End-of-Life Decision Making for Nursing Home Residents with Dementia
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Forbes, Bern-Klug and Gessert (2000), in their article End-of-Life Decision Making for Nursing Home Residents with Dementia, relate the problem of family decision making and the focus on nursing home care for individuals with dementia. This 5 page paper provides an overview of the issue presented and relates it to the current literature. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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End-of-Life Issues
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This 3 page paper uses a web site to help explore how Native Americans may choose to face end-of-life issues. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Endorphins
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This 3 page paper defines endorphins, and briefly discusses a study done to find out the effects of endorphin production on migraine headache. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Enhancing Quality in Home Health Care
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A 6 page paper discussing quality assessment and performance improvement in the home health care setting. The paper discusses the need for enhanced quality in home health care and the usefulness of a corporate compliance plan in ensuring that all members of the organization are uniform in their approaches to care and recordkeeping. It summarizes an interview with a practitioner and a visit to a home health care provider, and summarizes all findings in the conclusion: The greater direct communication of telemedicine streamlines the recordkeeping process while improving its quality, and it allows the caregiver to spend more time in direct contact with the patient, rather than in completing forms. The caregiver is able to give the patient more direct attention, thereby enhancing the customer's satisfaction with the care he receives. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: KShomeHlthQual.wps

Enhancing Total Quality Management at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Guam
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A 4 page paper providing a short overview of the development of TQM and its applicability in the hospital setting. Obvious points at which process improvements are beneficial are those related to patient outcome of course, and those responding to medical emergencies must have the freedom to make the choices necessary in situations often highly constrained by time limitations. Patients' family members also are customers, and improving their experiences increase customer satisfaction and perceived quality of care; decreasing waiting time and improving communication constitute apt beginning points for improving quality in the Emergency Room. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Entamoeba histolytica: Description, History, and Etiology of an Organism Associated with Infectious Diarrhea and Dysentery
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A 5 page overview of this single-celled eukaryote, a common parasite among all classes of vertebrates, several invertebrates, and quite possibly a variety of unicellular organisms. This paper provides a morphological description of the organism, an overview of its life history, and a review of its impacts to humans and the treatment methodologies which are employed. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Environmental Health Care
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An 11 page paper. It has long been known there is a link between environmental conditions and health. In fact, environmental conditions were first linked to disease in the late 1700s. Although this correlation is known, health care professionals receive very little training about it. The writer reports a survey of pediatricians, for example, 80 percent of whom do not feel comfortable even taking an environmental health history. Other research is also reported. The structure of the American health system is discussed as is the sociopolitical relationship between and among government, politics and health care. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Environmental Pollution/Herbal Medicine
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A 3 page research paper that examines herbal and natural food products that can offset the effects of environmental pollution and radiation. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Enzymatic Polymorphism: Impacts to Drug Absorption and Toxicity
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An 8 page discussion of enzymatic polymorphism as it relates to drug absorption and toxicity. The author emphasizes the prevalence of polymorphism and the impact it can have on patient treatment. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: PPmedEnz.rtf

EPA'S Response To Anthrax Attack
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A 27 page paper. Anthrax-laced letters were discovered only weeks after the terrorist attacks of 9/11. An attack involving anthrax spores being transmitted through the mail had never occurred to anyone but here it was. The U.S. Congress asked the Environmental Protection Agency to take control of the testing and decontamination of infected buildings. The EPA was basically operating in the dark; there were no protocols for such a situation. This paper discusses the extensiveness of the situation, the EPA's role in the projects, the criticism levied against the EPA and the final determination that this agency was successful in the cleanup. The writer also comments on the containment of anthrax to a very small number of infected persons. Experts report the numbers could have been much higher if the antibiotics had not been prescribed as a precautionary measure against the disease. The writer explains what anthrax is, where it is usually found, the elimination of the disease in the U.S., which chemicals were used and the processes used to decontaminate the many buildings and areas infected. Data are included. Bibliography lists 30 sources.
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Ephedra and Heat Stroke: A Research Proposal
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This 16 page paper provides an overview of a research proposal on the use of ephedra and the issue of heat stroke. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Epidemics and Civilization
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This 3 page paper examines the cause and effects of epidemics. The Plague as well as AIDS are diseases discussed. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Epidemiology & STDs
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An 8 page research paper that defines and discusses the impact and relationship of epidemiology to healthcare interventions and policies pertaining to sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). This overview of epidemiology looks specifically at the uses and applications of epidemiological analyses and data as it pertains to the management STDs. This information addresses how hospitals and community-based healthcare address the decision-making processes for allocation of limited healthcare resources and also the role and use of epidemiological data as this information relates to the evolution, definition and refinement of disease management programs that address STDs. Bibliography lists 16 sources.
