Health

Research Topic Essay
Outlines
• Introduction.
• Definitions.
• Discussion.
1. My Interest.
2. Research Question.
• Conclusion
• References
• Topic articles

Introduction
This is a topic essay paper for research practicum course which discuss about documentation. Documentation is an important part of the nursing process; it is a careful and accurate record keeping. It protects the client’s welfare; clients mean individual, families, groups, population who need nursing expertise. By documentation the nurse can communicate with other health professionals. It is needed to meet legal and professional standards.
The nursing documentation should include:
• Description of the assessment and care plan that is given to the client.
• The important information that is expressed by your client and your response to their needs.
• Any management that you provided to the client for the continuity of care.
• The understanding and fulfillment of your duty of care.

The documentation tools are different from one hospital to another, but they are having some basic ones. The common tolls that you might see are:
• Nursing assessment sheet.
• Nursing care plan.

Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) Research Paper

An acquired brain injury (ABI), whether it occurs due to trauma or other reasons, is a permanent and life altering condition. An infinite combination of brain areas may be affected, with results that are mild, moderate, or severe. Individuals may be impacted cognitively, emotionally, physically and socially, and require extensive rehabilitation. They face a loss of autonomy and independence, are at risk of becoming socially isolated, may have difficulty learning new skills, and can pose a safety risk. Their world has been turned upside down, and improving their sense of self and purpose in this world, is an important therapeutic goal. The Therapeutic Recreation Specialist is an important member of the treatment team who works with the individual to improve their cognitive and physical functioning. They support the individual in engaging socially with others, in gaining a sense of mastery that leads to self-worth, and ultimately impact factors that relate to quality of life and integration in the community.

How Different Nervous Systems in the Body Relate to Dancers

The nervous system is very complex and consists of many different parts. In this essay I will look at the 4 main nervous systems, and any subsystems in the body. I will also look at how they relate to dancers.

Central Nervous System
The central nervous system consists of the brain and the spinal cord and is the control centre of the nervous system. It is made up of millions of neurones which communicate by sending electrical messages. The central nervous system mainly controls behaviour by processing the’ inputs’ or events that are happening and sending back appropriate ‘outputs’ . (Anissimov, Michael. 2010) This system is vital to dancers for example, how to react when a partner prepares to lift a dancer, the dancer needs to know how to react and how to move the body in order to complete the movement.
(Purchon, Nigel D. 2006) (Wikipedia.2010) (Anissimov, Michael. 2010) (Sanders, Dawn. 2010)

Peripheral Nervous System

Literature Review - The Efficacy of Acupuncture and Acupressure in Chronic Respiratory Conditions

Acupuncture is an ancient form of Chinese medicine that is now becoming more accepted as a treatment modality for a variety of conditions here in the West. Although there is much disparity between eastern and western concepts by which acupuncture is believed to work, it has been found to useful and efficacious in the treatment of a number of conditions (WHO, 2002). Here in England approximately 7% of the adult population has received acupuncture (2) and the British Medical Acupuncture Society has among its members over 2000 doctors who use acupuncture in general hospital or general practice (3). To date much of the research conducted has concentrated on examining the efficacy of acupuncture on pain control and anti-emesis. A comparatively smaller number of studies have investigated the effect of acupuncture on various respiratory conditions, chiefly those of bronchial asthma and COPD.

Acupuncture and Acupressure

Evidence-Based Practice - Understanding of the Meaning Along With it's Benefits and Ways it May Be Implemented in the Healthcare Settings

Healthcare revolves around a continuous need for new knowledge. Advances in knowledge and understanding are what allow for numerous improvements in the quality of healthcare offered today. In order to obtain the wisdom for these sought after leaps; a scientific method of research must be adopted and implemented. Evidence-based practice is the tool used to provide the highest standard of healthcare possible. Properly using evidence-based practice requires more than a general definition. This paper will present an expanded understanding of what evidence-based practice is, along with its benefits, and the various ways it may be implemented in the healthcare setting. Fully understanding evidence-based practice and its proper avenues of use are critical to advancing healthcare delivery as a whole.

