ADHD and the Role of the Psychiatric Nurse
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A 4 page overview of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. This paper describes symptoms, diagnosis and treatment options. The emphasis is made that psychiatric nurses are in an advantageous position to positively influence the treatment of patients with ADHD. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: PPadhdPsyNrs.rtf

ADHD: A Critique of the Research
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A 4 page critique of the literature on Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. This paper describes symptoms, diagnosis and treatment options. The emphasis is made that psychiatric nurses are in an advantageous position to positively influence the treatment of patients with ADHD. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: PPadhdLitCrtq.rtf

ADHD: Legitimate Medical Diagnosis or Socially Constructed Disorder? - Ethical Concerns
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A 24 page discussion of the bioethics surrounding the controversial diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. This paper explores the question of whether this condition has been created by overzealous parents, teachers, doctors, and the pharmaceutical industry.
Filename: PPadhdBioethics.rtf

Adult Obesity
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A 10 page consideration of obesity. This paper explores the causes of obesity and presents an evidence-based management plan to address it. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: PPobesityadult.rtf

Adult Obesity: Causes And Effects
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A 5 page paper. More than 60 percent of the American public is overweight or obese and more than 280,000 people die every year as a result of obesity. Obesity causes numerous physical, psychological and social problems. This paper discusses the causes of obesity and its effects on the obese adult. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: PGadob3.rtf

Advance Directives
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Every individual has the right and responsibility for their own life and decisions and, if they should ever find themselves in a position where their quality of life is threatened by continued medical intervention, they should have the right to decide not to receive that treatment. This 5 page paper explores the Patient Self Determination Act of 1990 as it relates to advance directives such as the living will or the designation of a health proxy. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: KTslfdet.wps

ADVANCED DIRECTIVES AND THE LIVING WILL
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This 3-page paper discussses the concepts of advanced directives and living wills, and discusses what a living will is comprised of. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: MTlivwil.rtf

Advanced Practice Nursing
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A 10 page paper discussing the continuing evolution of advanced practice nursing and the resistance it receives from physician groups. Nurse practitioners and other advanced practice nurses have filled significant roles in US health care for years. They have legal rights and the technical expertise to take on much of the burden of providing direct health care services, generally under the supervision of an MD. This advanced practice niche is a hybrid position arising from increasing pressures on the still-evolving health care American health care system; it is a position respected in the profession and welcomed by patients. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: KSnursAdvPrac.rtf

Advances in Body-Scan Imaging Technologies
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A 15 page paper discussing the technology involved in computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ultrasound, positron emission tomography (PET), and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). Though medical imaging technology seemed to languish for nearly a generation without much technological advance beyond that which allowed the creation of various approaches, the continuing evolution of the entire health care system seems to be creating an environment in which additional technological advance not only is encouraged but then embraced when it emerges. Managed care’s “bean counting” approach to finance discouraged imaging advance in past years, but ultimately may well be the single most important factor in continuing technological advance in imaging techniques. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: KSmriPetImageTech.rtf

Advances in Medical Biotechnology
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This 4 page paper takes a look at different advances to come about in the field. Ethics are examined. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: SA816Med.rtf

Adverse Drug Reactions and Metabolic Changes Associated with Antipsychotic Medications
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In twelve pages this paper examines the adverse drug reactions or metabolic changes that are associated with antipsychotic medications and also considers the implications of these antipsychotic drug reactions to the nursing profession. Ten sources are listed in the bibliography.
Filename: TGantipsymed.rtf

African “AIDS Orphans”
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This 10 page paper explores the plight of the African “AIDS orphans,” children who have been orphaned by the death of their parents from AIDS. These children face significant difficulties not faced by other children who are orphaned in other ways. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: HVaidsor.rtf

African Americans And The Health Care System
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This 17 page paper reports the health status of African-Americans in the U.S. Statistics about the incidence of specific diseases and mortality rates among Black Americans as compared to White Americans are reported. The essay includes a discussion of the barriers to quality health care services. For instance, Black women are more likely to die of colon, rectal and breast cancer and Black men are more than twice as likely to die of prostrate cancer. The writer then turns to report the racial and ethnic composition of physicians as well as that of medical students. The discussion includes a few suggestions for correcting this inequity in quality health care. Statistical data included. Bibliography lists 27 sources.
Filename: PGblkhth.rtf

African Americans in Rural Georgia, Diabetes, and Community Healthcare Planning
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In six pages this paper examines the growing problem of diabetes among the African American ethnic communities in Georgia, Rabun County in particular, in an overview that considers how the problem has been addressed, the development of community goals to deal with the problem, and how such a community plan to achieve these goals can be implemented. Four sources are listed in the bibliography. TGafamdia.rtf
Filename: TGafamdia.rtf

African and Asian AIDS Trials
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This 2 page paper provides an overview of questions related to the AIDS trials in Africa and Asia in the 1990s. When randomized clinical trials of plausible AIDS treatments were tested on HIV positive women in African and Asia in the 1990s, questions were raised about the ethics of these trials.
Filename: MHAIDTRI.rtf

African Sleeping Sickness
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A 5 page overview of African Sleeping Sickness and the Organisms that cause it. The author discusses the manner in which the disease is transmitted, its impact to the body, symptoms and treatment. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: PPslpSi2.rtf

Against Euthanasia
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This 7 page paper discusses reasons for opposition to physician assisted suicide or other legalized forms of euthanasia. Bibliography lists 20 sources.
Filename: HVNoEuth.rtf