A health care practices and clinical skills paper concerning a patient suffering from anxiety and depression
Thesis - 6 pages - Psychology
The aim of this essay is to discuss health and maximizing the health and well being of a client with mental health problems. Factors, which can enhance the health and social well being of the client, such as anxiety management and relaxation therapy, will be identified; the role of the nurse in...
Can the use of EHR in healthcare settings increase patient safety and efficiency of work?
Essay - 7 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
Electronic health records come at a time when the hospital environment is undergoing a revolution with the idea of fully utilizing the benefits of communication technology. This is driven by the need for quality and efficiency of work in the hospital environment through improved record-keeping...
The importance of accurate diagnosis of the mentally
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
Assessment of a patient in an acute phase of mental illness could arguably be one of the most important tasks that a registered mental health nurse faces in their career. The importance of gaining the correct information at this critical stage leaves little margin for error. Sullivan (1990)...
Advanced clinical techniques/family centered practice with populations at risk (aging)
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
On April 29, 2006 at about 5:30 a.m., May C. fell in her kitchen in a rural area 10 miles west of Yakima, Washington. As she fell her right leg was thrust back while the rest of her body fell forward, resulting in a compound fracture of her right femur. May called her LifeLine service for help...
"The Significance of Comic Irreverence"
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
Irreverence in comedy has been at the forefront of recent comedic performances. In one television show, ‘The Office', depicts supervisor David Brent, performed by Ricky Gervais, as an irreverent ‘funny man'. In one episode, while orienting a new employee around the office, he listens to...
Prevention of elderly depression: A peer-reviewed literary review
Thesis - 4 pages - Psychology
This literature review will be comparing two quantitative research studies conducted by Devi et al. (2007) and Schoevers et al. (2006) on depression in elderly people. The studies highlighted the variable risk factors that make elderly people more susceptible to depression, and they present...
What's wrong with May?
Thesis - 6 pages - Medical studies
In April 2006, a 92-year-old Caucasian widow, May C., fell in her kitchen 10 miles west of Yakima, Washington, resulting in a compound fracture of her right femur. May called her LifeLine service for help and was transported to Providence Yakima Medical Center. Surgical repair of her leg was...
The Obesity Epidemic in the United States
Essay - 2 pages - Medical care & personal assistance
In nursing, dealing with obesity as a problem needs a broad view. Nurses can push for policy changes that make places healthier, like supporting areas that are easy to walk around or school fitness policies. They can also be accommodating in teaching and guiding patients, giving them the...
An Investigation in to the Effects of Poor Handwriting of Physicians
Essay - 4 pages - Medical studies
Introduction Shapiro (2004) notes that approximately 195,000 patients die each year as a result of medical errors. While scholars and researchers are working to address the myriad of causes that contribute to patient mortality in the healthcare setting, there is ample evidence to suggest that...
Neonate with severe hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy
Case study - 6 pages - Medical studies
This case study is about a neonate with severe Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy, therefore it will take into account pathophysiological, diagnostic and grading issues surrounding HIE, and how these reflect on prognosis; consideration to the ethical issues associated with withdrawal of intensive...
The management of change in midwifery practice
Thesis - 7 pages - Management
From relatively small initiatives in midwifery care, such as changes in shift rotas or new systems in record keeping, to major changes such as the introduction of midwifery-led beds or the “Team approach” continuous change has become an inherent part of professional lives. Whether it is...
Comparing the response to cholera in Zimbabwe with SARS response in Toronto - Public health systems in crisis
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
This is an article about two diseases: cholera and SARS. Pandemics today potentially can spread from one part of the globe to another. The spread of SARS from Hong Kong where it was first identified and isolated, to Toronto (which was particularly hard hit), in part has to do with the new...
Women during the Second World War (1939-1945)
Thesis - 10 pages - Modern history
The Second World War, which lasted from 1939 to 1945, was more terrible than the First World War. The First World War was fought in France, and did not have any particular villains. However, the Second World War involved conflict at the global level as almost all major nations of the world were...
Using research in midwifery
Thesis - 10 pages - Medical studies
Discuss the importance of research within midwifery, both in terms of appreciating and evaluating available papers and how the evidence is applied to practice. Pressure has increased on health care professionals, via government directives such as the National Health Service Plan (DOH 2002) and...
Perioperative procedures
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Provision of quality healthcare should be the ultimate goal of any health practitioner and institution. The process begins when a patient entrust their wellbeing to the practitioner. Be it a nurse, medical doctor, surgeon or pharmaceutical. One of the most important stages during surgical...