Sleep Deprivation and the Tax it Takes on the Body

A large number of Americans have become the victim to sleep deprivation. Most not really grasping the causes or even realizing that there is a problem. One main source is not getting enough sleep at night, in addition to what goes on during every day life with demanding obligations. Finding out what keeps people from obtaining enough sleep at night will assist in the prevention of sleep deprivation. Everyone is different in many ways on why the morning always seems to come too early. Medications, alcohol, stress throughout the day and long work hours can all take part in this issue.

Marijuana vs Tobacco Research Paper

About 50 percent of 12th graders have admitted to using marijuana. And about 40 percent of them smoke it on a regular basis. The question is why is marijuana illegal and tobacco legal? Marijuana has been known as a “gateway drug”, meaning it leads to use of other harder drugs. This is not true. It truly depends on the person whether they are going to do other drugs. People who smoke marijuana do not have a higher chance of getting addicted or even trying cocaine or heroin than non-users. Many negative facts have been told of marijuana, mostly by the tobacco industry, which are false. Why is the tobacco industry so concerned with marijuana and its negative effects? It is because the tobacco industry is trying to take some of the attention off of their product and point the finger at marijuana. Marijuana is healthier, safer, and has more medical use than tobacco does.

Nurses Professional Duty to Report Concerns from the Workplace Which Put the Safety of People in Your Care or the Public at Risk

`Nurses, have a professional duty to report any concerns from the workplace which put the safety of people in your care or the public at risk’, (Nursing and Midwifery Council, 2010). Report writing plays a big part in maintaining the safety of patients and staff, along with documenting events as they happened. It enables staff members to create short, medium and long term objectives which can be carried out within the workplace to ensure safety if an incident occurs. Also what should be included within a formal report and the reasons behind them will be explored and finally the aspect of whistle blowing will be looked at in more detail.

Should the Federal Government Legalize the Use of Marijuana for Medicinal Purposes?

Herbal Supplements and Their Regulation From the Food and Drug Administration

Performance Enhancing Drugs - The Pros and Cons of Steriods

They were introduced to people as a medicine to help cure hypogonadism. This is a condition which causes insufficient testosterone. These are the famous performance enhancing drugs or as we all are familiar with, steroids. Since early years until this present day, there have been many arguments debating over several issues in our society such as abortion, death penalty, adoption, or even religion. Today, sports and drug use are among the most controversial topics and make for a great headliner. According to David Robinson, opponents argue that people who consume PED’s are “cheaters who gain an unfair advantage” while drug supporters think that “…with pro sport increasing its grasp on society, coupled with the pressures placed on athletes to win at all costs, steroids are here to stay.” So should performance enhancing drugs be allowed in sports?

Introduction:
Schizophrenia is a severely debilitating mental health illness which is relatively common in the UK with a prevalence of 7.2/1000. This essay will discuss aspects of its pathophysiology, therapy, psychosocial and public health issues, in relation to a clinical case of paranoid schizophrenia. The focus is the treatment.

A. Case History
A.i. Psychiatric history

Administrative Ethics Paper - Patient Privacy

Patient privacy is a major concern for all health care professionals. When a patient’s privacy is leaked out the patient is the one that is most affected. Depending on the person or people that know this personal information depends on the over all affects. Do to all of the side effects the government put into action the patient privacy act and HIPPA. This is their solution to ensuring patient privacy is met at all times. Since HIPPA has been put into place in the health care filed, there have been less patient privacy issues.

Medical Care Delivery in Mexico Compared With the United States

This paper will discuss Medical Care Delivery of Mexico and compare it with the United States. This paper will discuss the process of medical care delivery in both countries. The topics that will be covered are: focus of care for the patient, the percentage of people in both countries who do not have access to health care or insurance. We will also cover how long it takes for a patient to get a diagnosis and to be treated. This paper will also cover the overall quality of care for both Mexico and the United States. This paper will address the growing demand for long term care that has become a necessity since a large portion of our populations are getting to the retirement age in both countries.

