A Genetic Disorder - Down Syndrome
Course material - 7 pages - Medical studies
Down syndrome is also referred to as trisomy 21 is a genetic disorder that occurs due to the presence of all or some of the third copy of chromosome 21 (Head et al., 2016). The disorder is characterized by delays in physical growth, moderate intellectual disability, and characteristic facial...
Broadening perspectives on reflective nursing practice
Diploma Thesis - 4 pages - Medical studies
Reflective practice is an approach to learning through experience. It promotes the continual development of a nurse and helps nurses gain knowledge to challenge their prior concepts and ideas. Reflection involves seeing what happened through a new perspective that helps in personal growth and in...
Mentoring and clinical supervision
Practical guide - 4 pages - Medical studies
In an effort to maximize benefit and reduce harm, clinical supervision is centered on collegial relationships rather than power dynamics. It is a procedure that can aid qualified physicians in resolving issues, enhancing productivity, and provide a platform for discussion and development. In...
Children living with Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Worksheets - 4 pages - Medical studies
The maturation of the brain begins at the conception and is continuous after birth. All trouble of cerebral tissues before, during and after birth can affect certain part of brain and, depending on the degree of injury, can cause a permanent trouble characterized by the progressive injury.
New digital tools for hospitals - CHU Saint-Pierre
Presentation - 12 pages - Medical studies
This presentation gives points as to why hospitals need new digital tools to treat and take care of their patients.
Considerations when recruiting foreign nurses and the ethics of international recruitment
Essay - 3 pages - Medical studies
The nursing shortage has always been one of the biggest concerns in the healthcare field. Since nurses make up the majority of the healthcare workforce, many solutions for this problem have been presented: improving recruitment, offering opportunities for advancement, suggesting contracts with...
Advanced knowledge for nurse educators
Essay - 6 pages - Medical studies
Concerns are raised concerning the safety of patients as cases of error and injury escalate globally. To improve the security of patients, nurses are thus supposed to recognize variations in the condition of the patient. Besides, they should be in a position to anticipate orders, prioritize and...
Dental informatics
Essay - 3 pages - Medical studies
Dental Informatics is a relatively new field which has gained popularity in proportion to the increasing use of computer systems in dental practices. Sittig, Mirshner, and Maupome define dental informatics as "Application of computer and information science to improve dental practice, research...
Genetically modified foods: a feeding system in need of improvement?
Essay - 4 pages - Medical studies
Genetically engineered food has become a very controversial topic over the past few decades, and the issue continues to gain importance as more companies are producing genetically engineered/modified foods. The process of genetic engineering involves taking food products, alternating their...
Why does nursing care differ for patients who suffer from dementia?
Essay - 2 pages - Medical studies
Dementia is one of the most difficult symptoms for patients to cope with. There are three main forms of dementia. The most common cause, Alzheimer's disease, is responsible for dementia. It afflicts 4 million Americans (Dolhi and Rogers, 2001). It is a degenerative disease that affects the brain...
The analysis of the link between posttraumatic stress disorder, stress-induced cortisol production, and heart disease
Case study - 5 pages - Medical studies
A number of links between posttraumatic stress disorder, cortisol, and heart disease have been established, although the final synthesis has yet to be developed. The pure correlation between heart disease and posttraumatic stress disorder has become a standard conclusion. Recent studies have...
Lyme disease: history, causes & transmission, effects & symptoms, diagnosis, treatments, prevention
Essay - 4 pages - Medical studies
Lyme disease begins as an infection caused by black-legged ticks. Usually living in wooded areas such as forests, these ticks can attach themselves to the skin of humans and bite them, infecting them a bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi (CDC 2008). Several days or weeks after such a bite, a...
Whether vegetarianism is good for the heart
Essay - 5 pages - Medical studies
Although many people believe that eating meat is part of a healthy diet, and eating this way is as nature intended, vegetarianism is a popular growing trend among many individuals who are attempting to improve their health. It is a difficult choice to make, and while there are many reasons to...
Smallpox and vaccination in the 19th century
Essay - 2 pages - Medical studies
During the 19th century, medicine and technology were two things very far behind what they are today. There were no guidelines on how to treat patients, and epidemics arose due to the poor standards of living. Therefore, when smallpox broke out, there were many reactions to the incredible...
Cancer patients receiving hospice care
Essay - 2 pages - Medical studies
Generally, cancer is a group of diseases that involve abnormal cell growth and the abnormal cell growth has the potential to spread to other body parts. The cancer condition is also referred to as a malignant tumor, but this does not mean all tumors are cancerous. On the other hand, hospice...
