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African/Caribbean Traditional Practitioners, 2005.
This paper analyzes the way African/Caribbean traditional practitioners integrate holistic techniques and methods into psychotherapy and general health care settings.
3,070 words (approx. 12.3 pages), 15 sources, APA, $ 89.95
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This paper explains that, while traditional medicine is used by an overwhelming majority of the people of the world today, traditional medicine practitioners are increasingly recognizing the efficacy of Western health care modalities and many are incorporating these techniques into their practices. The author points out that traditional medicine is a particularly favored approach for some mental health issues in Africa and the Caribbean where sufferers steadfastly believe that such mental health maladies can only be resolved with such techniques. The paper relates that the integration of costly Western medicine into traditional medicine practices ultimately may make these techniques too expensive for many consumers, leaving these patients to be treated by traditional medicine practitioners armed with a pantheon of evil spirits and herbal remedies for virtually any ailment including HIV/AIDS . Table.
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Introduction
Review and Discussion
Background and Overview
Traditional Medicine in the African/Caribbean Context
Integration of Traditional Medicine Methods in Mental Health Care Settings
Conclusion
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"There are dramatically different levels of funding provided by the different countries for health care purposes in these regions of the world; for example, in Kenya, individual private-sector payments represent 41 percent of total outlays for health and such expenditures account for 75-80 percent of total health care costs in Sudan. This author reports that private-sector payments in many African nations are used for traditional medicine treatments even if alternative methods are available. In Guinea, for example, private expenditures on health have already exceeded official government expenditures on health care. Likewise, private health care spending in Benin is already reportedly higher than the ministry of health recurrent budget, and in Ethiopia, private expenditures represent 66 percent of the total financing for modern health care."
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African and Caribbean Diaspora, 2006.
This paper discusses the forced migration of African peoples from their homelands to other parts of the world.
1,356 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 45.95
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This paper discusses the effects the African and Caribbean diaspora has had on the African-American population throughout history. Three subtopics are covered. The first is a discussion of how it has affected the identity of African-Americans through a loss of cultural heritage. The second subtopic deals with effects on the family and how gender roles of men and women within the household have been switched. Thirdly, the loss of self-value suffered by African-Americans from a collective feeling of inferiority to white Americans and the American upper class are discussed. By the conclusion of this paper, the reader should have a sound understanding of the factors that have shaped the current African-American culture and the struggles they still face.
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"As stated in the introduction, the African and Caribbean diaspora refers to the forced migration of African peoples from their homelands to other parts of the world, mainly North America and the Caribbean. This paper will focus mainly around the forced North American migration. The term 'forced' is used because that was exactly how the migration came about. Put bluntly, an astounding number of African people were abducted from their homelands, separated from their families, and shipped like cargo to different areas of the world, including North America. From the first moment of abduction, African people were subjected to a series of cruel treatments meant to dehumanize and prepare them for a life to be lived as property, as slaves. The brutal and malicious acts Africans were helplessly subjected to attacked their self-value and succeeded in eroding their view of themselves not only as a collective African people, but also as human beings."
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The Tale-Telling Tradition of Women in Caribbean Literature, 2002.
This literature essay compares two stories written by Caribbean women authors, and discusses these in relation to women's oral histories and traditions in Caribbean cultural contexts
2,650 words (approx. 10.6 pages), 8 sources, $ 97.95
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This literature essay compares two stories written by Caribbean women authors, and discusses these in relation to women's oral histories and traditions in Caribbean cultural contexts. Referring to the post-colonial and feminist theory, the author of this paper analyzes women's writing as a reflection of traditions with story-telling, women's "voice," and histories that are particular to women and Caribbean culture.
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Nurse Practitioners, 2005.
An investigation of the use of advanced registered nurse practitioners in an in-patient hospitalist setting.
3,120 words (approx. 12.5 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 90.95
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While it has long been understood that nurse practitioners are valuable tools for the provision of quality health care in both the rural and urban setting, it is a relatively new idea that Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioners (ARNPs) be used in the place of physicians as hospitalists. This paper examines whether ARNPs are already widely used in the management of patients in an inpatient setting. It also questions that is the scope of their practice, and how do they feel about their practice. It asks the following questions: What major factors are related to the employment of nurse practitioners in the hospital setting? What do their co-workers, to include hospital administrators and supervising physicians feel about the quality of work these nurse practitioners provide? These questions are the basis for this research project. The writer identifies some new and interesting workplaces in which nurse practitioners may be employed, as well as identifying potential problems in their performance or pre-employment education which may well lead to a change in the state of nurse practitioner education as we know it. The writer hypothesizes that nurse practitioners are uniquely suited and eminently qualified to perform as inpatient hospitalists.
