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A Chronic Pain Management Program, 2008.
This paper outlines a program that would effectively manage chronic pain and improve functional health outcomes in older adults.
1,859 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 59.95
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The paper discusses a program that is targeted at older adults who suffer from chronic pain, utilizing a combination of therapies that are holistic and address conditions that affect the mind, body and emotions. The paper explains that chronic pain must include issues of loss and stress and this can only be achieved through the use of complementary and alternative interventions. The paper concludes that while there are restrictions on the implementation of this program, its main value is that it incorporates patients who are otherwise excluded, such as those with dementia.
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Introduction
The Necessity of the Program
The Elements of the Program
Health Teaching
Interventions and Individual Differences
Outcomes of the Program
Conclusion
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"A complex continuing care program is intended to provide care for older patients who experience complex medical conditions in a non-acute hospital setting. Complex medical conditions include pain and symptom management, recovery from stroke, along with other chronic medical conditions which impact on patients' physical, emotional, social and spiritual well-being. The program was developed because pain among the elderly is often not adequately treated. When pain in older adults is not effectively managed, there are serious impacts on their physical and psychological functioning as well as on their quality of life (Herr, 2002)."
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Pain Management, 2005.
A discussion of the challenges of pain management in sickle cell diseases.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 8 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper discusses pain management, particularly in sickle cell disease. The paper describes the way that effective pain management can not only reduce physical discomfort, but also promote quality of life. The paper then describes the challenges of managing pain in sickle cell diseases, where the pain is chronic, however also has acute episodes.
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"Lived Experience of Sickle Cell Disease and Health Promotion Introduction Effective pain management not only reduces physical discomfort but also promotes quality of life. Nurses have the ethical and professional duty of managing pain and enhancing quality of life for their patients. However, with sickle cell disease, since chronic pain is combined with episodes of acute pain, pain management becomes a real challenge (Tanyi, 2003). The research question underlying this literature review is: how can a patient's pain be adequately managed and their quality of life improved during a hospital stay? The phenomenon of interest in this paper is pain management and how it is the key for improving quality of life."
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Chronic Pain and Depression, 2005.
An exploration of the relationship between chronic pain and depression in patients.
3,518 words (approx. 14.1 pages), 17 sources, APA, $ 98.95
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This research paper attempts to evaluate whether patients suffering from chronic pain are more likely to be misdiagnosed as suffering from depression because their condition and disease is 'invisible' to physicians. More specifically the paper attempts to determine if there is a relationship between depression and chronic pain, and if so what the nature of that relationship is.
Introduction
Preliminary Literature Review
Conclusions
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"There is a large body of evidence that suggests that patients suffering from chronic pain also suffer from psychological illnesses such as anxiety or depression (Hendler, 2003; Nelson & Novy, 1997). The question to be explored is whether or not the pain experienced results from the psychological illness (depression) or the depression results from the chronic pain. Common practice in the medical community up until this point in time has been to assume that chronic pain or the perception of pain results more from psychological factors such as depression, rather than to view depression as resulting from the inadequate treatment of chronic pain symptoms."
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Chronic Pain and Depression, 2002.
This paper introduces, discusses and analyzes the topic of chronic pain and resulting depression.
1,785 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 57.95
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Specifically the paper shows the connection between chronic pain and depression. It defines these terms and examines how it affects the person and the ones around them. The paper addresses treatment options and discusses ways to break the cycle.
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"What causes depression? For thousands of years, depression was thought to simply be a weakness of the mind, often called "melancholia. "Depression is caused, in part, by certain life goals which become unfeasible, but which a person cannot abandon, this resulting in reflection upon lost goals. To gradually abandon these goals and to work towards other goals is to overcome the depression" (Miletich, 1995, p. 11). Today, we know depression is a treatable disease, and often physicians and therapists treat it with a variety of anti-depressive drugs, gaining very positive results. However, there is another kind of depression that is much more difficult to treat, because it is linked to a physical ailment, chronic pain. "
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Management of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, 2007.
An examination of the most effective management principles of chronic fatigue syndrome.
1,933 words (approx. 7.7 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 61.95
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This paper examines the disorder of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). It particularly emphasizes disease management. The paper reviews the disorder, symptoms and prognosis. It then provides a more detailed examination of the problematic aspects in managing day-to-day activities, such as work, family and social obligations, due to the illness. The paper looks at how patient lifestyle modifications and adaptive measures can influence the outcome of CFS.
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Managing the Disorder
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"CFS is a complex and demanding disorder that significantly alters one's lifestyle and affects more than just the patient. Comprehensive understanding of the disorder and how each patient is affected are essential in order to help the patient manage their disorder effectively and avoid further depressive, frustration and anger based emotional complications that normally plague an individual with a chronic disorder. For the patient with CFS, such a reaction creates a negative cyclical spiral. A positive approach and helping the patient to accept their situation, focusing on what they can do rather than on their limitations will promote a sense of well-being rather than disability."
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Resistance and Pain, 2003.
An analysis of the notion of resistance in light of the way chronic pain sufferers use narrative and objectification to resist pain and how chronic pain in turns resists political economic pressures.
2,745 words (approx. 11.0 pages), 15 sources, MLA, $ 82.95
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This paper uses Foucault?s work on biopower and governmentality to analyse chronic pain as a resistance to power/knowledge formations that express themselves in terms of control over the body. It attempts to analyse chronic pain by using three different notions of resistance. It looks at how chronic pain causes a contraction of the social world especially in situations of biomedical practice when the moral decision ?it?s all in your head? can often be made by doctors. It examines how this process resists speech (and thus resocialisation) by analysing the dialectical tension this resistance has with the stress, rage and the impulse that drives us to unsettle or confound the fixed order of things. It then explores the resistance that people have to the pain that they feel followed by rage for order.
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"Chronic pain confounds many of the concepts and methods used for its analysis, in part because of the privileging of certain spheres of analysis. This is noticeable in a set of assumptions that are part of both biomedical and western philosophical theory. This set of assumptions assumes a divide between mind and body; it assumes that diseases are universal biological or pyschophysiological entities resulting from somatic lesions and dysfunctions. These can produce signs of symptoms, and one must decode the cultural elements of patients systems in terms of their underlying somatic referents. If the symptoms do not fit this mould, then one is denied illness in the biomedical model."
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Case Management, 2004.
This paper discusses case management, a process of health care, especially community care programs for the elderly and disabled (CCPED).
800 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 28.95
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This paper explains that case management involves helping the patient find, access, and benefit from the medial procedures, treatments, and lifestyle solutions available to his or her particular needs. The author points out that case management, which usually is administered under the centralized direction of a case manager, is indicated for complex or chronic patients, including those in long-term or geriatric care, in order to insure that their unique and usually complex needs are adequately met. The paper relates that CCPED provides home and community-based services for Medicaid-eligible persons who are 65 years of age or older or persons of any age who are disabled, including traditional home health care services, medical day care, medical transportation, respite care, and social adult daycare.
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"Some examples of services that can be coordinated and supported through good case management is the creation of an individualized treatment/care plan, establishment of a connection between the patient and government support or benefits, education aimed at helping the patient manage his or her condition in a positive way, coordination between the many providers often required in complex, chronic or long term cases, as well as help in scheduling needed treatment or services."
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The DARE Program (Drug Awareness Resistance Program), 2002.
This paper discusses the DARE program. DARE (Drug Awareness Resistance Program), a program designed to educate students about illegal drugs
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 71.95
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This paper relates that DARE guides children to resis using as they get older and others begin to experiment. The author explains the program, its positive and negative sides and supports the premise. The paper gives suggestions To improve the program.
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Human Relations Management, 2004.
This paper discusses the way various companies have solved current human relations management problems in the area of health care, information technology, and management systems.
