ESSAYS -
LIST OF AVAILABLE ESSAYS ...
Select any essay below and it WILL be delivered to you TODAY via your choice of e-mail or fax! --Only $/pg!-- The bibliography page(s) are always FREE!

Reflective Learning Document; Healthcare Promotion
[ send me this essay ]
This 5 page paper is a reflective learning document, discussing the cognitive domain, affective domain and psychomotor domain with reference to a nurse's course on health promotion. The bibliography cites 6 sources.
Filename: TERLHCprom.rtf

Reflective Learning; CPA and a Schizophrenic Client
[ send me this essay ]
This 4 page paper uses Gibbs (1988) reflective cycle to review a scenario where a CPA is prepared for a client with paranoid schizophrenia. The bibliography cites 10 sources.
Filename: TECPAreflect.rtf

Reflective Practice in Psychiatric Nurse Training
[ send me this essay ]
A 24 page overview of the reflective process in psychiatric nursing. Includes an extensive literature review and a proposal to evaluate the degree to which psychiatric nurses at a major psychiatric hospital are exposed to the reflective process in on-the-job training and the degree to which they consequently employ the reflective process in their professional lives. Bibliography lists 30 sources.
Filename: PPpsyRfl.rtf

Reflective Thinking in Nursing
[ send me this essay ]
A 6 page overview of the concept of reflective thinking. Highlights the contentions of Bert Teekman’s “Exploring Reflective Thinking in Nursing Practice”, published in a 2000 edition of the “Journal of Advanced Nursing”. Provides a brief literature review detailing the manner in which various authors emphasized the importance of reflective thinking. Emphasizes that rather than consisting of a series of uncontrolled ideas, such as those that occur in one part of the cognitive processes, reflective thinking is focused and controlled. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: PPnrsRfl.wps

Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy: Chronic Pain And Depression
[ send me this essay ]
A 6 page paper that incorporates and introduction, problem statement, purpose of study, literature review, independent and dependent variables, hypothesis and implications for nursing. The paper identifies the two types of RSD, describes and explains what reflex sympathetic dystrophy is, its incidence, some of the causes and the effects and the correlation between chronic pain and depression. Statistical data included. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: PGrsd.rtf

Reflexology
[ send me this essay ]
This is a 5 page paper discussing reflexology, its origins and current practice. The practice of reflexology is said to have originated with the ancient Chinese, Egyptians and Native Americans with evidence being found on cave paintings found in a tomb in Egypt dated 2330 BC. However, the modern version of reflexology in which regions of the foot are associated with ten vertical zones throughout the body was first researched by Dr. William H. Fitzgerald in Hartford, Connecticut in the early 1900s. The practice of reflexology today is based on the original works of Fitzgerald and other therapists who refined his methods such as Dr. J.S. Riley and his student Eunice Ingham. A holistic therapy, reflexology’s aims are to relieve stress, pain and muscle tension, increase circulation and restore the body’s natural balance and harmony which has been plagued by disease. Although not generally considered a first line of defence by Western physicians, reflexology has become one of the more popular alternative medicine preferred by patients and clinical trials continue to test its effectiveness. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: TJreflx1.rtf

Reforming Health Care
[ send me this essay ]
This 5 page paper discusses the U.S. health care system, why it needs reform and what those reforms might be. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: HVrfhlth.rtf

Refusal Of Antipsychotic Medication By Clients Due To Side Effects: The Practitioner's Role As A Health Promoter/Educator
[ send me this essay ]
12 pages in length. Antipsychotic drugs represent a tremendous breakthrough in treating mental disorders; however, the side effects of these medications can often have a detrimental impact upon the recipient's physical and mental capacities. Such innocuous side effects might include constipation, blurred vision, dry mouth and urinary retention, all of which are mild when considering the exchange for mental balance, but when undesirable adverse reactions occur like weight gain, reduced sexual desire and drowsiness/sedated feeling, it is imperative that health promoters utilize pertinent educational tools in order to instruct their patients on the best health path to follow in relation to such side effects. The need for intervention in a mental health capacity is what comprises a significant portion of the health promoter's role. Employing Caplan's (1990) theory provides one with a better understanding of how to address the delicate balance between sustained mental health and a client's refusal of antipsychotic medication due to side effects, inasmuch as the theory is based much more upon values over and above evidence. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
Filename: TLCAntipsy.rtf

Refusal Of Life-Sustaining Treatment
[ send me this essay ]
19 pages in length. Deciding to live or die is not a decision one makes without sufficient understanding of the hard-boiled implications. When someone suffers from a terminal illness and tires of chasing the disease to the detriment of their quality of life, he or she may decide to refuse any further life-sustaining treatment and allow life to take its course. At issue is what level any legal, medical, political and ethical elements come into play over the course of this decision-making process, as well as the extent to which the patient is competent enough to make such a potentially fatal choice. The writer touches upon several precedence setting cases. Bibliography lists 16 sources.
Filename: TLCRfsLf.rtf

Refusal of Palliative Care/Bioethics
[ send me this essay ]
A 9 page research paper that offers a hypothetical example of a clinical bioethics case report, concerning Joyce, a 68-year-old woman suffering from metastasized liver cancer, who refuses pain medication. Joyce is in agony and her torturous existence, her moans and the fact that she writhes in pain, is affecting all those around her, her daughter, the healthcare professionals responsible for her care, and her fellow patients. Discussion and bioethical analysis is offered. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: khrefpan.rtf