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Analysis of RUA’s Article: Hypertension

Introduction of disease High blood pressure, also known as hypertension, is a condition characterized by the high long-term force of the blood against the artery walls that negatively affect the heart’s function. The blood pressure depends on the two main conditions: the amount of blood in heart pumps and blood...

Pros and Cons of Mandatory Continuing Nursing Education

Continuing Nursing Education Continuing Nursing education is defined as “systematic professional learning experiences designed to augment the knowledge, skills, and attributes of nurses and therefore enrich the nurses’ contributions to quality health care and their pursuit of professional career goals” (American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation, 2012). Mandatory continuing...

The Role of the Federal Government in Public Health

Federal governments play an important role in public health by protecting and promoting safety and people’s opportunities. In regards to the population’s health status, healthcare facilities should follow certain standards and policies, learn laws and regulations, and offer services at the required levels. Governments’ interventions touch upon different sectors, including...

HIV Treatment and Family Support

Introduction Social support and familial sustenance are critical in terms of fighting the deadliest and most challenging diseases in the world. Social connectivity enables a person to feel a certain level of happiness and confidence. Challenged individuals experience a significant level of anxiety and stress. However, they also need their...

The Value of Secondary Data in Healthcare

Introduction The use of secondary data is acceptable in many spheres of research. Secondary data are the sources of information “that has already been collected by someone else” and can be accessed by a researcher (Clark, 2013, p. 57). Johnson (2014) claims that secondary data can be a good alternative...

Breast Health Education Article by Yi & Park

A chart showing how the researchers addressed the five areas of a research report. How evidence of the five areas in the research report supports the conclusion The conclusion shows that breast health survivors had significant roles in “motivating young women to adopt behaviors that helped in preventing breast cancer...

Researching Advanced Practice Nursing

Introduction Advanced practice nursing is rapidly gaining support from health care providers because the use of different advanced practice roles and competencies improves healthcare quality and lowers health care costs. Comparison and contrast of advanced practice nursing roles can help to examine the specialty of primary care family nurse practitioners...

The Discussion of Heart Diseases in Women

Introduction Heart diseases may not have received as much attention as they require. This may be the reason why many people are still not aware of the risk factors, symptoms, and preventive measures. This lack of knowledge explains why there is still a big number of people dying of heart-related...

Nursing Morals, Values, and Ethics

Introduction Passion The need to ensure human beings live comfortable lives and access quality health care services motivate me to seek to know what should be done to ensure this is possible. I have a passion for ensuring that every person enjoys life despite the inevitable challenges that modern societies...

Patient Education Plan For Congestive Heart Failure

Abstract This paper provides a patient education plan for a hypothetical African American with congestive heart failure (CHF). The education plan includes information on diagnosis and pathophysiology of congestive heart failure, medications, and treatment of the disease, home care considerations, as well as health and wellness. Overall, the patient education...

Transformational Leadership in Nursing

Introduction Leadership is important in all organizations that utilize people to attain their goals, missions, aims, and objectives. It involves influencing other people to facilitate the accomplishment of a given goal. Leaders arrange, manage, direct, and guide other people towards the attainment of common mutual objectives and goals. Leadership occurs...

Financial Management and Budgeting in Hospitals

Introduction Current nursing training schools have embraced basic accounting classes in their coursework. This is to ensure that their end product becomes better nurse managers either immediately after college or at later stages in their nursing career. Managing a hospital takes the same approach as any other business. It requires...

Long-Term Care Services in Southern Mississippi

The Determinant of Market price and Quantity in Long-Term-Care Services In Southern Mississippi The demand for long-term care services in the southern Mississippi has been observed to rise sequentially following the current trend of population increase, which in a way threatens the survival of the less disadvantaged in terms of...

Lung Cancer in the People Life

Introduction Lung cancer is an illness of unregulated cell growth of the lung. This cell growth within the lung tissues may result to metastasis. Lung cancer is accountable for approximately 1.5 million deaths globally every year and it is the most cancer that affects the highest number of men and...

Fat-Soluble and Water-Soluble Vitamins

Introduction The health benefits of vitamin consumption are a controversial issue and should be considered with caution. Indeed, unreasonable use of these substances in various forms might have severe consequences for one’s health due to disregard for their side effects leading to the emergence of health issues (Cerrato 69). These...

Adolescent Substance Abuse in Single Parent Families: The Family Therapy

Background The prevalence of substance abuse cases and increasing aberrant behavior patterns among adolescents raise significant concerns to parents and community health workers due to their implications on the teens’ social development. Drug addictions among adolescents increase long-term physiological and mental health risks, low educational attainment, poor financial management, run-ins...

The Role of Humour within Counselling and Psychotherapy

The role of humour in counselling and therapy have become an area of intense intense interest for researchers in the field. Experts increasingly recognize its positive role in therapy, but the application is to be executed with precision. The present thesis reviews the literary insight into the use of humour...

Exclusive Breastfeeding Among Infants

Feeding is one paramount activity that not only allows a person to grow and live one more day but also protects the health of the one being fed in many ways. Children are one specific group of human beings whose nutritional needs continue from the womb to the real world...

The Role and Concept of Cognitive Psychology

Cognitive Psychology Defined The scope of cognitive psychology is very broad with many psychologists trying to explain it in their own perspectives and carry out more research on the same. There are many definitions of cognitive psychology which developed to counter the beliefs of behavioral scientists who attributed behavior to...

