Essays Tagged: "hospitalization"

anerexia

get pregnant. She may lose weight to the point of life-threatening exhaustion, which often requires hospitalization. The person remains physically active and believes she is much fatter than she actua ...

(2 pages) 82 4 4.1 Mar/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Rape: Is It taken as seriously as it should?

000 women are raped per year (National Woman's). 3% of rape cases have injures requiring over-night hospitalization ("Rape Fact Sheet"). That is 3 % too much. Out of all the victims of rape, 91% were ...

(5 pages) 66 1 1.7 Apr/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality

Osteoporosis

doctors pay more attention to fractures of the hip and spine. A hip fracture almost always requires hospitalization and major surgery. It can hurt a person's ability to walk unassisted and may cause p ...

(3 pages) 77 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

PREVENTION OF VIRAL RESPIRATORY NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONS Jacob Hawkins

tually every child in the first few years of life. One in every one to two hundred infants requires hospitalization, usually for bronchiolitis. And failure to follow fastidious infection control proce ... nty percent of people with an average of thirty six thousand deaths and nearly four times that many hospitalizations.Influenza type A can be found in many different types of animals and, in rare cases ...

(3 pages) 61 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Discuss the control of nosocomail infections

n to the hospital' (Garner et al. 1996 cited by Duffy 2002, p.359). This major hazard entailed with hospitalization therefore, affects one out of nine patients with estimated odds of death being doubl ...

(9 pages) 236 0 4.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Job Analysis of Behavioral Health Case Manager

tructured, therapeutic services designed to provide rehabilitation and intensive support to prevent hospitalization and relapse and to assist in development of community living and pre vocational skil ...

(5 pages) 186 1 4.3 Jun/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Childhood Asthma

ryinfections.Asthma is the number one chronic illness among children and is the mostcommon cause of hospitalization for children under 15 years old.Asthma is a disease of the respiratory system common ... event symptoms from occurring. A severe asthma attack requires a medical evaluation and may require hospitalization, oxygen, and intravenous medications.The following are complications associated gtwi ...

(2 pages) 67 0 4.1 Apr/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

This is a brief description of health insurance saying what it does and why it is important.

n individual's protection against medical costs. It can becatagerized into group heatlth insurance, hospitalization benifit plan, hospital and surgicalplan and accident and or critical illness plan. A ...

(1 pages) 74 1 0.0 May/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

The G.I. Bill of Rights.

22, 1944, provided federal aid to help veterans adjust to civilian life. The Bill helped provide in hospitalization, purchase of homes and businesses, education was also a highly demanded benefit from ...

(1 pages) 26 0 3.0 Sep/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Shouldice Hospital Limited: Case Study.

nd doctors were scarce, especially for this non-emergency surgery that normally took three weeks of hospitalization. Dr. Shouldice resolved to do what he could to alleviate the problem. Contributing h ...

(9 pages) 341 1 3.0 Jan/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Fido in the Hospital: Paper on an Emperical Study

therapies work, however, has never been tested.Purpose of the InvestigationChildren who must endure hospitalization and recurring illness are subjected to not only major amounts of stress, but also a ... hospitalized children because it can compensate for a deficiency in control in other areas of their hospitalization. There has been some research into the therapeutic use of animals but there is a lac ...

(5 pages) 19 0 5.0 Jun/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Asylums by Erving Goffman

reactions to the social statute given. This chapter reflects the image of the whole process of the hospitalization, starting with the moment when the inmate comes into contact with the staff of the i ... much as possible, even if most of it could be only fiction. Institutionalized people explain their hospitalization to others as having a well-founded reason because they want to keep their self respe ...

(9 pages) 58 0 4.6 Jan/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Norway

covers the entire population of Norway and it provides unlimited free medical care, unlimited free hospitalization, liberal cash allowances and many other benefits. This program also makes it possibl ...

(1 pages) 974 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Norway

covers the entire population of Norway and it provides unlimited free medical care, unlimited free hospitalization, liberal cash allowances and many other benefits. This program also makes it possibl ...

(1 pages) 810 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

A Distorted View: How Anorexica View Themselves

bly years before the disorder had occured.There are two types of treatments available for anorexia. Hospitalization and psychological treatment are the two treatments used.There are many sources of he ...

(1 pages) 935 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Patients' Dignity and the Effects of Nursing Care

ness, and place their lives in the hands of healthcare professionals. On top of compromised health, hospitalization often creates feelings of loss of control, helplessness, loss of worth, and loss of ...

(12 pages) 237 0 3.7 Apr/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Genetics, Brain Structure, and Behavior

affecting their relationships. The individual suffering from this illness may require some type of hospitalization to avoid hurting themselves or others. Severe depression, the latter part of the ill ... not be strong enough to cause damage to the occupational or social functioning or need any form of hospitalization. Cyclothymic, the last category is described as an individual having a period of two ...

(6 pages) 60 0 0.0 Apr/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Advanced nursing practices

t to reduce health risks, then, use the two strategies can reduce healthcare cost much lower and re-hospitalization. Moreover, nurses should know the medication management. If nurses have an advanced ...

(8 pages) 137 0 5.0 Feb/2009

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Preventing Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Infection (MRSA)

s and long-term healthcare facilities. The "risk factors associated with HA-MRSA include: prolonged hospitalization or resident of a nursing home, patients undergoing dialysis, indwelling catheters, I ...

(5 pages) 51 0 5.0 Jun/2009

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

RES 341 Final Exam with Instructor Notes

following to answer 10-12The Jolly Blue Giant Health Insurance Company guideline says that average hospitalization for a triple hernia operation should not exceed 3 days. A diligent auditor studied r ...

(7 pages) 265 0 1.0 Sep/2009

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers