Nursing "Join the ones who dare to care" is the nursing motto. While having to be quite intelligent, a nursing major must also have a caring and compassionate heart. These abilities work together to create efficient nurses, who not only treat their patient's physical well being, b...

New Pathway's in Nursing When I was six years old, my father made a major decision in his life that has ultimately influenced my life and the career goals that I have. After working in the business industry for nine years, he returned to college to pursue his dream of becoming a register...

There is no doubt that nursing has a theoretical basis, regardless of it historical lack of professional recognition. Most nurses would agree that the theoretical beginning of nursing occurred during the reformative period when Florence Nightingale attempted to define what nursing is and what it is ...

Nursing is a career that will never stop growing. When I graduate I plan on going to college and becoming a Registered Nurse specializing in Pediatrics. I have a heart for helping people and I absolutely love kids. That's why I think this will be a great job for me. In order to fully under...

There may not appear to be an obvious "specific knowledge base" in the field of nursing, but in fact there is a knowledge base in every course taken by every nurse, in every medical procedure and healthcare policy nurses are obliged to learn and practice. In every Hospice training facility...

According to Wisconsin's Model of Academic Standards, "Information and Technology Literacy is the ability of an individual, working independently or with others, to use tools, resources, processes, and systems responsibly to access and evaluate information in any medium, and to use that in...

In this book Echo Heron offers an authentic and humorous look into the inner workings of a hospital and its staff. Some of the unbelievable stories she describes give her readers a sense of how exciting, strange and varied the field of medicine can be. Heron's real life account of her experie...

Patient safety is such an important part of our health care system and it helps define quality health care. Keeping our patients safe is a challenging issue because errors and mistakes can and do happen. Error occurs "when a planned sequence of mental and physical activities fail to achieve ...

The majority of medical workers in the 19th century had very little training and skill; a surgeon would have learnt how to operate by becoming the apprentice of another surgeon. Nurses were seen to be quite low in society, what with being surrounded with poorly members of the public and having to w...

Where have all the nurses gone?To put it bluntly- when a student on campus at Hagerstown Community College gets sick, they're screwed. This campus has no medical facility. No licensed nurse. Not even a referral to a local clinic is available. The only way a sick or injured student is going to get an...

Numerous internal departments are comprised throughout Betsy Johnson Regional Hospitals array of health care professionals. All these departments work in unity, with the doctors, to provide medical assistance to people who need medical help. The Emergency Room Department evaluates patients that...

I always knew that I wanted to do something in the medical field, so I attended a healthcare career day while I was in junior high school. After that opportunity, I knew that I wanted to do something in the medical field, so I started volunteering at a nursing home facility where my mom worked. She ...

Predictions of healthcare in 2030 are amazing, to say the least. We could free up scarce physician resources if we empower physician extenders (registered nurses, advanced registered nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and physician assistants) to provide more of the basic care, increase automation vi...

Societies perception about the perfect person is best known to have the perfect body. The healthy habit I have decided to write on is being overweight. Being overweight has many effects on children as well as adults. As an overweight child he or she has many problems growing up. For instance lar...

Health East underwent a major adaptation change in its approach to health care delivery. Medical error reporting should be both mandatory and voluntary if we are to improve quality and accountability in this industry. Health East experienced an adaptation change in its approach to health ca...

IN NEED OF HUMANE HELP The world has evolved tremendously throughout the ages. As days go by, scientists are struggling to improve both quality and length of life by developing new medicines, and by creating more efficient procedures. Through investigation and experimentation science is capable t...

Death and Dying, a topic and merely a condition everyone lives through, is an important issue that is being discussed among doctors and officials in Health Care Departments. Being such a broad topic, aspects such as The Best Defense Against Pain, Finding Comfort, The Ultimate Emotion Challenge (both...

My mom once told me that all faces are beautiful. And this is clearly so in the infant. There is something about a baby's face that illuminates such awe and beauty to people. Hearing such comments as "isn't that the most beautiful baby you've ever seen?" or "that baby is t...

Murphy, C., Simkins, M., and Helowicz, R. (1999). Diabetes exercise project. Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, 12 (Suppl.1), 79-90. This article was designed as a project to see whether or not exercise will improve diabetes control, prevent disease, decrease medication use, and pre...

Physical therapy by definition is "the treatment of physical dysfunction or injury by the use of therapeutic exercise and the application of modalities, intended to restore, or facilitate normal function or development"(source#1). Even though physical therapy as a profession is rather new...

Ulcerative Colitis Ulcerative Colitis is a chronic disease of inflammation in the large intestine. Characteristics are bloody stool with mucous or puss. This disease is not gender specific and peaks around ages 15-40. It is seen more often among Jewish and upper middle class people. This dis...

Five A.M. mornings, navy blue scrubs, mental stability became the bases of my junior year. My most zealous intellectual task, so far, has been my experience with the Clinical Rotation Program at Plano West Senior High. This career course selected qualified students to rotate in three major Plano are...

Chris stopped to catch his breath. "I'll catch up , you go on without me " as he held his chest. Baillie stopped in concern, "you've been doing that a lot lately are you okay?" Tim ran on, glad to be ahead for a change. "He's a trooper, its not like he is going to die or something." Their mothers we...

What is a pediatrician? A pediatrician is a physician who treats children. The choice to care for children should be based on a love for children and a belief that it is a significant accomplishment to make a difference in a child's life. As a bonus, a pediatrician gets to hold his patients in his ...

A physician's assistant plays a big role in the medical field. Many people think that physician's assistants are people who could not become a physician, but that is usually a false statement. Many people become a physician's assistant instead of a physician so that they always have s...