Healthcare Costs Issues in USA
Case study - 1 pages - Political science
The federal public health agency I have chosen for this project is the United States Department of Health & Human Services. In the health care field, a lot of time is needed to take care of patients effectively, in this crucial field time matters more than anywhere else because the lives...
Counseling Psychology: Case study
Case study - 5 pages - Psychology
Counseling psychology is a career whose specialty involves helping people gain control of their feelings. It is a class of applied psychology that uses research and applied work to give treatment to clients who experience variety of emotional, social and behavioral problems. Among other...
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...
Israeli court decision- Harvesting Dead Girl's Eggs Raises Ethical Issues
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
The move by the Israeli court to grant permission for family members to extract and donate eggs from dead daughter raises a number of ethical issues. The couple initially wanted the extracted eggs to be fertilized with donated sperms, which was declined by the court on the argument that it was...
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Cognitive behavioral therapy is a psychotherapeutic way of addressing maladaptive actions, cognitive contents and processes and dysfunctional emotions through several goal-oriented, precise methodical techniques. Study shows that CBT is an efficient treatment for other panic attacks, but there is...
The Team: pathological phenomena on health professionals
Case study - 7 pages - Biology
During this work, thought to question the focus of treatment that has been given to the patient. That is, sometimes the patient was taken care of by a team whose only concern was his physical body, and at other times, there was the search for a more comprehensive performance, also...
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,...
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...
Calgary-Cambridge Model - The Comprehensive Case Study of Mr. P.
Case study - 4 pages - Medical care & personal assistance
Mr. James Parker, a 62-year-old former accountant who is experiencing continuous fatigue, dyspnea and chest pain, comes to a doctor for a consultation. This case study will evaluate his presentation skills following the Calgary-Cambridge model to integrate a patient-centered care. (...)...
RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) Medical Tags
Thesis - 10 pages - Management
This small business venture attempts to solve a problem that many hospitals have to deal with on a daily basis along with paramedics who serve injured patients. Hospitals spend millions of dollars on patient filing and patient information. However, many times, physicians...
Integration of a Nurse Informaticist to Enhance Healthcare Outcomes
Case study - 4 pages - Medical care & personal assistance
Nursing informatics is the combined use of nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice (Williams, 2019). A nurse informaticist is a nursing professional who specializes in analyzing, designing,...
Concept analysis of similarity
Case study - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language similarity is the (a) “equivalence,” (b) “resemblance” and (c) corresponding “features” or characteristics” (2009). There are various ways of defining similarity the most common term shared is...
Applications and Limitations of Diagnostic Imaging - published: 07/07/2009
Presentation - 58 pages - Medical studies
The traditional evaluation of the patient includes the history and physical examination and a well-planned set of diagnostic tests, often including imaging. Dramatic advances in imaging not only supplement the physical examination, but also now may begin to substitute for part of it....
Arguments for and against active euthanasia
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Euthanasia is often referred to as mercy killing and has been undertaken in the medical profession for years to put patients with long illnesses out of suffering. Active euthanasia on the other hand, means that another person other than the patient intentionally ends a...
How research protocol would impact the medical providers' practice?
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
Research puts it clear that healthcare research aids a patient and a client care through the provision of a unique scientifically based body of intensive knowledge used to make various decisions, practice and promote the professional role. The modern research protocols can be used by the...
Legal risk of Nurses
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
In today's litigious society, it is possible for a nurse to be involved in legal matters of the country she or he works for, either directly or indirectly. By understanding the cases involved, nurses can avoid many of the high risk areas of trouble. Due to the shortage of nursing officers,...
Performance Project in the Nursing profession
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
When dealing in paediatrics, the majority of the health care professionals often face a number of challenges due to their delicate nature. This is because this category of patients is composed of children, infants and adolescents who are quite sensitive to handle and thus deserve high...
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...
Online healthcare system
Tutorials/exercises - 25 pages - Computer science
The project titled ONLINE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM” is designed using Microsoft Visual Studio.NET as the front end and SQL SERVER 2003 as the back end which is developed under Visual Studio .NET 2005. The project contains following modules: The Admin module contains admin login, admin main...
Personal statement for residency application
Case study - 2 pages - Medical studies
It was during orthopedic surgical residency training that I came to deeply respect radiation oncology's pivotal role in medicine. As a resident, I cared for numerous patients with bone pain or impending pathologic fractures from primary bone tumors, metastatic disease, and multiple...
Navigating Cystic Fibrosis: The Integral Role of Pediatric Nurses in Managing Complex Needs
Litterature review - 4 pages - Medical care & personal assistance
Cystic Fibrosis is a dangerous inherited condition that damages children's and young adults' lungs and digestion. The disease is characterized by thick, sticky mucus that complicates respiratory and gastrointestinal issues. As a result, family members suffer chronic clinical problems and...
Optimizing Treatment Strategies for Distal Deep Vein Thrombosis
Litterature review - 3 pages - Medical studies
The use of the PICO(T) (Patient/Population and Intervention, Comparison, Outcome and Time) approach is essential when offering care to patients diagnosed with deep vein thrombosis (DVT), as it forms the cornerstone of the healthcare evidence-based decision-making process. These...
Applications and Limitations of Diagnostic Imaging
Presentation - 60 pages - Medical studies
The traditional evaluation of the patient includes the history and physical examination and a well-planned set of diagnostic tests, often including imaging. Dramatic advances in imaging not only supplement the physical examination, but also now may begin to substitute for part of it....
Scoliosis
Essay - 5 pages - Medical studies
Introduction Over the course of the last several decades notable advances have been made in medical science. Because of these advances, it is now possible for physicians to identify medical conditions and alleviate them before they become a chronic health concern for the patient. Such is...
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...
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...
Cancer immunotherapy :Study of T-Cell antigen receptor signaling functions
Thesis - 7 pages - Medical studies
Cancer immunotherapy attempts to harness the immune system, including T cells, to target and eliminate malignant T cells in the host. However, generating efficient tumor immunity presents a major challenge to the scientist. The immune system is unable to recognize the tumor cells. These cells are...
Lewin's change theory and the problem of addressing nursing shortages using technology
Thesis - 7 pages - Business strategy
Introduction - Nursing shortages are a world-wide problem that negatively impact many areas of the profession's goals, from level of job satisfaction to patient care, with an inverse proportional relationship between higher patient-nurse ratios, noted in much research. (Al-Kandari...
Case study of the "The Garling Report"
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
So as to provide quality care for the patient, giving efficient care is essential. Most important is putting into consideration the factors that affect patient care. A medico-legal expert, Peter Garling found that regardless of the NSW health receiving twenty-seven percent of the...
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...
