" Prescription drugs invade the markets today only to mask the symptoms of disease instead of preventing disease from happening. In this back-end approach to fighting disease instead of preventing it from occurring in the first place, pharmaceutical Continue Reading...
Regardless of one's personal opinion on the issue, it is difficult to determine which is the best course of action regarding nursing practices and the development of evidence-based guidelines for nursing practice. Unfortunately, in an issue where su Continue Reading...
Within the profession itself, there are many ethical debates, pertaining to medications, such as prescribing psychotropic drugs like antidepressants to adolescents, the correct times to use palliative care at the end of a patient's life, the ethics Continue Reading...
Electronic Medical Records While history counts the inventor of paper among the hundred most influential people in the history of mankind, the services of paper have proven to be doubtful during floods, earthquakes, fires and other disasters. With t Continue Reading...
Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Today, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) operates the nation's largest healthcare system through the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), including 152 medical centers (VA Continue Reading...
AIDS -- it boosts appetite in patients who are experiencing severe weight loss. Neurological disorders, including spinal cord injury and multiple scleroses -- it reduces pain and spasticity that results from nerve damage. Inflammatory pain -- it Continue Reading...
Among its proposed health benefits, it is said to bear a direct relationship to certain mental processes which impact learning and reasoning aptitudes. According to research which is notably tied to the endorsement of a particular brand of the Fish Continue Reading...
This case study of George, age 48, presents a classic Type A personality. George operates under a consistently high level of emotional and physical stress. While some of this stress is the result of his work, part of it is also self-imposed and is th Continue Reading...
The Tuskegee Experiment was conducted between the year 1932 and 1972 and intended to study the course of untreated syphilis. It was a federally funded experiment, and none of the African American men with syphilis in Macon County suspected that the m Continue Reading...
The Pandemic Vaccines and E-Cigarettes: Online Health MisinformationIncreasingly, online advice has become to dominate peoples healthcare decisions, versus guidelines issued by professional medical and health government agencies. When vaccines for po Continue Reading...
Technology, Care Coordination, and Community Resources ConsiderationsThere are several ways in which health care technology, coordination of care, and community resources can be applied to address the challenges faced by individuals with quadriplegia Continue Reading...
The master patient index (MPI) value was mainly liked by the personnel in the medical record section. The Golden 90s Equipped with MPI and record-keeping growth, software designers sustained to generate and progress with a new emphasis on individu Continue Reading...
The diffused infrared configuration however, uses a transmitter that fills a given office space with signals. The signal receiver can then be located anywhere in the office area in order to successfully receive the IR signal. The Spread spectrum L Continue Reading...
medical condition, delirium, and its relationship to the nursing profession. The paper is partially a literature review as well as a literary comparison. The Journal of Gerentologic Nursing defines delirium as "a syndrome characterized by the rapid Continue Reading...
This could pose additional threats (Brimacombe, Antunes and McIntyre, 2001). There are also two arguments which reveal the overstatement of the estimations. The first refers to the fact that the tax structures are taken as constants, when in fact m Continue Reading...
Health Care -- Risk Management -- Session Plan The simple, general definition of "insurance" undergoes numerous variations according to the natures of insureds and of possible claimants. A healthcare organization, by virtue of its complexity, may be Continue Reading...
"You could say that anything that makes you feel better," Bock says, "whether chocolate or sex or invigorating exercise or a relaxing evening (depending on one's condition or circumstances), is good for you and could be viewed as medicine. Indeed, m Continue Reading...
Domestic Partners Risk/Implications The cost and value of offering domestic partner benefits: A letter to the Board of Directors The Children's Hospital of Dallas is committed to hiring the most qualified applicants, regardless of their sexual or Continue Reading...
patient or clients with Down's syndrome have continued to live longer as evident in the recent past, they are at high risk of developing Dementia, especially Alzheimer's, at an earlier stage than others. The ability of these individuals to live long Continue Reading...