Pathophysiology of presenting features - Case based assignment
Essay - 3 pages - Medical studies
Conventionally, the sensation of uncomfortable or difficulty in breathing experienced by John is normally referred to as Dyspnea. The Dyspnea on exertion (DOE) that John reports normally is considered an indication of disease because it occurred at a level of activity that he usually tolerates....
Cancer patients receiving hospital care
Essay - 2 pages - Medical studies
Cancer which is well known as the malignancy, is the unusual growth of cells in the body. Different patients who are having cancer suffer from different types of cancer, which is approximately one hundred. The patient treatment of cancer also varies depending on the type of cancer which include,...
Are bio active-rich fractions functionally richer?
Tutorials/exercises - 8 pages - Medical studies
Plant bioresources are relied upon as natural, inexpensive, and sustainable remedies for the management of several chronic diseases worldwide. Plants have historically been consumed for medicinal purposes based on traditional belief, but this trend is currently changing. The growing interest in...
Healthy alternatives to prescription medications
Essay - 5 pages - Medical studies
Prescriptions that are made for various health problems under conventional Western medical practice often have alternative interventions that are mainly drawn from traditional methods of treatment in various parts of the world. Remarkably, there are a lot of non medicinal interventions that...
Childbirth booth camp : natural childbirth and care
Essay - 5 pages - Medical studies
A childbirth boot camp offers information and knowledge on natural childbirth as well as other topics related with childbirth and care. These camps are mainly designed for educational purposes. This paper provides an examination of current trends in Childbirth Education. In this regard, the...
Active care rehabilitation for patients suffering from back pain
Essay - 2 pages - Medical studies
Active care rehabilitation is the use of different methods of treatments, mostly involving exercises, to facilitate the recovery from injury or a procedure to ensure that the patient regains the original or normal working of the different functional abilities as they did before the injury or...
Lassa fever in West Africa
Essay - 12 pages - Medical studies
This paper focuses on Lassa fever in West Africa. The Lassa virus that causes the fever has been considered a member of Old World Arenaviruses. In this regard, it has been solely considered endemic in West Africa. Its full endemicity is nevertheless unclear especially given the poor contact means...
Does displaying nutritional information in fast food restaurants impact consumers ?
Essay - 22 pages - Medical studies
In Western societies food is usually readily available, but poor nutritional choices have been linked to poor health as well as to such things as diabetes, obesity and heart disease. Often these choices involve fast food. (NHS Choices, undated):- The observed association between the number of...
Data mining as a methodology for extracting hidden knowledge from breast cancer patient's
Essay - 5 pages - Medical studies
Modern monitoring devices among other data collection devices have helped health care organization reduce their cost of collecting and storing data. Specialized tools that come with such equipment have made the entire data collection and storage process more effective thereby easing management's...
Do lung epithelia in copd undergo transition to behave more like fibroblasts ?
Essay - 22 pages - Medical studies
Various respiratory conditions like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma and pulmonary fibrosis are known to cause the degeneration of respiratory tissues such as the epithelial tissue. In regard to this issue, this study tries to establish whether lung epithelia in COPD undergo...
The evolving role of the nurse practitioner and consensus model
Essay - 1 pages - Medical studies
Full Practice Authority for NPs is a significant legal issue that limits the role of NPs and affects health and care delivery. The range of activities that the nurse practitioner should practice is legally regulated by the licensing state and is a controversial issue in the medical community.
Neurocognitive Outcomes of Type 1 Diabetes in Children
Essay - 8 pages - Medical studies
Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) is a disease caused by the inability of the body to produce insulin. As a result of the human defenses against autoimmune disorders, insulin producing cells in the body are identified as foreign and therefore targeted by immune cells for destruction. Insulin is a...
On Slavery - a history of slavery and antislavery
Case study - 3 pages - Medical studies
Slavery is forced labor. In some quarters, it is considered the biggest tragedy in the history of humankind. Slavery is perceived as degrading and robbing people of their dignity and right to freedom. However, despite the negativity associated with slavery, slavery is not necessarily a bad thing...
Forensic Evidence - Making of the Fittest
Case study - 2 pages - Medical studies
Suspect identification is a complex process in the justice system. It is aimed at identifying perpetrators of crime by eliminating people from the list of possible suspect. In contemporary times, advancement in technology has seen the use of advanced techniques in forensic analysis to identify...
Political Theory review - Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, Marx, K
Case study - 3 pages - Medical studies
The advanced learner's dictionary defines alienation as a state of being isolated from a group or activities that a person should be a part of. For example, keeping a person from their families fits in to the definition of alienation. There are many other applications of alienation, but this...