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"It is almost becoming a required statement in any paper about health care that we are facing a crisis in health care delivery and it appears that we are all chalking it up to the aging baby boomer population. But this is not the whole truth. There are many medically underserved populations, from urban centers to geriatrics to rural health clinics who have nothing to do with the baby boom population, and yet contribute significantly to the lack of available health care in the United States. Financial issues are a significant driving factor, as insurance companies are becoming more careful about what they will allow. We find ourselves with more patients, sicker patients, those aging population patients that we talked about, many of whom have polypharmacy and comorbidities. We are seeing less funding for resident medical education, and these changes mean that large teaching hospitals and rural centers have smaller staffs to deal with more work. It must also be noted that recent legistlation now restricts residency work hours, so they can no longer be the used and abused workhorses they once were (Foster and Seizer, 1991). But who can fill the gap which used to be dropped on the residents or others like them? One innovation is the installation of nurse practitioner to share in the inpatient management of this population, in collaboration with the hospitalist."
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Nurse Practitioners, 2008.
A discussion on the advantages of nurse practitioners in Canada.
1,848 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 11 sources, APA, $ 59.95
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Canadians have seen a constant deterioration in the existing health care system and current wait times have exceeded accepted limits and medical manpower has significantly decreased. This paper examines how in reaction to these growing problems Canada's health care officials have began implementing a relatively new role for nurses into the health care system. It looks at how the nurse practitioner has a master's degree in nursing and additional education in medical care and how, by employing the nurse practitioner in many areas of health care there has been an increase in access to existing recourses, decreased wait times, improved health outcomes by early diagnosis and overall health education.
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The Nurse Practitioner Advantage
Nurse Practitioners Are Crucial
General Practitioners and Nurse Practitioners Working Together
Conclusion
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"Nevertheless, implementing NPs into the current health care system is facing some difficulties. The biggest sets backs have been from the opposition of general practitioners (physicians). General practitioners are nervous that nurse practitioners will be taking employment opportunities away that were previously dedicated to only doctors. And some doctors are even going to the extreme as of saying that nurse practitioners are so under qualified that they are dangerous. One doctor, Dr. Scott Stern, was reported saying, "in most situations, patients are compromising their care and settling for less when they see someone other then a doctor.... To assume that somebody who has much less training is going to do as good a job just doesn't make any sense" (Perez, 2006). But, the role of the NP is not designed to replace any other member of the health care system, but rather is intended to work in relationships to improve timely access to care with a slightly different approach to care. "
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Nurse Practitioners, 2005.
This paper is a research proposal to study the cost effectiveness of using nurse practitioners in an endocrinology practice.
27,090 words (approx. 108.4 pages), 33 sources, MLA, $ 249.95
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This paper explains that the research studies (1) the cost of nurse practitioners which affects a significant percentage of practitioners in the endocrinology field, (2) nurse practitioners who have not yet been accepted enough to ensure that a high percentage of individuals in this field can find work in endocrinology practices and (3) the cost effectiveness of nurse practitioners in the endocrinology field must be further studied and better understood. The author points out that most patients deal with nurses much more than they deal with doctors; therefore, nurses are very important to patients and their recovery. The paper relates that the research methodology will include a review of literature and a survey of at least 100 individuals working in the field.
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Introduction
Statement of the Problem
Purpose of the Study
Importance of the Study
Scope of the Study
Rationale for the Study
Overview of the Study
Review of the Literature
Methodology
Research Design and Approach
Population and Sample
Collection and Tabulation of Data
Data Analysis Procedure
Limitations of the Study
Reliability and Validity of the Data
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"Managed care has had a large effect on the way that Medicare works and how it does business. Many of the Medicare policies were changed by President Clinton when he was still in office, but despite this, the system was still in a state of disrepair. The financial problems of Medicare were still very obvious when Clinton was in office, and that has not really changed. The financial troubles of Medicare are still very real, and it will take more than a few small policy changes to get rid of them.
Now, in order to try to help their financial troubles, Medicare is making changes in the methods that they normally used to reimburse doctors. They have changed their reimbursement system as it pertains to private practice doctors seeing patients that have Medicare insurance. Instead of paying the traditional fee-for-service that most private doctors charge, Medicare and Medicare HMOs are actually paying the doctors on the basis of what the local healthcare market will support for each type of plan. In other words, the doctors are all getting paid what Medicare thinks that they should get paid, but it is also fair market value for their services in that particular local area."
