Nursing and Healthcare Essays

Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy: Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Jun 2020
Introduction: Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD) is a neuro-inflammatory, chronic condition.  RSD, also known as Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), is characteriz...

Application of the Biopsychosocial Model to Healthcare
Example essay. Last modified: 18th Jun 2020
Introduction: Healthcare providers have been tasked with an important responsibility of providing high quality of care to the patients that we serve. What does this responsibility call for? A correct diagnosis? App...

Compare and Contrast: LVNs and RNs
Example essay. Last modified: 18th Jun 2020
Introduction: The nursing standards of practice and nursing scope of practice are rules and regulations for the given state, that promote competent nursing actions are being performed during clinical practice. Alth...

Reducing Nursing Medical Errors
Example essay. Last modified: 18th Jun 2020
Introduction: Reducing Nursing Medical Errors  Medical errors are currently the third leading cause of death in the United States claiming the lives of 250,000 people annually.  When one looks at the Centers for ...

Implementing Doctoral Nursing in Nurse Anesthesia
Example essay. Last modified: 18th Jun 2020
Introduction: Full implementation of the Doctoral Nursing Practice (DNP) by 2025 is important to best prepare advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) for the changing demands of the current healthcare system (A...

Disease Prevention to Health Promotion
Example essay. Last modified: 18th Jun 2020
Introduction: Ottawa Charter and Jakarta Declaration Disease prevention focuses on particular efforts intended at decreasing the growth and severity of chronic diseases and other illnesses. As an impo...

Issue of Rising Suicide Rates in the US
Example essay. Last modified: 18th Jun 2020
Introduction: Suicide is a major public health concern in the United States (US). In fact, the US may be facing a suicide crisis. Research has shown suicides in the US are at the highest they have been in the last ...

Early Intervention in Youth Suicide Prevention and Community Engagement
Example essay. Last modified: 18th Jun 2020
Introduction: EARLY INTERVENTION IN YOUTH SUICIDE PREVENTION AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Suicide has a devastating and far-reaching impact on families, friends and communities. The stigma, poor surveillance and the fa...

Health Disparities in the United States
Example essay. Last modified: 18th Jun 2020
Introduction: In the United States, many health disparities exist among the population of race, ethnicities, gender, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Health inequalities and disease occurrence are often seen among people with low income and different social backgrounds....

Impact of Accountable Care Organizations
Example essay. Last modified: 18th Jun 2020
Introduction: Accountable Care Organization Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) improves quality and patient care outcomes whilst reducing the total cost of healthcare (Panning, 2014).  ACOs consist of three prog...

Assessing Behavior through Observation
Example essay. Last modified: 18th Jun 2020
Introduction: Introduction Assessing behavior through observation can be vital in understanding the cause and the impact certain behaviors are having on an individual as well as those around them. In addition, obse...

Family Assessment and Interventions in Nursing
Example essay. Last modified: 18th Jun 2020
Introduction: Family Assessment and Intervention of the Rogers’ The purpose of this paper is to expand on the interview conducted with a selected family while using the Calgary Family Assessment Model (CFAM) ...

Impact of Obesity in Society and Solutions to the Problem
Example essay. Last modified: 18th Jun 2020
Introduction: Analyse how rising obesity is causing a crisis in modern society, and evaluate current solutions to address this problem. Increasing numbers of obese people in modern society have caused a series of s...

Cannabis and Cannabidiol Policy Proposal
Example essay. Last modified: 17th Jun 2020
Introduction: Healthcare policy is the public program that identifies specific community goals,  plans, decides, and implements programs and actions to achieve those goals. Healthcare policy determines an...

Organizational Culture Analysis: Saint Mary Medical Center
Example essay. Last modified: 17th Jun 2020
Introduction: Introduction to the Organization Saint Mary Medical Center is a 495-bed medical center located on the near Northwest side of Chicago. Formerly known as Saint Mary of Nazareth hospital the structure lo...

History of Human Services
Example essay. Last modified: 17th Jun 2020
Introduction: We, as a society, have not always acknowledged those in need. Nor did we know how to help or provide resources for those less fortunate. The way disabilities were approached was not always the way the...

Does Early Intervention Help Improve the Language Barrier for Children with Autism?
Example essay. Last modified: 17th Jun 2020
Introduction: Due to the rapid growth in Autism diagnoses, ABA clinics have dramatically increased in many states. Medical specialists are now treating ABA therapy as a treatment for obstacles individuals with Auti...

Skills and Technology in Phlebotomy
Example essay. Last modified: 17th Jun 2020
Introduction:  Phlebotomy is more than the skill of drawing blood or acquiring different specimens. It is an important procedure to determine specific aspects of patient health the physicians need to know in o...

Mitral Valve Regurgitation
Example essay. Last modified: 17th Jun 2020
Introduction: Mitral Valve Regurgitation This patient is a forty-eight-year-old plumber. His general practitioner referred him following an insurance medical exam during which a systolic murmur was identified. He w...

History of Hearing Aids and Cochlear Implants
Example essay. Last modified: 17th Jun 2020
Introduction: Introduction: Hearing aids are a small electrical device that goes in or behind your ears. It makes some sounds louder for people who have hearing loss so they can hear, listen and communicate through...

Drug Overdose in America: Who is to Blame?
Example essay. Last modified: 17th Jun 2020
Introduction: Drug Overdose in America – Whose Fault Is It? Drug overdose in America is a collective fault that we all must share. In this paper, I will be taking a different approach by looking at the fundam...

Tuberculosis in Aboriginal People
Example essay. Last modified: 17th Jun 2020
Introduction: Introduction Tuberculosis is caused by a bacterial infection triggered by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, generally from the lungs, though it was also transmitted until lately through the intake of infect...

Orem’s Model of Nursing and Leininger’s Cultural Care Diversity and Universality Theory
Example essay. Last modified: 17th Jun 2020
Introduction: Orem’s Model of Nursing and Leininger’s Cultural Care Diversity Theory Dorothea Orem and Madeleine Leininger are nurse theorists who made an impact by providing awareness of patient’s autono...

Bioterrorism & How It Relates to the Field of Health Care
Example essay. Last modified: 17th Jun 2020
Introduction: Bioterrorism Bioterrorism is a form of terrorism where the attack is done through the intentional release of biological agents like viruses, bacteria or other kinds of germs that causes illness or eve...

Nursing in the Community: Correctional Nursing
Example essay. Last modified: 17th Jun 2020
Introduction: Jail House Nurse: Correctional Nursing National statistic show that violent crime decreased from 2011 to 2015, down to about 5 million. Yes, 5 million, this is still staggering and heart-breaking fact...