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Advanced Practice Roles in Nursing
Roles of the Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Educator, Nurse Informatics, and Nurse Administrator
The Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Educator, Nurse Informatics, and Nurse Administrator provide health care services although Continue Reading...
Chest Tubes
Nursing -- Chest Tubes
As the field of nursing gains more respect around the world, nursing professionals and nursing students becomes increasingly aware of the high degree of specialized knowledge and practice that are necessary to be Continue Reading...
Personal Philosophy
What is nursing to me?
Nursing is all about caring for and knowing how to take care of patients in illness to help them heal and take care of patients in birth and death. This is just a brief introduction of nursing where we fur Continue Reading...
There are certainly different approaches to the theory of anticipatory mourning. Clearly, one of the major issues within the literature surrounds the communication between the dying person and the caregiver, and both caregiver and patient and those Continue Reading...
Utilitarianism is most often used by healthcare organizations like insurance companies: to keep costs down for the many, a potentially valuable treatment may be denied to the individual because it is deemed experimental or unnecessarily costly. As u Continue Reading...
Conclusion:
The changes in the age demographic of the U.S. As well as the need to reduce overall spending in health care are significant reasons why advanced practice and specialty provision practitioner's skill sets and demands have changed. It i Continue Reading...
This is more complicated by the prevalence of other mental disorders like dementia and drug induced mood swings. Nurses need to be well trained in pattern recognition and logical assessment of the condition and take suitable action to solve these pr Continue Reading...
Ethical Issues of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
The ethical issues relating to assisted suicide and euthanasia have captured the attention of the public. The topic of Euthanasia is a contentious one and it inescapably incites strong emotional argu Continue Reading...
For example, Massachusetts and California have made recent improvements by upgrading care quality and professionalizing care; by contrast, despite Florida's large population of seniors and the beginning of a coalition of patients, families, and work Continue Reading...
Right-to-Die Opinion
Order ID: Right-to-Die Opinion
Suicide is a very emotionally and morally charged subject to many people. The reason for the discord and divergence of opinions comes from the different perspectives and directions. Some of these Continue Reading...
Physician Assistant Program Narrative
Personal Statement: My Motivation towards Becoming a PA
We all have dreams and aspirations. As a young child, my dream was to become a chef. When asked why I wanted to become a chef, my answer was always consis Continue Reading...
Career Opportunities
The author of this report is asked to focus on career descriptions and outlooks, twelve particular ones, and then describe which ones are most appealing to the author of this report. The careers, in the order that they will be m Continue Reading...
Nursing Ethics
In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, medical technology has advanced enough to provide certain measures to keep the body "alive," but not necessarily the brain or the cognitive functions that make up quality of life (O'Keefe-McC Continue Reading...
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CaSonya Thomas is a director in the director's office at the county of San Bernardino -- Department of Behavioral Health. (County of San Bernardino - Department of Beh Continue Reading...
Prevent Compassion Fatigue
Compassion fatigue has been referred to as "the cost of caring" for others in several fields of work -- notably healthcare, social work and other professions in which empathy and hands-on human assistance can lead to some Continue Reading...
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References
Cooney, C., & Mortimer, a. (1995). Elder Abuse and Dementia - a Pilot Study . International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 41, 276-283.
Dong, X., Simon, M., de Leon, C.M., Fulmer, T., Beck, T., Hebert, L., et al. (2009). Elder Self Continue Reading...
In addition to lecture-based introduction to religious differences, video and/or live presentations from religious leaders and clergy from different faiths and role play exercises, the proposed implementation of training in this area should also inc Continue Reading...
The first on the recommended list is that the physician must acknowledge the grief that the person is feeling, and also acknowledge the fact that he, himself, may not know what the bereaved person is going through at that particular moment. He can Continue Reading...
Some Ayurvedic herbs such as terminalia chebula or emblica officinalis, are indigenous only to India, and have no Western equivalent (Bushkin pp). Amlaki, Indian gooseberry, is the cornerstone of Chyavan-prash, the most famous Ayurvedic formulation, Continue Reading...