The public health environment in England: Focus on specific policies
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The nature of major causes of work-related ill health makes occupational health fit more closely than ever before into the public health agenda. The government has been quick to recognize the role of occupational health nurses in reaching the public health targets set in recent public health...
Longevity Healthcare Systems: Hunting for a marketing strategy
Essay - 8 pages - Services marketing
history that dates back to the mid ‘70s. Kathryn Hamilton and her husband have established a respectable company that originated from the need for long-term healthcare for their ailing parents. In essence, they have a good understanding for what families of long-term healthcare patients...
A critical analysis of a health promotion initiative
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
One of the fundamental roles of the nurse is the promotion and maintenance of health as declared by the Vienna Declaration on nursing (1988) and cited in Salvage (1993). This reflective account, will discuss the presentation of a health promotion initiative by a third year mental health...
Euthanasia
Case study - 6 pages - Medical studies
A dying patient challenged me during my internship in the 1st year of nursing in the gastro-enterology north-east ward of Erasme Hospital. I had seen this person for six days (from 12 to 18 April 2008), and during these few days, her son made a euthanasia request for his mother to the...
Primary Health Care
Case study - 3 pages - Medical studies
Primary health care (PHC) is a fundamental and consistent approach that facilitates a holistic, community-based opportunity to provide individuals and families with accessible, comprehensive care. It encompasses community, society, individuals and adapted, accessible services, which are at the...
The consecration of the patient's autonomy
Thesis - 11 pages - Medical studies
Pain, suffering and death are to some extent, inevitable in human life, though Health care must always seek to eliminate unnecessary suffering and untimely death. But it is easy to recognise that prolonging the process of dying us often undesirable. The difficulty encountered by medical teams is...
Different methods of birth control and their history
Essay - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Modern birth control went through many obstacles before it was available to the public. In the United States during the 19th and 20th centuries, birth control and contraceptives were social issues that were fraught with controversy. This backlash led to legislation (e.g. Comstock Law) being...
Corporate governance and ethical responsibility research paper
Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies
One of the top internal stakeholders within a hospital would have to be the actual doctors that run the day to day life of the patients. They make the ultimate decisions in split seconds that can save or lose the life of a patient. Doctors do make a lot of money but they can also be careless if...
Lethal injection: A violation of cruel and unusual punishment (8th Amendment)
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
In 1976 lethal injection became a legally sanctioned method of execution and was quickly adopted by the majority of states. In the thirty years since its implementation, lethal injection is still considered to be the most humane means of executing a death row inmate and is the preferred method...
Advertising and women: how advertisement has been directed to the US women
Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy
Prior to the Civil War, the life of most US women were influenced by what history commentators refer to us “the Cult of True Womanhood.” (http://www.history.com/topics/women-in-the-civil). Industrialization and other developments generated a shift in work customs, which saw men leaving...
Transversal case study - Montefiore Medical Center
Case study - 12 pages - Management
With more than 70,000 admissions per year, Montefiore Medical Center is one of the largest healthcare institutions in the United States and is the most dominant hospital in the Bronx borough of New York City, which is apparently one of the country's poorest neighborhoods. It has two major...
Physician-Assisted Suicide - published: 20/07/2008
Essay - 5 pages - Medical studies
My cousin died after battling a brain tumor for six years. Before being diagnosed, she had moved to Dallas, got engaged and planned to be a teacher. At her time of death, she did not even look like the same person. One of my mother's closest friends, Joan, a registered nurse, died of cancer a few...
Paradise Valley Hospital case study
Case study - 25 pages - Labor law
Karen Vogel - Director of Nursing Conflict - DON vs. Hospital Administrator Mr. Anderson's philosophy: “If you leave a problem alone long enough and it will go away” Karen sought guidance and support Mr. Anderson: “do your job or let someone else do it” Karen agreed...
Invention of current modernization by earlier modernizations
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Early men lived in caves, used crude weapons for hunting and relied on gathering wild fruits for food. Today, man has built giant skyscrapers, uses the most-sophisticated technology for food production and lives in comfortable homes (Thomas, 1979). Everything developed in phases, first there was...
A fractured fluency: Amy hempel's exploration of grief
Thesis - 5 pages - Philosophy
Amy Hempel's story “The Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried” appears to be a bleak depiction of human selfishness and avoidance in the face of death. A woman visits her dying friend in hospital, but instead of staying to offer comfort, she departs abruptly, leaving her friend crying in...
