The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on the lives of all people around the globe, transforming the way they work, learn, spend their free time, communicate with friends, eat, and exercise. The article by Kathryn Wortley (2020) addresses the subject of eating disorders and mental health problems caused...
Depression is an important risk factor, which can impede recuperation from any disease. This is especially true of patients struggling with breast cancer. This disease is one of the highest causes of death of women (Antoni et al., 2016). It is no surprise that so many patients experience anxiety. It...
Implementation of a new framework into the healthcare system has always been a challenging endeavor considering the variety of aspects that should be considered prior to the process and after its direct incorporation. When speaking of the SDLC system (Systems Development Life Cycle) in the context of the implementation of...
Physical assessment of patients is a complex and challenging endeavor for a nurse because every patient is a separate individual with personal health records and attitude to health care. For this reason, it is practically impossible to outline a unified approach to the patient’s examination. However, as far as a...
Once viewed as a fiction of the most bizarre sci-fi movie, the prolongation of life by the use of new and emerging medical technology is now a reality in 21st-century modern medical science. Today, more than ever before, the timing of a personâs death can be manipulated and controlled by...
Promotion of sexual health among youth is a matter of utmost importance, as the future of the humanity depends on young people and their reproduction health. Management of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) occupies a significant place in educating the target population about positive health habits....
Despite living in the era of globalization and the highly industrialized world, the issue of undernutrition continues to exist. In this case, in the article What Works? Interventions for Maternal and Child Undernutrition and Survival, Bhutta et al. (2008) emphasize the paramount importance of this problem while claiming its high...
Introduction It is necessary to note that a broad range of data analysis methods has been developed over the years, and some of the methods are especially effective when it comes to health care. The role of new technologies has been increasing in the industry, and they can be utilized...
The article âConceptualizing the Performance of Nursing Care as a Prerequisite for better Measurement: A Systematic and Interpretive Reviewâ by Dubois, DâAmour, Pomey, Girard, and Brault (2013) is both a non-experimental and correlational research study since it uses a theoretical-based framework to derive relationships that exist between different variables that...
Introduction Childhood obesity is steadily rising and is affecting the lives of many individuals in the United States. This issue has not only led to the increase of multiple-serious obesity-related comorbidities but also placed a strain on the healthcare system. According to the World Health Organization (2018), the incidence of...
Background Passive lag raise (PLR) is a simulation of a fluid challenge crucial for stroke management (Si et al., 2016). However, it is often underrated (Monnet & Teboul, 2015). There is currently no uniform standard for using PLR (Lam, Lau, Lam, & Yan, 2017). PLR will ostensibly help avoid fluid...
Introduction The primary purpose of this review is to come up with approximations of diagnostics test accuracy, and hence compare troponin T with troponin I. Patients with suspected acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and acute chest pain have recently been evaluated using methods such as myocardial bound (CK-MB) or creatine kinase...
Introduction The role of nursing in the rapidly developing “patient-practitioner” paradigm has now been gaining considerably more power and responsibility if compared to the past decades. Thus, the question of establishing proper frameworks for nursing has become more relevant, drawing the attention of medical researchers worldwide. The overall scope of...
Introduction to the Community Darby Townshipâs (DT) history dates back to 1683 (Township of Darby, 2016, para. 1). One of the peculiar things about modern DT is that it is geographically divided into two parts (see fig. 1), the communities of which have been developing differently (Township of Darby, 2016,...
It is apparent that the problem of abusive relationships, interfering with the issue of domestic violence, is a widespread problem, which is of high concerns in the contemporary public health. It is also apparent that the people who survived abusive relationships are in need for special treatment; however, little is...
Depressive Disorders Explanation and Example Depressive disorders describe a heterogeneous group of eight chronic, recurrent mental conditions characterized by depressed mood, distorted thinking and behavior, and impaired physical health (Fekadu, Shibeshi, & Engidawork, 2017). Depression is a unipolar mood disorder, where the patient suffers from depressive episodes but not mania....
Study Design This project will utilize a quasi-experimental study due to its nature, which is to promote health. Hence, it is impossible to exclude certain individuals from the study based on varied behavioral patterns. Trochim (2006) has articulately indicated the types of quasi-experimental designs and in reference to this studyâs...
The article under analysis published in 2020 is written by Shieva Nur Azizah Ahmad, Cicih Ayu Yulianti, and Roswita Hasan. The article is concerned with the relationship between Watsonâs theory and patient satisfaction. Ahmad et al. (2020) concentrate on the link between one of the ten carative factors, namely helping-trust...
Abstract The growing demand for long-term care (LTC) due to demographic pressures related to a fast-ageing baby-Boomer generation has increased focus on funding schemes. The research aimed to explore the pros and cons of LTC financing options, programs, or plans based on the views of family caregivers. The specific objectives...
Introduction It is apparent that there are numerous ongoing trends in the area of mental health problems in the United States. However, according to the article by Ryan, the country is experiencing the âopioid crisisâ in recent years, with the incidents rates significantly increasing in 2018 (1). According to the...
Mental Health Problem Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is an illness which is âcharacterised by chronic and persistent worryâ (Stein and Sareen, 2015, p.2059). The origins of worrying behaviour can come from different sources and show themselves in a variety of ways. For example, multifocal worrying about such topics as money,...
Nursing Theory The current paper focuses on the possible solutions for the problem of nursing understaffing. To investigate this issue, the author employs several nursing theories, including the environmental theory, the theory of interpersonal relations, and, to a lesser degree, transitions theory. The first-mentioned environmental theory was developed by Florence...
Currently, there are numerous undeniable facts about America’s food supply. Notably, food is cheaper and plenty than decades ago. Again, groceries and supermarkets are now stocked with a large variety of foods. Besides, people are opting for fast foods instead of family meals. As a result, the health of people...
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has escalated international tension between rich and poor economies. The news of vaccinesâ development has propelled developed countries to buy these substances as much as possible. Hoping to gather the amount that is enough to cover their populations, rich nations have left the developing and emerging...