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Epidemiology And Infectious Disease Prevention: West Nile Virus
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3 pages in length. The current state of America's economy has triggered an expansive and detrimental backlash in so many industries that it is overwhelming to contemplate the extent to which this economic downturn has trickled into areas many people would never consider. The frequency with which delinquent homeowners are abandoning their houses has become a tremendous public health issue due to swimming pools left unattended and untreated whereby the water festers and attracts virus-carrying mosquitoes. According to Goodman et al (2009), the prevalence of this particular hazard has spiked the number of West Nile virus cases. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Epidemiology Journal Entries
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A 24 page paper that offers journal entries that react to a book on epidemiology. No bibliography is offered.
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Epidemiology of Obesity
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An 8 page research paper that offers an extensive literature review of epidemiological studies regarding the epidemic of obesity. Bibliography lists 16 sources.
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Epidemiology Questions
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This 6 page paper answers some questions set by the student for an epidemiology class. The questions look at the difference between incidence and prevalence; calculates mortality and incidence rates and ratios and considers some potential faults with study methodologies. The bibliography cites 2 sources.
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Epilepsy
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5 pages in length. The telltale signs are unmistakable: The eyes grow wide and bulging, the limbs tense and turn rigid, and soon after, the body begins a series of uncontrollable muscular convulsions for anywhere from a few seconds to several minutes. Epileptic seizures and their causes are a frustrating condition in the field of human medicine. In non-technical terms, epilepsy is a short circuit in the brain. In technical terms, it is a series of misfires of the neurosynaptic function that ultimately sends confused signals to the body, thus creating the uncontrolled fits. Bibliography lists 7 sources. Two graphs included.
Filename: TLCeplsy.rtf

Epilepsy (An Overview)
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This 5 page paper provides an overview of this dangerous condition. Attention is paid to etiology, as well as symptoms and descriptions of the various types of seizures that epileptics may encounter. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Epilepsy: Theories, Cause, Diagnosis, Treatment And Social Concerns
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5 pages in length. To witness someone in the midst of an epileptic seizure is to understand how truly helpless one can be to help another in need. The extent to which epilepsy places tremendous vulnerability upon the victim and bystanders alike is both grand and far-reaching; that guiding a person through a seizure is as nonspecific as the reason why the disorder exists in the first place speaks to many questions that remain unanswered about this perplexing disorder. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Equality in Health Care is Essential
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This 9 page paper examines the fact that all people, regardless of socio-economic status have an equal right to quality health care. Bibliography lists seven sources.
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Error In Judgment: Clinician Bias
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4 pages in length. The aura of professionalism includes a number of characteristics that one can reasonably expect to exist without question; those who adopt the power and influence inherent to psychiatry are particularly responsible for eschewing the temptation toward bias when it comes to making errors in judgment while interviewing an individual who has just been brought into a psychiatric crisis intervention center. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Escherichia Coli - O157:H7
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A 9 page paper discussing causes, incidence, treatment and prevention of infection caused by E. coli O157:H7. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Escherischia coli
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A 5 page paper discussing the biology and effects of E. coli. Bibliography lists three sources.
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Escitalopram
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This is a 10 page paper which discusses all the aspects of the antidepressant drug escitalopram. The bibliography has 6 sources.
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Essays / Medicine, Medical Science, & Medical Ethics
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29 pages worth of in-depth essay responses to questions concerning medical ethics, AIDS, euthanasia, the Hippocratic Oath, and more. An EXCELLENT resource for pre-med and early med students. No Bibliography.
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Establishing an Outpatient Pain Management Clinic
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A 15 page paper discussing the establishment of a freestanding pain management clinic attached to a nursing home but also available for adult day care. The paper discusses pain management philosophies; alternative methods of managing pain; past problems of abuse of pain-killing drugs in the elderly; and the business issues of establishing and maintaining the clinic. Bibliography lists 14 sources.