Describe the process of delivering medical care in Mexico

Effect of Exercise Training Intensity on Abdominal Visceral Fat and Body Composition -Medicine & Science in Sport & Exercise

Introduction

Music Therapy and Nursing - A Non-Pharmacological Approach to Nursing

As I am learning more and more about the profession of nursing I have become interested in non-pharmacological approaches to nursing. There are many times that medication is used to either progress a feeling or suppress it. I have looked to music therapy to provide the same outcome that medication provides without the side effects and wear and tear on the body. I believe that it is important for nurses to look to music to ease such feelings of pain, suffering, and to stimulate the mind and soul.

The Personhood of Dementia Care in Residential Service

“Service for people with dementia is non individual, as individualized service is a high-cost high prestige type of service delivery. In contrast, the services for people with dementia are often institutionalized……. . ” (Cheston & Richard, 1999, p.13)

Introduction
With the rapid ageing population growth (香港耆康老人福利會, 2002；HKSAR Census & Statistics Department, 2000) and increasing number of elderly with dementia, an uplifted demand for institutional long term care is resulted. In response to the public demand for dementia services, the Hong Kong Permanent Secretary for Labour and Welfare claims that 1700 million dollars are allocated as Dementia Supplement in 2009 and 2010 for subsidy of elderly with dementia (成報，26/02/2009). What seems a welcome change unexpectedly gives rise to controversies over the issue about insufficient resources and lowering quality of care for elderly with dementia (香港特別行政區政府新聞處,09/10/2009; 東方日報, 10/10/2009).

Advancing Parental Age and Increased Autism Risk

Assessment of Diabetes Type 2 as a Health Need

Discussion in this essay will be an assessment of Diabetes Type 2 as a health need. This will entail statistics and epidemiology associated with Diabetes type 2, why it is considered a public health issue, the identification of a target of those most at risk of developing diabetes type 2, the culture specific populations at risk, relevant global and national policies and where this health need is identified in Bradshaw’s theory of needs.
This will be followed by an overview of the health promotion approach and SMART objectives of the health promotion group.
Finally an evaluation of the health promotion activity will be discussed. Enlisted in the evaluation will be the evaluation process applied to the health promotion activity, statistics from the public , the role of the health promoter, other environments that would have been more appropriate for the health promotion activity to be conducted.

Assessment of Health Need
The health promotion group were given Diabetes Type 2 as the topic for the health promotion activity. The group gathered relevant epidemiological and demographic statistics regarding to diabetes type 2.

Molecules of Life - Discussing Antibiotic Resistance

Just like Fleming said, “one sometimes finds what one is not looking for”, the existence of antibiotics were found by him in this interesting way. This opens the era for the antibiotics. However, under the glorious effects that antibiotics can give people, in the modern time, so widely used by people all around the world, a severe problem comes to us, the antibiotic resistance.

Antibiotic resistance is a type of drug resistance where a microorganism is able to survive the exposure to an antibiotic. Genes can be transferred between bacteria in a horizontal fashion by conjugation, transduction, or transformation. Thus a gene for antibiotic resistance which had evolved via natural selection may be shared. Evolutionary stress such as exposure to antibiotics then selects for the antibiotic resistant trait. Many antibiotic resistance genes reside on plasmids, facilitating their transfer. If a bacterium carries several resistance genes, it is called multiresistant or, informally, a superbug or super bacterium. ----(1)

The Effects of Restaurant Food on Children

In the 1950’s women predominately were homemakers, staying at home all day to care for the children, prepare meals for their family, and maintain the household while men were primarily responsible for making money in the work field to provide for their family. Today however, it is not uncommon that both parents in the household are working all day to support their families. This means that less and less meals are being prepared in the home and more and more meals are being purchase from a drive through window. Preparing family dinners rather than purchasing food from restaurants has the potential to decrease childhood obesity, help facilitate healthy communication, and teach children healthy eating habits that they will use for the rest of their lives.

