A critical analysis concerning one aspect of the nursing care of older people who require palliative care
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
Cancer is a significant health problem in the UK today and according to Redfern and Ross (1999) is a major cause of mortality in the ageing population. Brooker and Nicol (2003) added that cancer is a medical diagnosis that covers the most distinctive diseases. Cancer Research Campaign (1999)...
The importance of communication in nursing practice
Thesis - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
This assignment explores the importance of communication within nursing practice and identifies the different aspects, such as verbal and non-verbal communication and the barriers which may be encountered and overcome. It will examine and explicate the different concepts of communication and the...
A nursing management perspective of a critical incident report
Thesis - 8 pages - Medical studies
The assignment will discuss a critical incident from a nursing management perspective, being an admission assessment experienced during placement. It is not a care study. There will be an overview of the nurse-managers responsibilities during the admission assessment and attention drawn to local...
Chronic kidney disease education
Case study - 7 pages - Educational studies
Chronic kidney disease is a health condition that is characterized by progressive loss in renal function over time. The disease is detected during screening people known to be most likely to be at risk of kidney problems, for example, hypertensive people and diabetics. The difference to acute...
Aspects of psychodynamic pharmacotherapy
Thesis - 7 pages - Psychology
Considerations on the doctor-patient drug addict. As long as there are beings who suffer and until their illnesses are not cured, will I be, to help them, their doctor, their resolve and their servant. Start the practice of the bodhisattva. The ability to develop an effective...
What future does the French public hospital hold?
Essay - 165 pages - Management
Within ten years, the French public hospital system's organization experienced several structural reforms. New managerial concepts coming from the industrial for-profit field spread into the public hospital sector, and outcome-oriented rationales replaced the unconditional answer to the...
Kolcaba's Theory of Comfort-Clinical case of depression
Case study - 8 pages - Educational studies
Since time immemorial, comfort has been consistently aligned to nursing both in- and out-of-the-hospital settings. Historically, nurses were bestowed with the responsibility of providing comfort to not only their patients but also families of patients through the comfort...
The ICU provider
Case study - 8 pages - Biology
Wallace-Barnhill (cited Shoemaker, 1992) makes observations on the situation of medical aspects considering emotional, professional and historical characters involved, especially with regard to death and how it comes to be seen after the appearance of UTIs. Thus, said it reached a point where...
Mini-epidemics of infection by Pseudomonas and its outbreak
Thesis - 6 pages - Medical studies
Although outbreaks of infections with Pseudomonas aeruginosa pseu extra-mural have been described, this germ is not pathogenic in the immune competent host. For against, it is a major agent of nosocomial infections, especially in the ICU, where he is responsible for pneumonia, urinary or skin...
Environmental ICU Interference
Case study - 7 pages - Biology
On the physical conditions, Milk (2000), just mentioned, highlights the fact the ICU be a strange environment where people with known links are broken. The patient is subjected to invasive and painful procedures, subject to rules that can trigger her feelings of helplessness, depression...
A discussion and analysis of wound care
Thesis - 7 pages - Medical studies
The aim of this essay is to explore the underlying theory of wound care. This will be broken down and looked at in terms of comfort, safety, and status and assessment of the nursing model - activities of daily living concerning wound care. Under examination will be definitions of care and...
Music as therapy: The pain and anxiety reducing properties of music
Essay - 5 pages - Medical studies
This literature review examined the effect of music on pain and anxiety in preoperative patients and burn victims as well as older people with osteoarthritis. Studies that explored the effect of music intervention generally allowed subjects to listen to self-selected music during the...
Approaching death: A literature review on end-of-life care
Thesis - 6 pages - Philosophy
Before the 1950's many a lot of people died at home with the family around. They often died quickly of illnesses such as influenza, measles or scarlet fever. Today, as medical technology creates more and more tools and medicines to prolong lives, human beings are faced with the difficult process...
The importance of eating whilst recovering in a hospital
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
The Hungry in Hospital report concerns the importance of food in relation to nutrition, and how nutrition is important when people are ill in terms of the healing process. It explores how food is therefore part of a patient's treatment, the reputation of hospital food, and suggests that...
The importance of communication in nursing practices
Thesis - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Within this essay appropriate references and where possible recent literature will be used to support the different forms of communication used in nursing practice. Potter and Perry (2001), describe communication as being the basic element of human interactions. It allows us to establish, improve...