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Establishing Long-Term Strategy at Shands Healthcare
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A 9 page paper providing a SWOT analysis and financial analysis for a Florida hospital striving to establish a long-term strategy for improvement in processes and patient satisfaction. The paper provides financial information and a few financial ratios to show that current management has not managed financial resources to gain maximum benefit from them. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Ethic Principles Of Persistent Vegetative State
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3 pages in length. The writer briefly discusses the ethical nature of allowing someone to languish in a persistent vegetative state (PVS). Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Ethical and Moral Issues in Alternative Reproductive Biotechnologies
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This 7 page report discusses alternative reproductive biotechnologies such as in vitro fertilization, cloning, and surrogate motherhood. The writer presents the concept of utilitarianism as best-serving as an ethical and moral framework by which such biotechnologies may be considered and validated. The moral and ethical considerations of corporations are also considered within such a context. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Ethical and Practical Implications of the Medical Approach to Abnormal Behavior
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This 3 page paper discusses the ethical limits, as well as the practicality involved in treating abnormal behavior. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Ethical Approach to Practicing on the Newly Dead
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A 3 page paper written from the perspective of weighing options in practicing on the newly dead (intubation, subclavian line insertion, other procedures). The ethics committee will be meeting to determine policy after several instances of premature activity; the purpose here is to suggest an ethical policy. The paper uses the philosophies of Kant and Mill to conclude that the policy should take the form of allowing practice on the newly dead, but only after receiving permission from the nurse assigned to the case at the time of death. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Ethical Complications in Organ Donations
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An 11 page paper which examines why some people may not wish to be organ donors because of ethical reasons. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Ethical Considerations in a Medical Research Project
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This 5 page paper considers the appropriate ethical considerations for a medical research project concerning the use of specialised medical care workers and the impact on both patients and their families. The paper looks at the broad ethics as well as the more specific ethics relevant to this case. The bibliography cites 7 sources.
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Ethical Considerations in Embryonic Stem Cell Research
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A 5 page position paper arguing against embryonic stem cell research and in favor of using adult stem cells for the same purpose. Philosophers can argue the moral and ethical position of harvesting embryonic cells forever, “proving” either positive or negative positions at will without arriving at any solution. If patients are indeed suffering needlessly because of the lack of stem cell research, it is the research community that is responsible. Adult stem cells are readily available, behave in the same manner and carry no ethical or moral consequences at all. Rather than argue against government policy, researchers need to be turning their attention to other possibilities, thereby following the path of research development that has been in use for more than a century and thusfar has produced every advance that we now enjoy. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Ethical Considerations in HLA Tissue Typing
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A 9 page consideration of this controversial procedure. This paper contends that the creation of embryos for the purpose of procuring tissues is not an ethically acceptable alternative. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Ethical Dilemma Concerning Do Not Resuscitate Orders
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7 pages in length. A terminally ill patient scheduled to have palliative surgery is refused by her doctor unless she reverses the Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order she put in place to address her incurable disease. The reason why her physician required his patient to change her DNR to full code while in the operating room is unclear; perhaps he did not want to have the responsibility of her potential death looming over his head without a way in which to medically address the situation. Maybe he was not fully aware of the extent to which her terminal illness necessitated such a drastic order as the DNR. Regardless of his inability or downright refusal to accept the patient's wishes, he was committing a rather serious breach of ethics where his medical practitioner's behavior is concerned. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: TLC_DNR.rtf

Ethical Issue of Euthanasia/Assisted Suicide in Nursing
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A 4 page paper which provides a detailed explanation of the issue, discusses why this topic in particular was chosen, relates how the issue affects the nursing profession and considers the issue’s societal/community impact. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Ethical Issues in Health Care
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A 20 page research paper that examines 3 issues in health care: 1) the balance between the government's need to protect public health versus individual rights in regards to the resurgence of TB; 2) a case study, in which a dying man's wife requests termination of life-sustaining intervention and pain control; and 3) examination of court cases in which the state's need are weighed against individual rights. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
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Ethical Issues in Managed Care Research
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This 7 page paper provides an overview of the reasons behind the rise of the HMO and the dilemmas surrounding alternatives. The problem that the paper addresses is that most research is centered on those of white European heritage, a problem perpetuated by researchers’ use of large databases that in themselves exclude many from other population groups. Researchers pursue knowledge with admirable intentions, and they devote much effort to ensuring that they arrive at a research design free of bias of several types. Many fail to understand that they begin with bias, however, and that their entire effort is undertaken under the banner of researcher bias that translates to biased results. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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