Category: Health & Medicine 13691

  • Athletes’ Injuries and Coping Strategies

    Sport: an athletes’ sense of identity, source of self-esteem, and way of dealing with stress It is very accurate that injuries affect athletes’ everyday lives to a greater extent. As such, injured athletes find it difficult to cope with sustaining injuries. Sports injuries generally traumatize and alter athletes’ psychological state of mind. Most players hold…

  • Data-Based Changes: Big Data Analytics

    Table of Contents Big Data and Data Mining in Healthcare Continuity Planning Article Analysis Conclusion References The Healthcare sector is heavily relying on the use of data to make significant changes in recent years. Data-based changes help healthcare systems to predict risks, plan for prevention, and recovery strategies to minimize losses. The use of big…

  • Autistic Children’s Behavior Problems

    Table of Contents Introduction Analysis Conclusion Works Cited Introduction The term “autism” originated at the beginning of the twentieth century and was coined by a Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler (Feinstein 5). Bleuler identified autism as a mode of thinking, opposing it to another mode: logical and realistic (Feinstein 6). Thus, the historical definition…

  • Peplau’s Theory in Patient-Nurse Interaction

    Since in this research the interaction between a nurse and patients with obesity is the key element, Hildegard Peplau’s theory of Interpersonal Relations in nursing is taken. Originating from psychiatry, this theory was reconstructed for nursing by Peplau in 1952 (Jones, 2014). Her theory suggested that interpersonal relations with patients aimed at improving health are…

  • The OpenEMR System and Its Project Phases

    The OpenEMR system has three different interfaces to suit the needs of different users. The first user interface is designed for patients or clients. The clients’ UI is simple to ensure a good customers experience while using the system. It has bright colors that blend into each other to enhance legibility (see Appendix A). The…

  • Reid’s Documentary “Inside Ayurvedic Medicine”

    Table of Contents Introduction Discussion Conclusion References Introduction Cultures around the world differ in their approaches to the delivery of healthcare. The past several decades saw a substantial increase in the acceptance of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in the West (Park, Beckman-Harned, Cho, Kim, & Kim, 2012). Growth in the number of Ayurvedic practitioners…

  • Spatial Cognition in Blind and Neglect Patients: The Role of Visual Experiences

    Introduction For human beings, knowing the objects’ location and the ability to navigate have always been crucial for survival and performing the majority of activities. The acquisition, storage, utilisation, organisation, and revision of individual knowledge about the environment are closely connected with spatial cognition, a complex and multidimensional process of the environment’s perception that comprises…

  • Four Processes of the Pharmacokinetic Phase

    In order to describe the four processes of the pharmacokinetic phase, one is to primarily turn to the definition of the pharmacokinetics. According to Le (2020), pharmacokinetics is essentially the drug’s movement through the body, as well as in and out of it – or, in other words, the body’s processing of the drug. There…

  • Pressure Ulcer Prevention Using an Evidence-Based Checklist

    Table of Contents Introduction Research Questions Basic Research Designs Questions Used Analytical Methods Conclusion References Introduction Issues of clinical relevance are often not narrowly focused but instead seek to explore a set of practical measures that can make the patient’s experience better. Including one such pressing issue is the prevention of bedsores for inpatients who…

  • Intravenous Catheter Insertion Improvement

    One of the nurses’ common responsibilities in the workplace is performing venipuncture for intravenous injection which allows liquid substances to be distributed evenly and have the desired effect on a patient. There is evidence that a significant number of nurses lack appropriate training which complicates catheter insertion. One of the suggested evidence-based practices in this…