2,600 words (approx. 10.4 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 78.95
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This paper explains that some companies have begun experimenting with a labor/management partnership as a response to inevitable and rising costs of health care, which appears to be an effective model. The author points out that the experiences of companies, such as Hershey, Whirlpool, Starbucks, and Bang & Olufsen, provide important examples of the problem of introducing new information technology and its role in industry, especially in the area of human resources. The paper relates that the World Bank developed a Performance Advisory Service (PAS) model for dealings with problem workers, such as chronically poor performers, which does away with the hard-line approach of simply firing, demoting, or transferring the dysfunctional employee.
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"Leadership failures occur most frequently because of ineptness, the inability to catch up with development requirements or simply because of a wrong diagnosis or handling of problems (Heisler 1989). Newer and more unprecedented changes and forces keep coming and, in many cases, they do not get addressed adequately because of a company's adherence to old ways. Managers and leaders get accustomed to old laws of doing things and, with the ingress of new developments, old programs prove ineffective, cash-draining and result in employee restiveness. There is urgent need to change the American business culture from a fast-buck and short-change format to a long-term and employee-oriented action as the only way to build or remain competitive. And there is greater need to adopt a system or a new vision in making a correct diagnosis and implementing correct responses to new problems within or affecting the human resources department.
Foremost among these new problems and issues are on health care, information technology and the management system."
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Treatment Programs for Wife Batterers: Assessment of the Dose Program, 1992.
A proposal for a study on the effectiveness of a treatment program designed to prevent spousal abuse. Includes a literature review and methods section.
3,375 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 27 sources, $ 119.95
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"Introduction
In several speeches in 1989, the United States Surgeon General indicated that over 2 million women are physically assaulted by their spouses or partners each year (Geffner & Rosenbaum, 1990). The O.J. Simpson trial, despite its many sideshows, managed to place the issue of domestic abuse more firmly on the center stage of public discourse. The growing awareness of the seriousness of the domestic abuse problem has resulted in the legal system taking such cases more seriously. In addition to increased incarceration and punishment, many judges have begun referring men who abuse their partners in domestic abuse intervention programs. However, few studies have been made to assess the effectiveness of such programs. Those studies that have been conducted have only drawn weak..."
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The Nursing Profession, 2006.
An analysis of the role of nursing professionals in managing their patients' chronic pain.
2,800 words (approx. 11.2 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 83.95
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This paper studies the nursing profession, focusing on the role of nurses in helping patients to cope with chronic pain. The paper begins with a detailed background about the developing of nursing, including the main theories of health care provision, which are the Caring Model and the Developmental Model. Next, the paper examines patient care in out-patient or family settings. A discussion about healing techniques includes non-traditional methods such as as aromatherapy and informal talk therapy. The paper then presents a 2000 case study of 52 persons with hypertension in four health care units in Erzurum, Turkey in 2000. The patients and their families were visited by nurses once a week for blood pressure measurement for three months. The paper concludes that the Caring Model improved the quality of life of the hypertensive patients who participated in the study by decreasing blood pressure and increasing the quality of life.
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I. Background
II. The Theory in the Out-Patient/Family Setting
III. Case Study
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"It has been commonly viewed that those who choose a nursing career do so out of a desire to care for the sick and the needy (Vance 2003). Caring was the central concept, which gave rise to several caring theories, the two most prominent being the Leininger's Theory of cultural care and Jean Watson's Theory of human caring. Watson stressed that caring is a science, which is characterized by a humanitarian and human science orientation to human caring processes, phenomena and experiences. A caring science deals with being-in-relation and a world view of unity and connectedness of all creation. This transpersonal caring recognizes that unity of life and the connections that weave from the individual to others, the community, the planet and the universe. Inquiries into the caring science are reflective, subjective and interpretative, besides being objective-empirical. They also include ontological, philosophical, ethical, historical inquiries and take the form of multiple epistemological approaches to inquiry, such as clinical and empirical."
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Chronic Respiratory Disorders, 2004.
An analysis of disease management of chronic respiratory disorders.
