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Best Practices for the Pain Management of Broken Hips
Achieving the Institute of Medicine's goal of ensuring that 90% of health care decisions are evidence-based by 2020 will require identifying current gaps between research, findings, and practice Continue Reading...
OUTLINE: HALOPERIDOL Outline: Haloperidol (HALDOL)DescriptionHaloperidol (marketed as HALDOL) is among the major antipsychotic medication (FDA, 2017)Its chemical designation is 4-[4-(p-chlorophenyl)-4-hydroxypiperidino]-4-fluorobutyrophenone and the Continue Reading...
Identifying Opportunities to Reduce Income Disparities in South Africa Today and In the FutureDespite the end of apartheid in the early 1990s, South Africa remains racially and economically segregated. The country is beset by persistent social inequa Continue Reading...
The potential study that would be conducted for collecting numerical data is finding the connection between healthy aging and having a marital partner (spouse) among older adults. It is the selected and proposed quantitative research topic for this p Continue Reading...
A secondary mortgage market permits mortgage originators to be more responsive to dynamic mortgage demand and to lower mortgage rates for some homeowners when mortgage demand is higher. According to Koppell (2001):
Government-sponsored enterprises Continue Reading...
Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response for Natural Disasters or Terrorists Attacks in Florida
Emergency management has been described regarding the phases by using words such as prepare. Mitigate, respond and recover. For this paper, we are go Continue Reading...
Sundowning Syndrome: Etiology and Treatment
An escalation in disruptive behaviors in the late afternoon and early evening among institutionalized patients suffering from dementia and Alzheimer's disease has been a recognized phenomenon for over 60 y Continue Reading...
HARMONIZING PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL BALANCE: STUDY OF EMPLOYERS' FAMILY FRIENDLY POLICIES IN THE U.K.
This study seeks to show that there are several different family friendly policies being utilized by employers in the U.K. And that these have be Continue Reading...
How Did Mayor Bill de Blasios COVID Lockdowns Affect Access to Healthcare for the Minority Population in Tremont?Chapter 1IntroductionThe panic regarding the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic led to new administrative challenges regarding protecting and serving Continue Reading...
Covid 19 Pandemic Continues To Threaten the Survival of Human Service OrganizationsCovid 19 has impacted the physical, mental, and social lives of human beings from all dimensions. Despite the growing needs of social services firms or community-based Continue Reading...
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Reason for visit by patient
A female patient aged 48 years old reports to the outpatient clinic that she suffers from persistent fatigue. She says that the problem has persisted for several months. She further says that she also feels depr Continue Reading...
Health promoting lifestyle of university students in Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional assessment
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Objective
This study was designed to assess the health-promoting lifestyle of students in health colleges and non-health colleges.in Saudi Arabia Continue Reading...
I also began to realize that due to the fact that any family is a complex and often unique entity in itself, that there are many subtle and underlying aspects to alcoholism in the family that are often not visible at first sight. Many of the intervi Continue Reading...
The management of diabetes in older adults
is a complex and critical aspect of geriatric care that requires an understanding of the unique challenges and considerations posed by aging. Age has a significant impact on diabetes management, wherein old Continue Reading...
Deaf Ears: An Exercise in Understanding
The hearing world intersects with the deaf world all the time. As a hearing person, I count many hearing impaired people as friends and I feel that I generally have a good sense of what they go through to mak Continue Reading...
Furthermore, it is agreed that those who are working tend to earn low wages, about $7.00 per hour on average, thus making it difficult for them to support their families (Sawhill pp). Another concern is that the poverty rate has not fallen as much a Continue Reading...
How Did Mayor Bill de Blasios COVID Lockdowns Affect Access to Healthcare for the Minority Population in Tremont?Chapter 1IntroductionThe panic regarding the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic led to new administrative challenges regarding protecting and serving Continue Reading...
Introduction
Dementia is a degenerative cognitive health issue that primarily affects the elderly population and is characterized by “impairments in cognitive and intellectual ability, memory, language, reasoning, and judgment,” all of wh Continue Reading...
Pharmacology Case Study ScenariosScenario 1: Mark Johnson (72 years old, DVT Treatment with Warfarin)ProblemMark is on warfarin (5 mg daily) for Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) and has a history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and osteoarthritis. He is a Continue Reading...
Development of Self-Identity through Media-Influenced Body ImageIntroductionThe formation of self-identity is a major part of psychosocial development according to numerous researchers and scholars (Lumen, 2021). Erikson developed a model of psychoso Continue Reading...
Perception of Touch
The author of this report shall be offering a literature review on a particular subject. The subject in question is the perception and sensation of touch. While this subject may seem very basic and simple to a lot of people, it i Continue Reading...
Female genital mutilation should be stopped
Female Genital Mutilation or FGM can be explained as a procedure that is performed or inflicted on women and girls in some developing countries (Klein et al., 2018). FGM entails the altering or cutting of f Continue Reading...
Primary Care: Advanced Nurse Practitioners
In recent years, there has been a notable shortage of primary care physicians due to a number of systemic factors within the healthcare system, including the rising cost of medical school, which is driving m Continue Reading...
Population and Life ExpectancyAbstractIsabell Clerk writes about the anthropological study of India using a collection that is neither a primary review of various topics addressed over the years nor a survey of contemporary work. Instead, she uses a Continue Reading...
The recent COVID- pandemic has illustrated how devastating and disruptive health concerns can be for the overall economy. The pandemic has caused unprecedented economic disruption and loss of life throughout the world. Unfortunately, no country was i Continue Reading...
Chronic Illness: Coronary Heart Disease
Outline of Coronary Heart Disease
The Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) has been on the increase of late across the globe and this disease, alongside stroke have been the top causes of death in many countries like Continue Reading...
Food Safety Hazards of Livestock
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) tracks ongoing Eschericia coli outbreaks across the nation, including those arising from leafy green vegetables. For example, in 2012, 58 people were sickened by an E Continue Reading...
Euthanasia
The foremost contentious concern lately has been the issue of granting legal status to the right to die with dignity, or euthanasia. Similar to the issue of death sentence or suicide, euthanasia is contentious as it entails killing an ind Continue Reading...
The Impact of Telehealth
With the advent of telehealth, the landscape of healthcare delivery has undergone a transformative shift. Defined as the use of digital information and communication technologies, such as computers and mobile devices, for ac Continue Reading...
Respiratory Issues Complicated by Economic Disadvantage
Socio-economic status, commonly referred to as SES can be describes as the economic or social standing of an individual, and is a measure of the person’s economic or social position in a s Continue Reading...
Nursing Theory
The theory of nursing is built in a dynamic process that develops from practice and is normally reproduced through research, by development and analysis of concepts and theories. There is need to investigate further the phenomena see Continue Reading...
Ethnic nationality comes when a "consciousness of a shared identity within a group, rooted in a shared culture and a belief in common ancestry. Ethno-nationalism is a term that refers to nationalism based on this consciousness of ethnic nationality, Continue Reading...
Cigarettes
Why do people smoke? All of know that smoking is a dangerous, even potentially lethal habit - and one moreover that now carries an increasing weight of social stigma. And yet still people do it. There must therefore be compelling reasons Continue Reading...
Moreover, the increase in firearm-related homicide within this age group occurred among all race-sex groups (Fatal). Rates of suicide by firearm were especially high among the elderly in the United States, and increases occurred in all race-sex grou Continue Reading...