Essays on Health Page 75

Dog Days: “We love him; he’s ruining our lives” states loyal caregiver, Louise Aronson, about her family dog, Byron (Aronson, 17). This author faces one of life’s most difficult choices: life or death? While being a controversial topic, Louise does a good job supporting her positive views of euthanasia. She argues that euthanasia is the…

Phlebotomists are individuals educated to obtain blood samples on live patients. Employment in this occupation is on the rise as phlebotomists are sought after for drawing blood for testing. Vital signs are also an important function of the phlebotomist. As healthcare professionals, they work in medical facilities such as hospitals, physicians’ offices, research institutions, home…

Socialized medicine, found in various countries, is a healthcare service owned by all citizens. It ensures universal accessibility to healthcare regardless of individuals’ financial capacity and plays a vital role in a nation’s economy. Many individuals have concerns about the financial burden of illness or injury. However, socialized medicine provides a solution by offering healthcare…

Why would somebody need to have or maintain cardiovascular fitness? What is it that concerns people so much about their heart and lung fitness? Sportsmen would always want to perform well, some ladies would always want to maintain good body sizes, obese people strive to reduce weight and many people strive to avoid heart diseases….

Introduction One of the most feared illnesses these days is cardiac arrest, or more commonly known as a heart attack. This is due to the fact that people are living in such a stressful world, being overly anxious and overworked at the same time, which makes life a bit more complicated and causes many people…

Amnesia Introduction Amnesia is a collective term used to describe a condition characterized by loss of memory. The part of the brain that controls memory storage and retrieval is compromised by brain damage. This damage to the brain may affect the short-term or the long term memory. Brain damage may be caused by various events….

Injection of Live Cancer Cells into elderly patients at the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital in Brooklyn, without the consent of those patients 1993 – U.S Federal agencies had sponsored radiation experiments since the 1940s on hundreds of people (prisoners/elderly hospital patients) EXAMPLES OF ETHICAL DILEMMAS IN CONDUCTING RESEARCH 1. Research question: How empathic are nurses in…

Control and authority are extremely important features with the text One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest. There are many dominant characters and there is also a fight between dominance and authority within the ward discussed in the text. In the text the responder meets many different characters and learns about the world that they live…

The present nursing shortage is a serious issue which poses a real threat to the future of the Canadian healthcare system especially on patients.  Because of this patient safety is threatened and health care quality is deteriorating.  This is because nurses are greatly responsible for the majority of patient care, as they perform the vital…

In the article, Coffman, Seago, and Spetz (2002) questioned that mandating minimum nurse-to-patient ratios could eventually help to improve outcomes and conditions of both nurses and patients in acute care hospitals in California. They found that mandatory ratios could create opportunity costs that were not easily measured and that might outweigh their benefits. They also…