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- 921: Home Health Care Nursing
- ... home health care as stated throughout this paper. Once one has decided to become a home health care nurse, the position will be both challenging and an exciting experience. Home health based nursing describes a philosophy of care applicable to all nurses in all settings, reflecting how nursing care is provided - not where (Hunt, 1998). References Benefield, Lazelle (1998), Are you really Ready for Home Health Nursing? American Journal of Nursing ...
- 922: Euthanasia: People Should Have the Right to Choose
- ... without further pain for the patient as well as for the family. The only choice to make after this fact is established is which of these means better carries out the end. James Rachels, a philosophy professor, says that, "if one simply withholds treatment [in the way of passive euthanasia], it may take the patient longer to die, and so he may suffer more than he would if more direct action ...
- 923: Euthanasia In Today's Society
- ... give up my conviction to euthanasia, but lessened it to only the most extreme of conditions. I can definitely say that I have learned a lot from my research and I ended up reshaping my philosophy on the principles of euthanasia in today's society.
- 924: James Rachels' Death and Dying
- ... can not be completely argued on until someone knows exactly what happens when someone passes on to the other side. David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher of the 18th century, remarked that the aim of philosophy should be to replace superstition and false religion with reason and understanding (Rachels 1). So it is safe to say that euthanasia is neither right or wrong. Works Cited Humphry, Derek. Final Exit: The Practicalities ...
- 925: Euthanasia and Living Wills
- ... the ultimate goal for physicians was to maintain life. The death of a patient became a sign of a physician's defeat, the prolonging of life a sign of his or her ability. Although this philosophy still continues new variables were added to the equation in the 1960s. During this decade modern technology began to produce machines such a lung and heart machines capable of taking over normal body functions for ...
- 926: Euthanasia: People Should Have the Right to Choose
- ... without further pain for the patient as well as for the family. The only choice to make after this fact is established is which of these means better carries out the end. James Rachels, a philosophy professor, says that, "if one simply withholds treatment [in the way of passive euthanasia], it may take the patient longer to die, and so he may suffer more than he would if more direct action ...
- 927: Introduction to Human Services
- ... I believe that when a person feels he or she is in a safe environment, he can spend more time on personal growth and awareness instead of wasting energy defending himself. Accepting people as a philosophy, I make a conscienscious decision every time I communicate with people to be aware that what I see as a destructive behavior is most likely a mode of survival for them. Being addicted to something ...
- 928: FGM: Female Genital Mutilation
- ... saying you know better. You may think they are stupid for preforming FGM, but you must remember, they think you are just as stupid for not performing it. Perhaps, these people that perform FGM have philosophy classes too, where they decide if they should try and make the western countries, like the U.S.A., see the great health risk they are taking when they do not perform these circumcisions; "after ...
- 929: Assumptions And Principles Underlying Standards For Care of The Terminally Ill
- ... over time. Staff must recognize that other services may have to be involved, but that continuity of care should be provided. 10. Care is most effective when the patient's lifestyle is maintained and life philosophy respected. The terminally ill patient's own framework of values, preferences, and life outlook must be taken into account in planning and conducting treatment. 11. Patients are often treated as if incapable of understanding or ...
- 930: Treatments of Alcoholism
- ... treating physiological imbalances that may be causing alcohol cravings and throwing the entire body out of whack. For example: hypoglycemia is a common imbalance found in up to three quarters of alcoholics. The center's philosophy is simple "Until the body begins getting the essential nutrients it needs, recovery cannot begin." (Ewing, 1978) They believe that no amount of talk will stop the cravings, anxiety, depression, mental confusion and fatigue that ...
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