Medicine
Essays

Medical Imaging Technology in an information driven world

The unstable economy might cause a recent college graduate to throw up his or her hands in despair at the idea of planning for the next five months in today's economic environment, much less his or her professional…

The topic of health care rationing has been the subject of debate in the U.S. The last few years as government expenditures on health care have far exceeded budgeted levels. Central to the concern is the ethical issue…

This paper examines several references and abstracts related to a problem of practice in the field of nursing. The selected problem to research entails an exploration of what constitutes an expert level of nursing, and how the criteria for expertise varies across countries and cultures. The concept of intuition in clinical practice is re-visited.

This paper consists of a series of four separate discussion responses on different topics pertaining to modern nursing and nursing education. The first two discussion responses debate the issue of accrediting nursing schools; the second discussion response discusses how Maslow's hierarchy of needs and other non-nursing theories can be useful for nurses.

The duties and responsibilities of a pharmacist in the U.S. are hugely important to patients who are prescribed medications by their doctors. But is the average salary for a pharmacist ($116,000) sufficient to compensate a pharmacist? This paper takes the position that a pharmacist is earning sufficient amounts of money for the work and professionalism involved. The paper looks at the issue through microeconomics, macroeconomics, and pharmacoeconomics as well.

This study uses a five-chapter format to describe the field of Christian counseling, including a definition and overarching goals. A review of the relevant literature provides the background for a review and summary of Gary R. Collins' text, Christian Counseling: A Comprehensive Guide (2007). A chapter by chapter summary of this text is provided in the data analysis chapter.

Infectious Disease and Nursing Interventions:

When it comes to the harnessing of unstructured data in radiology, it is very important to consider how much value that data will provide. In many cases, there is information in that data that can be valuable to the case and the patient, but only if the data is located and used correctly. Using Natural Language Processing (NLP) can help collect and process unstructured data from radiology reports, but there are difficulties with the accuracy of NLP in many cases, and that poses a big concern from a patient safety standpoint.

This order is an annotated bibliography within the medical field. It reviews ten scholarly journal sources from within the past ten years. The topics of these journals all relate to barriers in patient knowledge within the primary care setting. Many of the reports are studies conducted by professionals in the field. Others are survey reviews of previous studies and literature.