Medical care at Home Vs. Medical Care at the HospitalAround 4.5 million people in the United States require end-of-life or long-term care annually. Also, the United States has, in a pretty big way, changed healthcare delivery perspectives within the Continue Reading...
Health Nursing Healthcare Perspectives Deontology Deontology decides what one should and should not do based on what is fundamentally right and wrong. It basis ethical theory on what is morally required by duty, what is forbidden or wrong accordin Continue Reading...
Facts and Court Holding Karen Ann Quinlan attracted national attention following her slipping into a comma in 1975. In essence, the Quinlan case remains a key reference point in discussions revolving around the right to die. According to Drane (1994) Continue Reading...
VHA Mental Health Care Very recently, beginning in 1995 the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) began a series of progressive reforms. The reform has included a substantive list of functional and fundamental changes, including everything from facil Continue Reading...
Finite Health Care Resources Cutting health care costs is becoming a serious issue for the government and for medical corporations and patients throughout the U.S. today. There are several ways in which these costs can be cut, and one of those ways Continue Reading...
, 2007). The nurses at the medical-surgical, trauma, neurological, cardiovascular, cardiology and transplant sections directly and personally confront the various needs of families of the death of a loved one. One nursing author, Jane Felgen, set for Continue Reading...
The quality of life was another issue addressed in research of the use of feeding tubes with patients who have dementia (Finucane, 2001). Robert MCCann, MD reports that the everyday imagery of food and its pleasant addition to life cannot be ignor Continue Reading...
Leadership design at Lands' end Integrity How deep are your convictions on things you count on? Exactly what do you count on A Lot about your work that you will withstand anybody about it? Just how much are you about to jeopardize your crucial bel Continue Reading...
Living With Incurable Cancer at the End of Life-Patients' Perceptions on Quality of Life Johansson, Christina Melin RN, Phd-student; Axelsson, Bertil MD, PhD; Danielson, Ella RN, PhD This article is either a qualitative or a quantitative research s Continue Reading...
On this matter, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi stated, "Congressional leaders have no business substituting their judgment for that of multiple state courts that have extensively considered the issues in this intensely personal family matter." Continue Reading...
Beauty and Life of the Monarch Butterfly This is a paper about the Monarch Butterfly. What animal kingdom is it from? Listed is the life cycle of the butterfly. What are the adaptations of the Monarch Butterfly? THE BEAUTY OF THE MONARCH BUTTERFLY Continue Reading...
SINGER Euthanasia The Singer debate 'are there some lives not worth living:' The sanctity of life and utilitarianism Professor Peter Singer is a well-known utilitarian who advocates the right of parents to commit infanticide based upon utilitaria Continue Reading...
Suicide The natural end of every person life on earth is dying. A lot of people, for motives that have never been fully comprehended, want to take their own lives. This action is what is called suicide, which means exactly "self-killing." For all do Continue Reading...
Independent Life: Leila's Stubborn Family Ties in Ng's Novel Bone In Bone: A Novel, by Fae Myenne Ng, the Chinese-American protagonist, a recently-married young woman named Leila Louie, oldest of three sisters, is still torn between looking out mor Continue Reading...
Legal and Ethical Issues in Healthcare Healthcare ethics have to do with the wide range of moral decisions that have to be made in medical practice. These are the other considerations that have to be made besides the regular policies and procedures d Continue Reading...
Roles and ValuesA. Discuss the evidenced-based practice regarding advance directive DNRNursing care is purposed to meet the comprehensive needs of both the patients and their families throughout their healthcare process. This is especially fundamenta Continue Reading...
Interprofessional Care and Leadership to Improve Patient and Population HealthIntroductionThe Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Nurse Leader can help to foster interprofessional collaboration by creating teams composed of professionals from different Continue Reading...
Healthcare is one of the most important arenas for applied ethics and social justice. The concept of universal healthcare can be considered from a number of different ethical standpoints including consequential and deontological perspectives (Daniels Continue Reading...
Morality of Assisted Suicide Assisted suicide for terminally ill patients may be one of the most morally complex issues facing today's society, with a particular impact on modern healthcare workers. Modern medicine has progressed to a point where, Continue Reading...
Jewish Client When discussing medical care with Sara, one must keep in mind that she is alone now, having been married for 50 years, but now widowed. She seems to have a rather active social circle, and is more of a middle-of -- the road practitione Continue Reading...
Wit and NursingIn the film Wit, Nurse Susie Monahan represents the concept of compassionate care. Her interactions with Vivian show how important empathy, kindness, and compassion actually are in nursing. Unlike other healthcare professionals in the Continue Reading...
Quality Care Clinic (QCC) will aid in meeting current health needs, improving access to care, and providing high quality patient-centered care for citizens in Carson City. QCC will offer efficient, safe, effective, timely, and unbiased primary care Continue Reading...
Maximize Quality of Life in Old Age As an individual advances in age, his/her risk of acquiring aging-related conditions increases. Understanding that such conditions (i.e., arthritis, memory loss, hip fractures, etc.) don't form a part of normal a Continue Reading...
NURSING CRITIQUE ON LAW: LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF PALLIATION: RE-EVALUATING RONALD LINDSAY'S EVALUATION OF THE OREGON DEATH WITH DIGNITY ACT BY DURANTE (2009) The objective of this study is to critique the work of Durante (2009) entitled "Li Continue Reading...
Suicide," an act of suicide is defined as an event when "an otherwise healthy victim has, without any outside pressure, willfully arranged the circumstance that brought around his or her death." The process of clearly defining circumstance and actio Continue Reading...
puritan life was heavily contaminated by death. Half of the original 102 pilgrims that settled in America died during the first winter and it was not uncommon for children to perish before they reached adolescence. Funerals were a common occurrence Continue Reading...
Rates of volunteering have also increased 64% for Americans ages 65 years and over since 1974. Additionally, the proportion of Americans volunteering for an educational or youth group has increased 63% since 1989. In light of the increased interest Continue Reading...
The demon even sent beautiful women to tempt the Buddha, but nothing would sway him from his determination to find the ultimate meaning of life (Editors). Therefore, the truth is that historians do not know exactly how Buddha actually attained enli Continue Reading...
photo novellas to test the creative aptitude of nurses working in oncology and palliative care. Researchers asked how they defined spirituality and were told to select between four to six photographs out of a photo novella they captured from their w Continue Reading...
Niacin and Increased Cholesterol Levels For most people struggling with undesirable levels of cholesterol that cannot be enhanced sufficiently through diet and exercise, prescribed statin drugs are usually the recommended treatment options. One of t Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples 1. The Evolution of Nursing Care Practices: This essay would explore the history of nursing, highlighting the developments in patient care from Florence Nightingale's era to the present day. It would exam Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples 1. The Evolution of Long-Term Care: Historic Trends and Future Challenges: This essay topic would explore the history of long-term care services, examining how they have evolved over time in response to Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples 1. The Evolution of Long-Term Care: Explore the historical development of long-term care services, from informal family care to the modern-day facilities and in-home care services. Discuss how societal ch Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples 1. The Intersection of Aging Demographics and Long-Term Care Demand: Explore how the aging population is impacting the demand for long-term care services. Analyze statistical trends, project future needs, Continue Reading...
Religion and Spirituality According to Ferrell & Coyle (2010), religion and spirituality both fall under the rubric of "experiencing transcendence," (p. 14). The difference between religion and spirituality is in the ways transcendence is codifi Continue Reading...
Building Caring Relationships With Students This paper is on building caring relationships between teachers and students. Research and experience indicates that schools with small classrooms as in having a restricted number of students are a great Continue Reading...
orientation in marketing of the Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society. The ELGSS is a not for profit health care organization with 238 nursing and health care facilities throughout the United States. Founded in the early 1920's as a care home Continue Reading...
