Academic papers on Medicine, Medical Issues, & Pharmacy

Case Study -- The Hamot Medical Center
Case Study -- The Hamot Medical Center: This 6-page essay details a comprehensive case study of this member of the Hamot Health Foundation, and reviews such issues as its inception, organizational/ health care innovations, the subsequent results...
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New York's Health Care Proxy
A 5 page paper discussing New York's provision for ensuring that medically incompetent individuals' wishes are followed in issues of health care when they are unable to communicate those wishes themselves. The law was enacted in 1991, in direct...
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Case Study -- The Hamot Medical Center
This 6-page essay details a comprehensive case study of this member of the Hamot Health Foundation, and reviews such things as conflict management, the role of management in conflict negotiation, and mediation in the industry of health care. ...
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Bargaining Guidelines/Nursing Documentation
An 8 page research paper that applies the 'whole image' approach to negotiating conflict to the health care industry. Today, health care in this country faces a number of difficulties that necessitates health professionals becoming involved in...
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Boon to Home Nursing/PDAs
A 9 page research paper that examines how PDAs (personal digital assistants) are being utilized as support for home nursing. The writer argues that home nurses need support and that PDAs constitute an efficient and economical way of obtaining it....
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Diabetes Model Treatment Program
A 7 page research paper that investigates the components that a model treatment program for diabetes (hypothetically located at a large, metropolitan hospital) should include. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Prescription Drug Regulation in Australia
A 5 page paper discussing Australia's efforts to both increase and decrease government involvement in control of the pharmaceutical industry. The nation also faces the same kinds of public health issues common to all developed nations. The...
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Nightingale & Henderson/2 definitions of nursing
A 7 page research paper that examines how Florence Nightingale (the nineteenth century founder of modern nursing) defined nursing as a discipline and how it was defined by twentieth century nursing theorist Virginia Henderson. Bibliography lists 4...
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Nursing/The Importance of Vital Signs
A 4 page research paper (plus half-page abstract) that argues that the initial assessment of an emergency situation, with particular emphasis on the significance of vital signs, is instrumental in obtaining a positive patient outcome. To...
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Nursing Turnover
A 5 page research paper that offers a literature review on why nursing turnover rates are so high throughout the health care industry, and what solutions are being proposed to correct this situation. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Concept Analysis
5 pages. This research paper explores 'concept analysis' and how it can be applied to healing. Concept analysis is treatment that is based on the actual concept of the perceived illness. For example, if one is suffering from stress, the actual...
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Two Nursing Definitions of Health
A 5 page research paper that investigates and discusses two different nursing theories, how they define health, and how this definition of health impacts nursing practice. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Nursing Research: Pressure Ulcer Risk
A 6 page paper discussing the incidence and prevalence of "bed sores," or pressure ulcers, and the benefits of determining who is most at risk for developing this costly and potentially dangerous condition. When risk is unknown, there is no...
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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
6 pages. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) is a bill that was intended to allow individuals to maintain their health insurance coverage. There is some concern about the bill's current legislation...
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Congressional Debate on Issue of Embryonic Stem Cell Research
A 9.5 page paper which the pro and con arguments, considers the strategies of each side, discusses the leaders who are managing the bill on both sides, and how they have been persuaded to support or oppose legislation. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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