Lack of physical activity and exercises increase the risk of early death by 23%, hence, showing the significance of physical activity and exercise. Incorporating other unhealthy lifestyle behaviors such as smoking, abusing alcohol, and abuse of othe Continue Reading...
The Multiple Benefits of Saliva for Humans Besides the more commonly known benefits of minimizing halitosis, keeping the mouth moist and comfortable,, making food taste better and easier to swallow, there are also a number of other lesser-known but s Continue Reading...
It is suggested that the benefits of the technique far outweigh any possible objections. Personally, I find myself convinced. It is important to provide women with as many equal opportunity work options as possible. The authors make very good argume Continue Reading...
SYNTHESIS Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), glucose intolerance recognized during pregnancy, affects approximately 7% of all pregnancies in the United States. GDM, diagnosed by an abnormal oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) done during the second Continue Reading...
Risk Management and Legal MattersTable of Contents1. Introduction2. Company Description3. Business SWOT Analysis4. Entrepreneurial Competencies5. Conclusion6. Business Strategy 2a. Entrepreneurial Strategy and Goalsb. Business Strategyc. Missiond. Vi Continue Reading...
Integration in the CI/HUMINT Community An Analysis of the Benefits of Integration in the CI/HUMINT Community and Strategies for Effective Implementation Shea Larson The success of any counterinsurgency operation depends largely on the effectivene Continue Reading...
Ethical Dilemma: case study of clinical trial on a child The field of medicine and research has been surrounded by issue of experiments in order to have the conclusive result of the effectiveness of a drug or otherwise. These results can only be obt Continue Reading...
World-Wide Concepts, Inc. (World-Wide): Risk avoidance Because World-Wide Concepts, Inc. is an internationally-based company with operations in a wide variety of sectors spanning across the developing as well as the developed world, it must proceed Continue Reading...
Lochol This prescription medicine is a hard capsule, which comes in sizes 1 and 3 and in 20 mg and in 10 mg (MIMS, 2010). Manufactured by Clonmel Healrhcare Ltd., its active ingredient is fluvastatin. Size 3 has 20 mg of the active ingredient and wi Continue Reading...
MedSun Patton-Fuller Community Hospital The need for reporting on adverse events related to medical device usage has never before been more salient. Medical technology has certainly been responsible for improving the quality of care, the quality of Continue Reading...
Gamification in Mental Healthcare There is no doubt that we have had decades of research geared at developing new and more effective treatments for mental conditions ranging from autism to anxiety, from schizophrenia to depression and so on. What is Continue Reading...
Starring Hugh Grant, Gene Hackman, and Sarah Jessica Parker, the 1996 film Extreme Measures addresses classic bioethics principles. The most significant ethical principle the film presents is related to testing on human subjects. However, this subjec Continue Reading...
Organ Donation There is a space for a small pink sticker on everyone's driver's license which you choose to affix or to leave off of the identification. The sticker signifies that, should you be in a car accident and are declared to be brain-dead wi Continue Reading...
Advanced Practice Nursing Advanced Practice RN's in the Home Health Care Arena Identification of the phenomenon. There is an urgent need for APRN services in the home health care environment. That is the pivotal position this paper proposes to pu Continue Reading...
EHR Database and Data Management Database Management Approach The issue to address is the negative effects of drugs. Adverse reaction to drugs is "a significantly unpleasant or dangerous response caused by an intervention that is linked with using Continue Reading...
ACIST CVi Angiographic Imaging System The ACIST CVi is an angiographic imaging system used to diagnose diseases and treat over 15 million patients globally. The ACIST CVi is able to simplify a contrast injection using all procedure ranging from smal Continue Reading...
MARIJUANA POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE ASPECTS OF LEGALIZING MARIJUANA Debates over the legalization of marijuana have existed for a long time in my community. As people foresee the possibility of its legalization shortly as it has happened in other state Continue Reading...
Toxic Contaminations from Transportation One of the most dangerous perils of global transportation that remain unknown to many is toxic contaminations from the various modes of transportation. Rail, sea, road, air and pipeline transportation are wel Continue Reading...
