Essays on Illnesses

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An Overview of Lupus and The Role of Nurse in Its Treatment

3 pages / 1288 words

When we think of diseases, we typically expect to see evidence and symptoms, we expect to see a person that looks sick. When it comes to people with lupus, they don’t always appear to be sick or have anything wrong with them. Which could lead...

Lupus

135

Hypertension in Children: Overview of Healthcare Policy Concern and Solution

3 pages / 1219 words

Hypertension is one of the biggest health concerns in the world now, the rate at which uncontrolled blood pressure is growing is not only evolving among older people but we are seeing high increase in the numbers of children that been diagnosed with hypertension. Projected...

Hypertension

136

Preventing and Controlling Hypertension for Improved Population Health

3 pages / 1407 words

Abstract The role of the nurse in improving hypertension control has expanded over the past 50 years, complementing and supplementing that of the physician. Nurses’ involvement began with measuring and monitoring blood pressure (BP) and patient education and has expanded to become one of the...

Hypertension

137

Investigation of The Link Between Poverty and Hypertension

3 pages / 1508 words

Hypertension is a chronic disease that disproportionately affects those of a lower social economic status (SES) in the United States. There are several contributing factors, or risk factors, that can exacerbate the already biological disposition to the disease. Such risk factors are considered social disparities...

Hypertension

138

Sickle Cell Anemia: a Case Study

6 pages / 2854 words

Case Study A 19-year-old African-American female, hereafter referred to as “AP”, presents to her primary care physician with fatigue, fever, and right upper quadrant (RUQ) abdominal pain for 3 days. AP has a significant medical history of sickle cell anemia (SCA). AP also complains of...

Blood Sickle Cell Anemia

139

Erectile Dysfunction in Men with Sickle Cell Anemia

2 pages / 720 words

Erectile dysfunction is common in post-priapism clients with sickle cell disease. Evidence has shown that sickle cell disease has been linked to several reproductive issues, such as low sperm count and decreased testosterone levels. This can create challenges between the client and nurse. Sickle cell...

Nursing Care Plan Sexual Health Sickle Cell Anemia

140

The Future of Stroke Rehabilitation

3 pages / 1385 words

Introduction A stroke is a neurological condition where the blood supply to the brain is disrupted with on following cell death as a result. Strokes can be divided into ischemic strokes and hemorrhagic strokes. Depending on the affected area, the symptoms of a stroke and...

Patient Stroke Therapy

141

Treating Diseases with Sports and Exercise: a Report About Endurance Training for Stroke Patients

5 pages / 2296 words

Introduction The knowledge about the effectiveness of interventions for stroke patients, which improve the physical fitness is very little. According to Hoeß, Schupp, Schmidt and Gräßel (2008) standard guidelines for rehabilitation of stroke patients don’t exist in Germany. Generally accepted information about content, duration and...

Fitness Physical Exercise Stroke

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Symptoms and Causes of Stroke in Children

2 pages / 962 words

Every year, 1,000 kids and infants suffer a stroke. The rarity of medical specialty stroke mostly explains the very fact that it’s unknown. If strokes are primarily in adults (this is that the third reason for death when cancer and infarction in folks over 18),...

Stroke

143

An Overview of Cystic Fibrosis

2 pages / 954 words

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a genetic, recessive disorder which affects the lungs and the liver. CF develops when there is a mutation in the gene because it’s autosomal recessive it means you would have inherited two copies of the CFTR gene, one from each parent....

Cystic Fibrosis Respiratory System

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Medical Marijuana as an Option for Sickle Cell Anemia

3 pages / 1216 words

“Sickle cell anemia does not bind me, it drives me. It covers with hurt allowing you to see and taste the freedom of health and when you least expect it makes you beg to be normal. I am its keeper and though it hurts to...

Medical Marijuana Patient Sickle Cell Anemia

145

The Theme of Death in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Masque of The Red Death

1 page / 541 words

Death is something that everyone agonizes every day. Edgar Allan Poe emphasizes how death is inevitable in his short story, The Masque of the Red Death. The main character, Prince Prospero, a misleading, deceitful ruler pretends to help his country as his people are dying...

Death Edgar Allan Poe The Masque of The Red Death

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The Stages of Death in The Movie The Bucket List

1 page / 624 words

The movie The Bucket List by Justin Zackham written in 2007 is a movie that demonstrates the 5 stages of dying. The five stages of death denial,anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. The movie plays two terminally ill men, Carter Chambers and Edward Cole. They hope...

Death Film Analysis

147

Experiences with Death and Grief in My Life

3 pages / 1478 words

My experiences with death and grief have been many involving pets, family members, friends, classmates and members of my school and faith communities. The grief I experienced differed depending on the relationship I had with the person who died and the circumstances surrounding their death....

Death Grief Personal Experience

148

Motherhood as a Way to Control Women

5 pages / 2275 words

As a result of the legislation that sparked controversy over issues such as abortion and female bodily autonomy, female agency and motherhood takes stage front and center. From critiques of canonical thinkers, to scientifically conducted research and beyond, it is clear that there are explicit...

Motherhood Pregnancy Women’s Rights

149

The Relationship Between Different Exposures of Pain Stimuli and Development of Pain Tolerance

9 pages / 3998 words

Abstract Pain is a physiological response that our body uses to alarm us of any dangerous stimuli, but it has been found that pain goes beyond just a physiological response. Studies have provided inconclusive findings on the environmental factors at play in the development of...

Pain Sense

150

How I Lost My Sister

2 pages / 775 words

The summer of 2017, during the month of July was very tragic for me and my family. This event was probably the saddest thing that has happened to me in a very long time. July 15, 2017 I was headed to Dallas, Texas for a...

Death

151

Pro-choice Abortion Only in The First Trimester

4 pages / 1940 words

Abortion, a topic continuously being mentioned in almost all political arguments but, abortion should not be up for debate, but for women to decide the fate of their unborn child. Abortion is the process which a fetus or “unborn child”, is terminated from the mother’s...

Abortion Pregnancy Pro Life (Abortion)

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Research Paper on The Impact of Teenage Pregnancy on an Individual's Ability to Succeed Financially and Academically

3 pages / 729 words

Teenage pregnancy is a significant social issue in the United States, with approximately one million teenage girls giving birth each year, as reported by Rose Welton in “The Social Impact on Being a Teen Mom.” The implications of early parenthood are complex, influencing various aspects...

Pregnancy Teenage Pregnancy