Regulation for Nursing Practice

Board of Directors There are various differences between a professional nurse association and board of nursing. While the association advocates for nurses, the board regulates nursing practices. The board develop regulations and uniform rules, oversee the licensure, and enforces law (Neff et al., 2018). It also provides standards for supporting...

Teaching English Language Learners

Getting to study your student is a prime issue in teaching practices, once you identify and understand each student in a more personal way; it helps you in knowing and understanding their cultures which subsequently helps in introducing the most appropriate teaching methods. In this class the arrangement has been...

The Canada-United States Border

Definition The Canada-United States border plays a significant role in determining economic growth and security status of the two countries. After realizing the importance of the border in 1999, the two countries adopted a binational approach in management of the border. According to Friedman1, binational approach of managing the border...

Compare and Contrast: Traditional and Distance Learning

Did you know that online learning has a history of over two decades and that the Coronavirus pandemic only accelerated its pace? In today’s active comparison of online and traditional learning, some believe that distance learning is innovative and highly productive, while others favor traditional teaching, regarding traditional methods as...

Content Analysis Method in Global Affairs

Introduction Studies on global affairs focus on a wide area of political relations between countries, cultures, and administrations (Coppieters, 2015). The study of these international relations requires a methodical technique to find essential methods and forces of change. Analysis in international relations employs various methods, including the use of rational...

Developing Literacy Abilities of Reading and Writing

Teaching High-Frequency Words Words are an important aspect of learning in view of the fact that they allow students to create meaning from print. It is estimated that there are approximately a million words in the English language and studies indicate that proficient readers are capable of recognizing about 50000...

Governmental Entities and Employees’ Productivity

Introduction organizational change has been a popular topic of discussion in management research for several years. This is because any organizational change is difficult for both the management and employees, and can lead to drastic consequences if not planned and implemented correctly. The implementation of organizational change requires consistent efforts...

Autism Spectrum Disorder

Introduction Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental and neurocognitive disorder that implies impairment symptoms in social interaction and communication and restricted, repetitive patterns of behaviors, interests, and activities. The reasons for this disorder were earlier considered to be a combination of poor parenting and biological factors, but later it...

The Symptoms and Treatment of Cervical Cancer

Abstract This paper looks into various aspects of cervical cancer. It looks into how cervical cancer is diagnosed and the symptoms that are used to tell when an individual has cervical cancer. It also seeks to establish the available treatment for the disease, prevention, and the use of P medication....

Long-Term Care in USA

Abstract Long-term care is a very important issue that requires serious policy attention in the United States, even though this has not been the case. It matters in the lives of millions of Americans and has direct impact on spending by public programs. Notably, LTC faces a host of challenges...

Marketing Plan for Hospital Has Low Demand

Executive Summary The marketing plan details the various actions that Al-Salit will take into account in the process of introducing a new line of service. Specifically, the firm intends to establish a pediatric wing in order to improve the effectiveness with which it serves its customers. The new wing aims...

Iodine Regulation in the Thyroid

Introduction The human body is a complex structure that runs on various processes, which are similar to machines. The different body parts play significant roles in the normal operation of the entire being. In order to ensure that each part runs efficiently and effectively, special care is necessary. Such care...

Theoretical Perspectives for Nursing

The four key concepts that form the foundation for the nursing profession are person, environment, health and nursing. These concepts examine the primary doctrines of nursing practice. They also form the ground through which individuals should be examined and treated within the nursing profession. This paper looks at the application...

The Venezuelan Healthcare System Critical Assessment

Introduction Comprehensive introductory plans and the availability of subsidized or free healthcare given by the Venezuelan government in the 1980s and 1990s made the country’s health care system among the most developed in the region. By 2000, a large population of people both in towns and rural areas could access...

Right to Die, DNR

The right to die is an entitlement to end one’s life (Humphry, 2003). It holds that every person has a right to die with dignity. Possession of this right gives an individual the ability to choose when to die and by whom. It is sometimes denoted as do not resuscitate....

Job Description: Nuclear Medicine Technologist

Job description Diagnostic imaging commonly uses X-Ray to diagnose diseases. In nuclear medicine, diagnosis is made using radionuclides. Radionuclides are unstable atoms that spontaneously emit radiation (Nuclear Medicine Technologists, 2012). They are used to develop radiopharmaceuticals. The work of nuclear medicine technologists is to give patients radiopharmaceuticals, and then keep...

Alzheimer Disease and Its Effects

Introduction Alzheimer’s disease is a permanent condition that mainly affects the elderly. Besides it being a substantial burden to the healthcare system, it is also a challenge to the patients themselves, as well as caregivers (Salawu, Umar & Olokoba, 2011). As such, Alzheimer’s has become a significant public health issue...

The Expected Code of Conduct in Long-Term-Care Facility

Introduction Healthcare is a medical term which refers to all activities and services involving human health, such as the diagnosis, treatment, as well as prevention of illness, disease, injury, and other mental and physical impairments in humans. Health care is delivered or administered by practitioners in various medical professions such...

The Contribution of Florence Nightingale in Nursing

Introduction Like many other professions in the world today, nursing has undergone tremendous transformations throughout history. It is evident that the outlook of nursing in the 21st century as an admirable career differs largely from what was known a century ago. This change has been brought about by visionary and...