheless amenable to change through carefull...

How Can Doctors Get Patients to Comply?

who "cheats" on his diet (1994). Doctors merely expect patients to comply with their dictums but this author says that some like S...

Setting Boundaries in the Therapeutic Relationship

welfare must be protected at a premium. If our definition of boundary violations, however, overlap our standard practices a dilem...

Case Study of Patient Evaluation

The following are the five DSM-IV-TR Diagnoses based on the DSM Five-Axis determinations: Axis I: Alcohol dependence...

Avoiding Restraint and Seclusion

design. It is "not grounded in research that supports the therapeutic efficacy of this intervention, but upon the observation tha...

Nursing Shortage & Patient Safety

established that nurses are often involved in the "timely identification of complications," which, if acted upon swiftly, prevent ...

Meeting a Patient’s Spiritual Needs

caregiver can also ask if they belong to a spiritual, community or religious group (involvement); if the children attend religious...

Health Trend/Birthing at Miami Valley

focuses on the emotional and psychological importance of treating birth as a "family event rather than a medical emergency" (Becke...

Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Among African Americans

This 25 page paper provides an overview of the current literature regarding CVD in African American patients. Bibliography lists ...

Pittsburgh VA Heathcare and Uninsured

provided by the veterans administration (Medicine News, 2007). Nearly 13 percent of all veterans fall under the ban to services pe...

Healthcare Communication

Asynchronous communication is that which does not require the simultaneous direct attention of all involved. It can take the form...

Medical Ethics Issues and Catholic Hospitals

In eight pages the moral dilemmas several Catholic hospitals struggle with in terms of such medical issues as euthanasia and abort...

Community Hospital Survival and Public Administrators

In fifteen pages this paper discusses 4 ways that community hospitals' survival can be ensured by public administrators. Eleven s...

Hospitals and Indoor Air Quality

In thirty pages this paper examines how hospitals must address indoor air quality so that infection can be minimized in a consider...

History and Development of U.S. Public Hospitals

In twenty pages NY and PA Hospitals are the focus of this consideration of the historical evolution of public hospitals in the Uni...

Improvement of Guest Relations Business Memo

A business memorandum consisting of seven pages suggests methods of improving a hospital's guest relations program in order to mai...

Ethics and Removing Medical Patients from Life Support

In 5 pages this ethical consideration discusses 3 philosophers' views on removing medical patients from life support. There are 5...

Hospital Medication Delivery and Theory of Constraints Application

In six pages this paper examines TOC in an application of a hospital's medication delivery systems management. Four sources are c...

Medical Conditions and Length of Hospital Stays

In five pages this paper discusses health coverage and how hospital stay length is determined due to various types of medical cond...

Human Resources and Ethics

In five pages issues such as sexual harassment and racism are included in how a department of human resources should ethically dea...

Fictitious Merger of 2 Hospitals

In five pages this fictitious hospital merger scenario includes actual merger information in a consideration of background, plan, ...

Ethics and Human Resource Management

And Business addresses the very issues of corporate social responsibility that should rightly exist within every companys infrastr...

Lakesided Memorial Hospital Case Study

the Centers move are nowhere in line with the fractional increase imposed upon the Clinic. The fact that the Outpatient Clinic is...