Paper on Why I think the Use of DDT Should Be Banned Worldwide

The widespread use of Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) should be banned worldwide because of the chemicals irreversible and damaging effects on the environment.

DDT was a chemical that was first discovered in the late 1800’s. It wasn’t until 1939 that its ability to kill mosquitoes and lice was discovered and the chemical was then used to control the spread of malaria and typhus during World War II. After the war DDT was authorized for use as an agricultural pesticide because of its effectiveness as an insect killer, and is to this day, at least by name one of the most popular insecticides ever used. Unfortunately, the negative effects of this powerful insecticide soon became known and the use of DDT as an insecticide was banned in the United States in 1972. Eventually, in 2001, (panna.org, ND) DDT was banned for agricultural use worldwide by the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Pollutants.

Various Therapy Principles For Working In The Prenatal Care Unit and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Abstract

This paper demonstrates various therapy principles based on clinical experiences when working with high risk pregnant women in Prenatal Care, and premature babies, and their mothers in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). The development of these principles are based on the work of a variety of theorists and clinicians who have comprehensive knowledge studying on the early relationship between high risk pregnant women and their babies from the womb to birth in the NICU.

Keywords: principles, combinations, early relationship, pregnant, NICU

Paper on The Central Nervous System

The central nervous system contains the brain and spinal cord and involves nerve impulses. The central nervous system is connected to all parts of the body from the peripheral nervous system. It sends stimuli to the peripheral nervous system which interprets it. The peripheral nervous system then initiates and responds. (Ophardt, C (2003). elmhurst college. Retrieved October 5, 2007, from Virtual Chembook Web site: http://www.elmhurst.edu/~chm/vchembook/661nervoussys.html).

A previous study by Baerwald, Tryon, and Stanford (2005) examined response discrimination of patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in a computer generated test of auditory and visual attention functioning (IVA). 95 patients out of 131 potential participants met the inclusionary criteria to participate in this study; no history of head injury, no history of schizoaffective disorder, scored “within normal limits” on the Mini-Mental Status Exam, and received a concordant diagnosis from the intake psychiatrists. 44 Patients with bipolar disorder and 51 patients with schizophrenia were contrasted to a “normal” comparison group in two conditions; simple modal responses, and ipsimodal or crossmodal responses. The simple modal condition presented auditory and visual stimuli in a random pattern in order to test the participants’ attention and impulsivity, while the ipsimodal and crossmodal conditions tested the participant’s attention during continuous and independent stimuli (i.e., auditory to auditory, visual to visual, or auditory to visual, visual to auditory.)

Focus on Ethics - Maternal Infant Child Health Care

Abstract

Ethical dilemmas are unavoidable as each person has their own set of values and morals. There are many possible actions and viewpoints to be considered when reaching a decision. For this paper I will work through an ethical dilemma using a decision making model to come up with what I feel is the best decision. I will also discuss what my role is as a nurse in this ethical dilemma.

Focus on Ethics

Introduction

I am a neonatal nurse taking care of a full term medically unstable baby girl. She has numerous health problems that need to be dealt with in a timely matter for the best outcome possible. The issue at hand is that her parents are refusing the treatments needed to help save the baby’s life. The medical team believes it is in this baby’s best interest to treat her. Who should decide on what should be done?
As a guide to work through this ethical problem I will use the Thompson and Thompson Ethical decision-making model (1990).
Nature of the problem

Short Paper on Genetics - Genetic Engineering and Cloning

Genetics is the science of DNA and diseases due to its deterioration . DNA is the molecule that contains the information of the construction of our body . As far as I’m concerned this allowed us to discover the body to the microscopic level and then find the cure of many diseases that affect us closely . The direct human modification of an organism’s genetic material is called genetic engineering that regards the manipulation of genes . Organisms resulting from use of these techniques are called genetically modified organisms . Another extraordinary aspect of the genetic is cloning .
Cloning is the method by which you try to create an identical copy of someone Or something

Discussing Egg Donation - Is it Supporting the Trade of Organs?