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Nursing Practitioners and Asthma Patients, 2002.
A literature review to compare how nursing practitioners and physicians compare in referring asthma patients to specialists.
2,135 words (approx. 8.5 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 66.95
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This paper examines how nurse practitioners compare with physicians in referring asthma patients to the right specialists. The paper explains that a literature review on this topic was performed because nurse practitioners are playing an increasing role in primary medical care, but are still meeting some opposition from physicians who consider them less qualified and fear they are draining funds away from their practices. The paper looks at the question whether nurse practitioners would recognize the need for referral to a specialist as readily as would a physician.
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"In some places, nurse practitioners are setting up practices on their own, independent of physicians (Ventura, 1998). In Manhattan, a group known as Columbia Advanced Practice Nurse Associates (CAPNA) have admitting privileges at one of the city's leading medical centers and have secured contracts with three HMOs to serve as primary care providers with reimbursements at the same rates as physicians. While NPs were originally created to provide service in areas where doctors were scarce, they are rapidly becoming accepted everywhere, and the Department of Veterans Affairs issued a policy statement encouraging the use of NPs, saying the could provide up to 80 percent of patients' healthcare needs."
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Critical Care Practitioners, 2005.
This paper discusses the role of critical care practitioners in the United Kingdom.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 39.95
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This paper reviews how critical care practitioners in the United Kingdom can find information on new research in their area of specialty, how this can be communicated and how it can be implemented into their patient care. The author investigates clinical audits. The paper urges the establishment of a baseline audit before implementing new practices and monitoring their effects on patient well-being.
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"Since there is great variety between institutions and between individual nurses and patients, there is no simple practice of critical care, which will suit call cases. Managers of clinical areas need to work with providers of education to make sure that ..."
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African Americans and Native Africans, 2002.
A comparison of the different sub-cultures of the African American minority group in the United States.
2,370 words (approx. 9.5 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 72.95
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This paper discusses the history and culture of the recent immigrants to the United States from Africa and the Caribbean. It details how these immigrants are labeled as "African Americans" and lumped into the same sub-culture as the veteran African American population of the United States since the slave-trade. These two population groups are compared for their manners, cultures and social norms. A history of African immigration to America is provided.
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"The African Americans, or Black Americans as they are called, are the largest minority group in the United States, after the Hispanic Americans. This is a racial group whose ancestry is believed to be from the sub-Saharan Africa. However, there are some African Americans who claim to have their roots from the European immigrants, Native American or the Asians. In general the African American populations is usually referred to as Negroes, blacks and Afro-Americans. "
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Gerontological Nurse Practitioners, 2003.
This paper examines the role of the gerontological nurse practitioner in today's medical care.
2,505 words (approx. 10.0 pages), 12 sources, APA, $ 76.95
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The paper explains that, with the doubling of the number of people age 85 years and older by 2040, the majority of families in the United States, at one time or another, will experience the devastating effects of chronic long-term illness. The author points out that gerontological nurse practitioners (GNP) are part of a growing field of highly trained paramedical personnel who provide clinical services to patients under the supervision of a physician and share with physicians the direct responsibility for patient care. The paper relates that GNP serves in the area of home health nursing, which is an illness-oriented service giving continuous care to the patient, and community health nursing, which is aggregate- focused, emphasizing wellness, health promotion, and primary prevention.
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Introduction
Review and Discussion
Definitions
Nurse Practitioner
Gerontological
Delineation of the Scope of Practice
Factors Facilitating and Constraining Role Development In Practice
Facilitating Factors
Obstacles
Aspects of Interdisciplinary/Multidisciplinary Collaboration and Consultation
Potential Practice Settings
Conclusion
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"Webster's (2003) defines gerontology as "the comprehensive study of aging and the problems of the aged." In many developed countries the increase in the relative size of the elderly, and more particularly the very old, population has been perceived as an issue presenting major challenges to governments, service providers, and society as a whole. In addition, the aging process in the individual is associated with declines in the homeostatic mechanisms that bring about adaptive responses to environmental challenges, and all indicators of health status, including service use, show strong associations with age According to Small (1994), as the term is applied specifically to nursing home care, a gerontological nurse practitioner should be prepared by virtue of both education and experience to focus on a particular age group such as older persons (the gerontological nurse practitioner) or, by contrast, on the life span (the family nurse practitioner)."
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African Poverty and the Bankruptcy of African Leadership, 2005.
Examines poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa and the failure of African leaders to enact strong economic and agricultural policies geared towards change in the region.
