Health Essays

The history of the debate for physician-assisted suicide has been long, even tracing back to the Greek and Roman times.1,2 The debate originally was centered around the Hippocratic oath and the condemnation of the practice. With the upsurge of Christianity, many physicians continued to condemn the practice. Within the last …

There are six world views in nursing: organicism, mechanism, change, persistence, totality, and simultaneity. I identify most closely with totality. I believe in not only caring for the physical, but also the emotional and spiritual. I believe ones environment can positively or negatively influence one’s health and adapting to it …

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursing_ethicsThe nature of nursing means that nursing ethics tends to examine the ethics of caring rather than ‘curing’ by exploring the relationship between the nurse and the person in care.[1]Early work to define ethics in nursing focused more on the virtues that would make a good nurse, rather than looking …

My last article focuses on patient dumping. I actually stumbled upon this subject while researching another topic. Although I have been in healthcare for almost 11 years, I did not know patient dumping occurred. Where I work, the patient is stabilized before they are transferred. Apparently, the state of California …

Hospitals like any commercial business interest rely on the principles of best practices in the treatment of its patients. Without a standard of care provided through these practices, hospitals would fail to provide the basic service that they are designed to provide. Similarly, these standards of best practices extend across …

Facts Sheet: Perceived Health Promotion Practice of Nurses in Saudi Arabia The purpose of this report was to investigate the perceived health promotion practice of staff nurses in Saudi Arabia. The report states that due to globalization and modernization, the Saudi lifestyle has adopted some practices that are very unhealthy. …

Colombia – Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare – 04 Dec 2008 Indigenous Manufacturers SWOT Analysis Strengths Tecnoquímicas is a leading domes tic pharmaceutical company in terms of s ales with a large production network of eight manufacturing s ites The company has repres entative agreements with m a n y foreign firms …

Every one in the world gets sick. Whether it be when they’re born or later when they reach there senior age. To help these ill people they need to be treated by a doctor. In some circumstances you might even need a specialist for certain surgeries or even different treatments. …

The male reproductive system and hypospadias. The main focus of this essay is to explore, if any, the physical effects that hypospadias can have on the male reproductive system. Through investigation of websites and articles, the aim is to raise awareness of the defect whilst also describing the aetiology or …

Mechanical ventilation is the use of life-support to perform the work of breathing for patients who are unable to breathe on their own or are critically ill. The First Mechanical Ventilation machine was used in 1938 called the “Iron Lung ” which used negative pressure. Positive Mechanical ventilators began to …