5,632 words (approx. 22.5 pages), 23 sources, MLA, $ 136.95
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This paper discusses chronic respiratory disorders. The paper examines issues concerning the management of these diseases. The economic benefits for corporations and managed health care are explored. The paper contends that studies have shown time and again that a healthier workforce is a more productive workforce and companies that invest in efficient healthcare plans for their employees generally receive a large return on their investment, notwithstanding the humanitarian implications involved.
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Executive Summary
Background and Overview
Managed Health Care
Incidence of Chronic Respiratory Diseases in the United States
Discussion
Potential Cost Savings from Managed Care Approach
Constraints and Considerations
Conclusions and Recommendations
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"Gatekeeping strategies provided under managed care programs typically include requiring preapproval for services or screening by a primary care physician prior to referral for tests or a specialist visit. In addition, gatekeeping directs patients to certain providers, usually those who have contracted to follow the company's policies and have accepted discounted payments in return for a steady flow of referrals. As the term implies, the gatekeeping function introduces issues that those who need services may be denied them, for instance, based on a strict interpretation of the criteria of "medical necessity." Another constraint is that understaffing or a lack of appropriate credentials among gatekeepers will result in delays in the provision of healthcare assistance or even to adverse decisions about employee healthcare. "Finally, the question of providers' loyalty is raised by the contractual arrangement," Strom-Gottfried ask, "can they fulfill the fiduciary responsibility to their patients while under the management of the payor?" (297)."
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Pain in Treating Patients, 2002.
This paper discusses the role that pain has in treating patients.
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Inadequate pain management can create new problems, including disability, depression, and a diminished quality of life. The AGS guidelines describe the general principles for the management of chronic non-cancer-related pain in older persons and find that these offer specific, practical recommendations for clinicians, some of which may be adapted to treating cancer-related pain.
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An In-Depth Look at Social Programs Across the Country, 2000.
A look at several programs, such as drug and alcohol abuse programs, community dispute programs, and the future of such programs.
4,800 words (approx. 19.2 pages), 9 sources, $ 122.95
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Introduction
Pre- Trial Intervention
Drug Courts
Statutory Diversion
TASC Programs
Mediation Programs
Victim - Offender Mediation Programs
Community Dispute Resolution Programs
Alcohol Detoxification Centers
Manhattan Bowery Corporation
Decriminalization
Future of Diversion Programs
Conclusion
Works Cited Page
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In today?s society it has become necessary for the criminal justice system to attempt to employ mores alternatives to the traditional prosecution of cases. It was from this need that Diversion Programs were born. These programs were set up to benefit both the offender and the criminal justice system.
There are several benefits for offenders that these diversion programs offer. It allows an eligible offender to be quickly evaluated and have intervention proceed. After identified as an eligible offender, personalized help can be offered. Help such as drug and alcohol counseling, medical care and different forms of education. Diversion also lessens the trauma to the offender, from an emotional and economic point of view, due to facing possible criminal prosecution. As a whole, these programs give offenders an opportunity to be diverted out of the criminal justice system and get a second chance to redeem themselves.
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Home Health Care and Hospice, 2002.
This paper examines the topic of the management of chronic pain in home health care and hospice care.
2,442 words (approx. 9.8 pages), 12 sources, MLA, $ 74.95
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There has been a massive shift in thinking about chronic pain and pain management, from seeing pain as a secondary characteristic to the disease, to seeing pain as a primary problem. The writer explores the issue and the surrounding controversy. The paper looks at the ways in which financial cutbacks in home health care and hospice have led to fewer employees and a stronger reliance on pain medication.
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"In an article in the Columbian (Oregon leads quiet revolution, 1999), a graphic example of one of the ongoing problems in the management of chronic pain was illustrated in the story of a man who hurt his back in 1988. Although in chronic pain, his doctors hesitated to provide him with narcotics for long-term pain relief because of the fear of drug addiction. Despite the fact that things are changing, pain management in home health care and hospice has often been shaped more by politics than by scientific knowledge about the effects of pain and its management. Both doctors and patients still exhibit resistance to appropriate pain management, fearing addiction, acting from ignorance, or feeling that patients should simply be more stoic. In the following pages, the intention is to explore this issue in more detail."
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