Research Paper on the Effect of Botox Injections on Children with Cerebral Palsy

A lot of research has been done in regards to the effect of using Botulinum Toxin Type A, also known as Botox, injections in children with cerebral palsy. During my internship, I have seen several patients that have received these injections and have seen improvements in their mobility, which allows the physical and occupational therapists to get better, more full range of motion out of them during their sessions. I wanted to know why Botox injections make such an improvement and if they work in most populations.

The Food Industry - Who Controls it, Controls What We Eat

The food industry is one of the biggest industries world-wide, and those who control it, control what we eat. We definitely are not aware to everything that goes on behind the scenes because big business executives go to every extent to keep what certain highly “efficient”, highly unnatural, techniques they use under wraps. Why? The answer is unclear, but put the facts together to form your own unique perspective. In the late 1800s and the early 1900s, the food industry was a very frightening scene. The health codes, non-existent by the way, were enough to make a person vomit. Now, we have more regulations about safety of our food, but really, haven’t we created more problems than we started with, and allowed the big food companies to become extremely powerful?

Should it Be Mandatory for Everyone to Donate Organs when they Die?

Organ donation is important for saving life as a result this process should be mandatory, that is definitely to increase the organ supply and the good way to stop organ black market. On another hand, it can be argue that process is unlikely with human right and some culture objection.

Legislation organ donation is increasing the organ supply. Now number of people who need organ has grows up faster than supply obtainable. This is definitely the best way save life and also cut down the long waiting list for organ. Every patient has opportunity for received organ not only rich patients. These are obviously benefits people will get from mandatory organ donation.

Energetic Perspectives on Practice

Introduction:

In this essay; the author would like to discuss Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and the philosophies, beliefs, religions and values of the Chinese culture that have influenced the health care system in China. The author would also like to include a comparison between the Chinese and Western approaches to diagnosis and treatments of illness and disease and how the integration of the five element theory (5E) could contribute to the holistic care of an individual combined with aromatherapy. Also included will be the regulation, training and research requirements of both China and the U.K.

Tradional Chinese Medicine

All of your dimensions of health intertwine in some kind of way. Unhealthy, risky behaviors can affect your life in a big way if you decide to participate in them. Everyone is responsible for their own decisions in life and when someone decides to engage in risky behaviors like, drinking alcohol, having unprotected sex, doing drugs and other risky behaviors, they are putting their life in danger as well as the people around them.

Cerebral Blood Flow and Vascular Physiology

Paper Outline:

Cerebrovascular anatomy
Arterial supply
Venous drainage
Dural venous sinuses
Normal cerebral blood flow and metabolism
Measurement of cerebral blood flow
Global CBF
Regional CBF
Transcranial Doppler sonography
Local CBF
Control of the cerebral circulation
Flow–metabolism coupling
Mediators of flow–metabolism coupling
Temperature effects on flow–metabolism coupling
CO2 vasoreactivity
Mechanism of CO2 vasoreactivity
Conditions that alter CO2 vasoreactivity
Hypoxemia-induced cerebral vasodilation
Effects of viscosity on CBF
Blood pressure or cerebral perfusion pressure (cerebral autoregulation)
Normal flow, pressure, and resistance relationships
Mechanisms of autoregulation
The metabolic mechanism
The myogenic mechanism
The neurogenic mechanism
Abnormal autoregulation
Limits of autoregulation
Autoregulation testing
Conclusion
Appendix
References
Copyright

Cerebrovascular anatomy

Arterial supply

Access to Health Care among Homeless Populations of Cleveland: An Introspective Analysis

Introduction