Measurement of pain
Thesis - 9 pages - Medical studies
The pain often makes the patient unfit physically and emotionally by both cluttering and subvert the behavior of the sore subject. The pain prevents you from thinking coherently and induces the patient to seek treatment or relief.According to a reliable model, the pain consists of...
Reducing multi-medication in the elderly
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
The multi medication is generally defined as taking more than four concomitant medications. However, it can also be defined as the prescribing or use more drugs than those actually needed to care for a patient. The latter definition adds a qualitative dimension, that of the adequacy of the...
Nursing initiatives: Application of mental health project
Thesis - 4 pages - Medical studies
The following paper will describe the home health nursing program previously promoted and approved for implementation concerning mental health outpatient care. It was discussed that patients with mental disorders receive considerable benefits from home care supplemental to their treatment...
Integrating Policy and Partnership in Adult Nursing: A Comprehensive Approach to Person-Centered Care
Case study - 8 pages - Medical care & personal assistance
The discussion critically considered integrating policy, legislation, and multi-professional teams working within adult nursing, as illuminated by the complex case of Reginald Jones. The NHS Long-Term Plan and the Health and Care Act analyzed above speak to an interprofessional, coordinated,...
Artificial intelligence in Healthcare Industry - A.I in Medical Technology : Medical Imaging
Dissertation - 35 pages - Management
Nowadays, we hear about artificial intelligence all around us and more specifically in the automotive, economic, computer and health sectors. The primary goal of artificial intelligence at its inception in the 1950s was to improve and extend human capabilities with machines (Pallanca O., and Read...
The mini mental state examination
Case study - 4 pages - Psychology
The Mini Mental State Examination has been a common tool amongst psychologist and doctors for over 25 years. Marshall F. Folstein, Susan E. Folstein, and Paul R. McHugh developed the test in 1975 (Albanese). Since then doctors and researchers alike have tested its accuracy and usefulness. It has...
The treatment of social phobia using cognitive behavior therapy
Thesis - 5 pages - Psychology
Social-phobia has affected how many people live their lives. Social phobia is a serious mental disease, but it is not difficult to diagnose or treat. Many theories and therapies have been used to treat social phobia. But one of the most affective and commonly used therapies is...
Hospital rankings online in the US: What methodologies?
Thesis - 8 pages - Medical studies
In France, we know the rankings are published regularly by the weekly Le Point (rankings of hospitals, clinics, maternity clinics). To date, the online rankings are virtually nonexistent in France. In the U.S. however, in a context where health is more in tune with market forces and consumerism...
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...
A reflection on one student's preparation to transition from student nurse to graduate nurse
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
This author's personal philosophy of nursing draws from a variety of sources to form a comprehensive whole. Feminist ethics, and the ethics of care which derives from it, encourages health care professionals to look at clients as whole people, who fit into a social framework, and who have...
Crohn's disease and its psychosocial implications
Case study - 24 pages - Psychology
Crohn's Disease is an autoimmune disorder that falls under a category of diseases known as Inflammatory Bowel Disease (sometimes referred to as Inflammatory Bowel Syndrome; Hanauer, S. B., 1996). An autoimmune disease is one in which a person's body determines its own cells and tissues to be...
An analysis of the effect of Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) reconstruction: psychological recovery of an athlete student.
Case study - 10 pages - Educational studies
Involvement in sporting activities requires high level of individual commitments. Sport is therefore, also regarded as a culture of risk (Roderick, 1998). A lot of time and effort is dedicated to practicing and perfection of abilities. When performances are good, athletes are able to define...
Aravind eye care system
Case study - 6 pages - Management
Aravind eye care system was started in 1976 in India by Dr. Govindappa Venkataswamy and the main idea was to get rid of blindness which had become very rampant in India. At the start of the eye care center, the clinic has only 11 beds and by the end of the first year, the clinic had gotten 23...
Impact of Nursing Shortage on the Healthcare Industry
Case study - 20 pages - Educational studies
The shortage of acute care nurses had been one of the primary concerns in the healthcare industry across the world. The issue created a substantial impact on the fitness activities efficiency in hospitals and healthcare centers. Several studies have shown that the nursing graduates entering in...
Medical tourism challenges
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Traveling around the globe to seek cancer treatment has been steadily growing over the years. Medical tourism is mainly influenced by several factors that include: cheaper cancer treatments, advanced medical facilities, better qualified medical personnel and better healthcare services. The...