1,734 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 56.95
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This paper demonstrates that African leaders have contributed significantly to the growing problems of poverty in the Sub-Saharan African region by failing to address endemic problems of embezzlement, bribery, corruption, and nepotism. The paper also shows that many of these leaders are unable to institute effective economic and agricultural development policies geared towards uplifting the African people from their current state of poverty to that of self-reliance.
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"From time to time, some parts of Africa are prone to drought, but this paper takes the position that drought constitutes a very negligible aspect of the problem of poverty in Africa. Technological innovation could be adopted to deal with the issue of drought as has been demonstrated in Israel. The core problem in Africa is bad government and poor management of the peoples' resources. Africa holds the majority of the world's natural resources, but the continent is suffering from a leadership crisis that is basically symptomatic of all the African states."
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Zen Practitioners in the West, 2008.
An analysis of the challenges and opportunities that face Zen Buddhism as it is practiced in the West.
1,694 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 54.95
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This paper looks at Zen practitioners and what challenges they face as they practice in the West. It particularly discusses the ignorance which seems to have sprung up over time with regards to the precise nature of Zen Buddhism and looks at how Zen practitioners must confront this ignorance by vigorously educating neophyte westerners interested in the religion and philosophy but who may be ill-informed about its origins and teachings. The paper also looks at the lingering specter of racism and the common misperception regarding Buddhist "retributive" or karmic suffering.
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"Lastly, Buddhism is diminished in the popular imaginings of many westerners because of its apparent tolerance for human suffering - a situation which, given its association with India, can lead it to being confused with the ugly caste system historically supported by its rival (and philosophical cousin), Hinduism. Zen Buddhism thus can become easily seen as the manifestation of a religion that takes a neglectful view of the degradation visited upon unfortunate groups within a society. What is rather ironic about all of this is that the harsh, retributive notion of "karma" is actually quite alien to canonical Buddhism (Jones, 66) but the notion that Buddhism encourages this sort of human misery is a popular article of faith among its critics (Crabtree, no.6)."
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Nurse Practitioners, 2003.
Describes their impact on patient care and medical costs.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 8 sources, $ 47.95
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Discusses using nurse practitioners in place of physicians for various functions, including treatment of diabetes patients (nurse certified as diabetes educator), general physical examinations, and in health promotion activities.
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"The position of nurse practitioner began in 1965 in the United States and has made steady progress since that date to where today, state practice laws are in many cases not requiring physician supervision, and some states give nurse practitioners..."
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Nurse Practitioners And Medical Doctors, 2002.
Overview of the different roles of the N.P. and the M.D.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 26 sources, $ 79.95
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Overview of the different roles of the N.P. and the M.D. Issue of whether these roles involve supervision, collaboration and/or cooperation. Discusses health care delivery, history and current status of N.P. roles. Changes in health care; managed care. Changes in role of nurses. Physicians opposition to nurse practitioners.
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"NPs AND MDs
SUPERVISION, COLLABORATION, OR COOPERATION
Introduction
This research paper will present an overview of the NP and MD with regard to their different roles and whether these roles involve supervision, collaboration, cooperation, or all three. Included in this discussion will be the following topics: health care delivery, history and current status of NP roles; NP and MD roles; NP and MD collaboration; NP independence and MD opposition; implications and future hopes for the NP; and conclusions.
Health Care Delivery, History & Current Status of NP Roles
Aiken, Clarke, Sloane, and Sochalski (2001) state that currently there is a nursing shortage, and hospital nurses are reporting job ..."
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Teachers as Reflective Practitioners, 2004.
Discusses the benefits of reflective practice in the educational field.
800 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 28.95
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Reflective practice involves thinking about and learning from one's own practice and from the practices of others so as to gain new perspectives on the dilemmas and contradictions inherent in one's educational situation. This paper discusses how, despite concerns earlier about the usefulness of reflective practice in teacher education, many schools, colleges, and departments of education have developed ways to incorporate reflective practice, not only into teacher preparation, but also into ongoing professional development.
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"There are different levels of reflective practice and different methods of incorporating it into teaching. Coaching and peer involvement are two aspects of reflective practice seen often at the pre-service level. Ferraro (2000) explain some of the ways that teacher educators can coach student teachers in reflective practice by using students? personal histories, dialogue journals, and group discussions about their experiences to help the students reflect upon and improve their practices. The reflective writings and peer group discussions have encouraged the student teachers to challenge existing theories and their own preconceived views of teaching. Critical reflection in group sessions is also helpful in in-service teaching. However, in addition to group sessions, other activities suggested include study teams and peer coaching where teachers continuously examine their assumptions and practices."
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