Spiritual Needs Assessment
Interview Transcript
How important is your spirituality to you?
Very important. I understand not everyone sees things the way I do but it matters greatly to me when I'm facing my mortality and questions about life in gen Continue Reading...
Scholarship Grant
Why I am Applying:
I have two motives in applying for this course. The main motive is my personal goal and ambitions, and the second is the core values on which those ambitions are based. Both these have created an aptitude in me Continue Reading...
aromatherapy and allergies and the various nursing aspects and implications on the uses of aromatherapy as a treatment for allergies.
Aromatherapy is defined as the art of using essential oils taken from leaves, bark, roots, and flowers, to enhance Continue Reading...
I also need to know the length of time that I have scheduled to speak since professional research conventions usually allocate 10 minutes to 90 minutes for a presentation. If only a short time, I may be advised to present highlights and to give han Continue Reading...
WESLEY J. SMITH'S
TRUTH ABOUT ASSISTANCE"
Wesley J. Smith's analysis of euthanasia and assisted suicide is logically flawed in several ways. First, rather than discussing the main arguments supporting the idea in principle, Smith attacks the most Continue Reading...
Controversial Cases of End-of-Life Decisions
For this discussion, we consider one the most controversial euthanasia case in the history of America - the case of Terri Schiavo who never regained consciousness after collapsing at her home on February Continue Reading...
Tradition says that a dying person should be put on the floor in order for them to be closer to the earth. After the ailing person dies, the body is washed and prepared for funeral practices. Most Hindu people would rather have a Hindu priest pray a Continue Reading...
Abortion / Abortion Debate
In the United States, an individual's rights are guaranteed by law and the National Constitution. Laws encompass all aspects of the cultural definition and are likely to change over time as the social, political and relig Continue Reading...
Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom recounts the afternoons he spent with his old college professor, Morrie Schwartz, after discovering that Morrie was dying from ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig's disease). For anyone interested in the study of death and Continue Reading...
Strats Methods Prog Design
Strategy is identified to address program objectives, and then methods are deployed to achieve the individual strategies, which are assessed for effectiveness and then either continued, altered or discontinued, depending o Continue Reading...
For Ann to succeed as a leader in her department and proceed in her ascend to more demanding roles within the hospital, there is an existing need for her to understand herself and how her peers view her. In so doing, she will be better placed to ge Continue Reading...
Also, it is worth mentioning that the salon can rely on a good balance between quality of services and prices.
Operations
The new salon's website must provide full information on the company's products, services, and prices. The working schedule a Continue Reading...
Business Review of VNA-TIP Homecare
Home healthcare and hospice providers pride themselves on their ability to provide the best quality care to the most needy patients. The mission of the Visiting Nurse Associations of America (VNAA) is "to support, Continue Reading...
RRL#1
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McMillan, S.C., & Small, B.J. (2007). Using the COPE intervention for family caregivers to improve symptoms of hospice homecare patients. Oncology Nursing Forum, 34(2), 313-21.
What is the purpose of t Continue Reading...
career of Home Health Nursing. With the baby boomer generation aging quickly, there will be an increased need for in home health care and home health nurses. This is a career with a future, since many aging and disabled patients want to remain in th Continue Reading...
Knowing this, Strenger points out that therapists need to consider "who can work with whom," because the therapeutic outcome may be greatly affected by the "chemistry" between therapist and client. The egalitarian principle in the therapeutic relati Continue Reading...
Living Arrangements Among the Elderly
This is an eight page paper concerning the diversity in living arrangements among the elderly. There are six references used.
Introduction
People today are living longer, which means there is a large elderly po Continue Reading...
Policy, Politics and Global Trends in Health Sector
The goal of this policy paper is to provide the strategy to align effort transforming the health healthcare in the United States. The policy brief is also to improve the quality of healthcare deliv Continue Reading...
Mr. P is suffering cardiomyopathy, congestive heart failure, 4+ pitting edema, labored breathing, and an inability to stick to a restricted diet or manage his polypharmacy. He is 76-years-old and in a state of declining health. The medical bills are Continue Reading...