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Abdominal Pain Older Adults
1,519 wordsWhat is Crohns Disease? Crohns disease is a chronic inflammatory disease of the intestines. It primarily causes ulcerations in the small and large intestines, but can effect the digestive system anywhere between the mouth and the anus. It is named after the physician who examined the disease in a landmark paper written in 1932. It is also called Morbus Crohns, Granulomatous enteritis, Regional enteritis, or Terminal ileitis. The disease is found in equal frequency in men and women, and usually e...
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Los Angeles Systems Theory
1,859 wordsThe Roy Adaptation Model for Nursing had it's beginning with Sister Callista Roy entered the masters program in pediatric nursing at the University of California in Los Angeles in 1964. Dorothy E. Johnson, Roy's advisor and seminar faculty, was speaking at the time on the need to define the goal of nursing as a way of focusing the development of knowledge for practice. During Roy's first seminar in pediatric nursing, she proposed that the goal of nursing was promoting patient adaptation. Johnson...
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Terminally Ill Patients Care Facilities
629 wordsToday there are five to ten thousand comatose patients in long term care facilities (Wheeler A 1). There are countless elderly people in care facilities that have repeatedly expressed a desire to die. There are countless terminally ill patients that have also begged for death. Should these people be allowed to die, or should they be forced to keep on living? This question has plagued ethicist's and physicians throughout the years. In the Netherlands, courts have begun to permit the administratio...
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Family Centered Care Principles
898 wordsFamily-Centered Care Principles Families Together of NY State, a family-centered care program of the Mental Health Association of Erie County, Inc, characterizes this particular method as a constellation of formal and informal services and tangible goods that are defined and determined by families (complete article can be accessed from the web < web childfamilysupport. php>), the patient and the health care providers. The prime objective is to unite and form partnerships among these stakeholders...
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Life After Death Sense Of This Word
1,975 wordsLoss of Significant Person (1) The death of a loved one often constitutes a shocking experience, on the part of just about anyone. This is because people have a hard time, while rationalizing the fact that the death of individual means the death of his or her individuality. Only the people entitled with the sense of intellectual honesty are capable of perceiving death as being absolutely natural in its essence, which in its turn, allows them to cope with the loss of a family member with apparent...
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Vitro Fertilization Genetically Identical
1,266 wordsCloning, Cloning Clones Clones Cloning, the process of creating a copy of a plant or animal that is genetically identical to the original through asexual means, has sparked some interesting moral and ethical debate. For years, cloning has been used to produce a greater number of a specific type of plant, such as the Macintosh apple trees, which have all been derived from single mutated plant. Now, however, upon the discovery of a method to clone animals, even humans, people are beginning to beco...
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