Essays Tagged: "prescriptions"

The Nursing Home

ta Club example)3.)People of similar ageC.)Health Care1.)Takes stress off of the family2.)Help with prescriptions and medicine3.)In case of emergency...The Nursing Home: A Haven for the ElderlyToday's ... n elderly person who can no longer care for him or herself. The facility helps residents with their prescriptions and medicines. Nursing homes are usually located near hospitals to ensure quick treatm ...

(2 pages) 256 1 3.1 May/1994

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Ritalin

adults are being diagnosed with ADHD. According to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) (Bailey 1995), prescriptions for Ritalin have increased more than 600% in the past five years. Ritalin has a long h ...

(6 pages) 170 0 4.3 Mar/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Ritalin

e simply having trouble in school. The numberssuggest they have good reason to worry. The number of prescriptions forRitalin increased four-fold from 1990 to 1995, making the stimulant one ofthe most ... ldpsychologist. 'Ritalin works and it works fast'(Wonder Drug).How far should doctors go with these prescriptions? Increasingly doctorsare prescribing Ritalin to even pre-schoolers. Researchers at the ...

(6 pages) 126 0 4.8 Nov/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Jesus and the Anorexic Suicidal Supermodels

ropy, to raise America's children in accordancewith our accepted norms and various proscriptions andprescriptions.However, rising teenage pregnancy and juvenile crimeseem to indicate that the American ... ct health for our boys. Although the older membersof our society will say that these are not the newprescriptions, that these are wrong, these detrimentalsocial phenomenon occur in desperately large n ...

(3 pages) 47 2 5.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity

Drug Abuse

t. Along with cocaine, morphine and other opiates were used freely in patent medicines and doctors' prescriptions, and many people became addicted without realizing it. The indiscriminate use of morph ...

(5 pages) 170 2 2.8 Mar/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Drugs and their consequence.

t. Along with cocaine, morphine and other opiates were used freely in patent medicines and doctors' prescriptions, and many people became addicted without realizing it. The indiscriminate use of morph ...

(4 pages) 79 0 3.8 Mar/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Prescription Drug Abuse - 10 page paper that I wrote for a Toxicology class in my Sophomore year. Excellent resource with bibliography for anyone needing a little help getting started! Grade: 300/300

I will focus on the government's effort to control prescription drug abuse through the tracking of prescriptions and the imposition of tougher penalties on those who violate the law.In 1999, an estim ... t that they are generally less healthy and that they are more likely to receive a greater amount of prescriptions, the most stable and definite abuse of any type of drug for the elderly is that of pre ...

(11 pages) 439 1 4.3 Apr/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Scribes" these are from the bible to study by or to use for a essay of some sort in this case it was a short essay but you can use it for anything

Exilic period. The Law was revered as the precise expression of God's will, and by its multifarious prescriptions the daily life of every pious Jew was regulated in all its minute details. Love of the ... itions. In this cause many suffered martyrdom (I Mach., i, 41 sq.), and so devoted were they to the prescriptions of the Law that on one occasion when attacked by the Syrians on the Sabbath they refus ...

(28 pages) 104 1 4.7 Dec/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity

Illustrative Essay With Which Describes Various Emotions Within a Specific Memorable Event In My Life.

e neighborhood pharmacy with my Dad, looking at cards for the upcoming holiday while he filled some prescriptions. "Dad can you buy me this card?" I exclaimed. In my hand I held a Valentines Day pop-u ...

(5 pages) 90 0 4.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies > Writing

Target Corporation - the job interview process

s to working for this company. The benefits include discount on merchandise, 401 k plan, savings on prescriptions, flexible work schedules and many more. Employees of the Target Corporation are indust ...

(3 pages) 241 0 3.9 Apr/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

The pharaceutical industry

ith the physicians office. The objective of the detail rep is to influence the doctor to write more prescriptions for the company's products than their competitors. The pharmaceutical company tracks s ... ts and aggregates data helping to profile each physician ranging from area of expertise, volumes of prescriptions written, and relative loyalty to the pharmaceutical companies and their products. Othe ...

(3 pages) 55 0 0.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Communication & Satisfaction whilst undergoing Barium Enema examination.

tion and compliance. Patient compliance is defined as "the extent to which patients follow clinical prescriptions" (Burgoon, Bark, & Hall, 1991). Patient satisfaction is less easily defined, as it ...

(13 pages) 67 0 3.0 Oct/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies

Benzodiazepines: "Downers".

t as we become more aware of the health hazards and abuse potential of these drugs, regulations for prescriptions have become more restricted.II.Benzodiazepines, or "Downers", consistently rank among ... nk among the most widely abused drugs in most of the world. In the past 10 years, about 600 million prescriptions were processed in United States pharmacies alone.III.Benzodiazepines are Depressants, ...

(2 pages) 21 0 1.0 Nov/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Health Care Costs.

ications. Thirty-one percent of low-income seniors said they dealt with this expense by not filling prescriptions, or by skipping doses of medications to make them last longer. Even patients with seve ...

(4 pages) 180 0 5.0 Jan/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Blauner's hypothesis is explained in regards to the Mexican American immigrants.

oups are incorporated into a society, immigration or colonization. Immigration is voluntary and the prescriptions and exclusions are minimal. Colonization, on the other hand, is involuntary and prescr ...

(2 pages) 30 0 5.0 Jan/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Explain the meaning of 'a Theory of Society'

volving the formulation of theoretical (and empirical) hypothesis, explanations, justifications and prescriptions. In disciplinary terms 'social theories' are often associated with sociological theori ...

(1 pages) 40 0 3.0 Jan/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Network Security

s and nurses can up-date a patient’s chart, while they enter the data, the pharmacy is filling the prescriptions and a note is sent to the nurse that there is a change to the patient’s data. Medica ...

(14 pages) 268 0 5.0 Mar/2007

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

Case Study UTI using Barrows and Pickell model of problem solving cited by Crumbie.

tered with the practice each morning on a walk-in basis. I am a non medical prescriber and generate prescriptions for patients. I work autonomously within my agreed scope of practice and am supported ...

(11 pages) 70 0 0.0 May/2007

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Tragedy And Aristotle

e were Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Aristotle, a philosopher from the 4th century BC, wrote prescriptions for tragedy in his Poetics, which were based on these classic dramas. Aristotle called ... Wilson, is a tragedy because it is easily comparable to Medea which is consistent with Aristotle's prescriptions.First of all, for a drama to be considered a tragedy it must portray events of grave i ...

(8 pages) 24 0 0.0 Apr/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

I.t. doctors database analysis

e). Technology could be used in a Doctor's surgery to computerise the patients' files, to print out prescriptions and certificates for things like immunisations. The patients' file would consist of th ... hy? Because it means easier access, more space in my room, lees time-consuming, and I can print out prescriptions instead of hand-writing them, and I don't have re-record things when I have to edit so ...

(5 pages) 27 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine