Patient histories can often provide a great deal of information about their condition and what the underlying causes may be. As such, taking an accurate patient history can be one of the most important aspects of a patient's visit to a medical facil Continue Reading...
Running Head: CAPSTONE PROJECT 8CAPSTONE PROJECTAbstractVirtual health care has offered sustenance during a universal health crisis with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. As COVID-19 continues spreading its arms and affecting thousands of people wo Continue Reading...
in "Piaf," Pam Gems provides a view into the life of the great French singer and arguably the greatest singer of her generation -- Edith Piaf. (Fildier and Primack, 1981), the slices that the playwright provides, more than adequately trace Continue Reading...
Informally, each time the nurse interacts with the patient they can provide information; formally, training on specific medications, or procedures; or explaining to the family situations about upcoming tests, operations, or expectations, can be most Continue Reading...
One issue which has gained in public attention in recent years, first with the outbreak of SARS and avian flu, and more recently with the spread of swine flu, is that of public health epidemic. A failure to disclose health concerns properly or to al Continue Reading...
Nursing Assessment Taking the history of a patient is a crucial aspect of patient assessment and treatment. A good history can mean the difference between a successful patient outcome and unsatisfactory outcomes. However, taking a complete and usefu Continue Reading...
This is the strategy used in Canada, where drug costs have been substantially reduced. The challenges presented by this law have spilled over into the current health-care reform debate. Many people and many legislators who might have been more open Continue Reading...
More is learned every day in the field of medicine and nursing, and articles such as this one serve to point out that there is much more that needs to be learned. Serving the elderly population with Alzheimer's disease and treating them for their pr Continue Reading...
Lesbian Health Care Lesbian Health Issues in a Heterosexual Society The additional burdens placed on the lives of minorities as a result of social exclusion can lead to health disparities. Social exclusion theory has been used in previous research Continue Reading...
Another factor in open source database vendors leading this area is the focus on multiple models for scalability as can be seen in Table 1: DBMS Features Analysis. The support of multiple models of scalability also concentrates on OLTP transaction i Continue Reading...
Pathopharmacological Foundation Asthma Analyze the Pathophysiology of Asthma The complex chronic inflammatory disease known as asthma, involves several inflammatory cells, more than a hundred distinct mediators of inflammation, and various inflamm Continue Reading...
" (2003) It is reported in the work of Morrow (2009) that prior to palliative sedation being considered the team of people caring for the patient or the palliative care team "…will look at many possible options to help relieve suffering, such Continue Reading...
Jacob Riis emigrated from Denmark to the United States in 1870 and after realizing the extent of the squalor evident in some of New York City's neighborhoods, started to chronicle the lives of America's poor through the medium of photography. Riis wa Continue Reading...
However, it is possible that there could have been more opportunities for increased power in all facets of my life. If I show more maturity, it is possible that I can gain more power at home. In school if I continue to excel and be responsible for m Continue Reading...
Out of about 40 million slaves that were transported from African to the United States, only 15 million of them could survive, however they ended up in pure hell. It was expected of the African-Americans to meet the demands of two ideas, both of whi Continue Reading...
Hospitals Health care in the United States has evolved through governmental and private answers to historical trends, starting with the first days of the United States. Often arising as responses to serious gaps in health care, these remedies tradit Continue Reading...
Psychiatric Readmission Implementation of Strategies to Reduce Psychiatric Readmission To this end, it is clear that hospital readmission remains a prevalent phenomenon in adult psychiatric patients, placing a huge morbidity and economic burden on Continue Reading...
Hypertension Essential hypertension or primary hypertension is a highly complex disorder. There are various factors modulating BP or blood pressure in order for adequate tissue perfusion to occur. These include: Vascular reactivity Vascular calib Continue Reading...
Health Screening Biographical Data Cathy is a 17-year-old female. She is suffering from a certain amounts of loneliness and depression (DSM-IV). This is because her mother died in Iraq 10 years ago when serving in the Army Reserves. She is current Continue Reading...
EMS in Trauma SystemsOutlineI. Introduction (300 words)A. Importance of EMS in trauma systems1. Rapid response to emergencies2. Critical role in patient outcomesB. Components of a trauma system1. Prehospital care2. Hospital careII. Review of Literatu Continue Reading...
The Bible and Financial Concepts Introduction The Bible is quite clear on how one should orient oneself in this life towards Heaven and pursuing the kingdom of God (Matt 6:33). However, in the financial world of today, this orientation can easily be Continue Reading...
History Resurrection The History of Resurrection Tradition According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, the word 'resurrection' stands for "the state of one risen from the dead." Generally, resurrection refers to restoration to life of the person who i Continue Reading...
As if to instantly affirm the principle that progress cannot continue on a simple and direct path, the Romans came after the Greeks and took medicine on a new and far less rigorous path. Seeing the Greeks and their dependence on physicians as effem Continue Reading...
This 1996 Act was part of a Civil Rights concern that as information became more electronically disseminated, it would lead to misuse of that information (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2010). Certainly, one of the benefits of electro Continue Reading...
Difficult Patients Mitigating Risks from Dementia Providing adequate care for an individual suffering from dementia presents many difficulties for nurses. Patients with dementia often have debilitating conditions such as Alzheimer's or similar neu Continue Reading...
working for a community mental health agency that serves male adolescents aged 14-16 who have received a diagnosis of conduct disorder. You have been asked by your director of clinical training to answer the following questions (choose only one): a) Continue Reading...
, 1998). It is hard to know where the boundary stops between psychological and physical illness, since the two are, often intimately combined with one affecting the other. QOL, as De Vries and Drent (2008) point out is often confounded with state of Continue Reading...
Demographic Perception Survey of Patients with Atypical CP Who Present to Cardiac Care Doctors and Patient Outcomes This study intends to examine gender differences in individuals who present to cardiac doctors with chest pain and specifically, atyp Continue Reading...
Bed -Profit Health Care Organization A detailed organizational chart for your new facility Each and every department of the hospital is responsible for performing certain type of assigned tasks but still departments are grouped together according t Continue Reading...
UsingtheAACNSynergyModel AACN Synergy Model for Patient Care Case Study of a CHF Patient Sonya Hardin, RN, PhD, CCRN, CS Leslie Hussey, RN, PhD role as a clinical nurse specialist (CNS)/adult nurse practitioner (ANP). The advanced practice nurs Continue Reading...
Both healers could learn how to incorporate techniques that may be different from their respective cultures into how they treat medical conditions. Ultimately Lia was put into foster care because the doctor believed that the parents were not caring Continue Reading...
Holistic Nursing Care Plan for Terminally Ill Patient The objective of this study is to create a holistic nursing care plan for a terminally ill patient. This study will explain how perceptions about quality of life and health promotion might affect Continue Reading...
Incarcerated Mentally Ill Patients It may sound unbelievable, but on any given day, scholars estimate that almost 70,000 inmates in U.S. prisons are psychotic; and up to 300,000 suffer from mental disorders like depression, schizophrenia, and bipola Continue Reading...
Aortic dissection is a disease of the wall of the aorta in which the aortic blood bursts into the muscular layer of the great artery, thus forming a blood filled channel along the planes of the muscularis layer. This false lumen can re-rupture back i Continue Reading...
94). The modern legal definition of disease provides a useful starting point for an examination of the concept of disease and how it is regarded by various disciplines. According to Black's Law Dictionary (1990), disease is a "deviation from the he Continue Reading...
