Medicare Benefits for Hospice Care -- Developing a Research Study
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This 7 page report discusses developing a research study that addresses the differences between utilization rates of hospice services before and after Congress passed the Medicare Hospice Benefit in 1982 and then the subsequent accreditation of hospice service providers. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Medicinal Herbs and Dentistry: Potential Complications
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A 5 page overview of the potential medicinal value of herbs. This paper emphasizes that benefit can be overshadowed by negative impacts when these drugs are combined with others or taken in high concentration such as in herbal tea. The author provides brief notes on aloe, echinacea, feverfew, garlic, ginger, gingko biloba, ginseng, goldenseal, and Saint John’s Wort. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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Meditation -- Practices, Applications, Benefits, and Effectiveness
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This 14 page report discusses meditation. Virtually all of the world’s religious traditions incorporate some form of meditative practice. Whether it is in the form of prayer, contemplation, or conscious meditation, it serves as a process that assists in clarity and understanding as well as a greater connection to spiritual awareness. The spiritual leaders of religions which have not defined meditation as such have come to understand its value for its ability to help a person in centering, concentration, and calming. Meditation is an age-old practice, an end in itself or path toward spiritual benefits for may who practice it, as well as a way to divorce the mind from the problems of daily life. Bibliography lists 16 sources.
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Meditation Benefits
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A 3 page research paper discussing the benefits of various meditative practices, including T'ai Chi, Shamanic Journeying, channeling, and creative visualization. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: Meditben.wps

Narrative and Experential Therapies.
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(8pp)Therapy involving families or individuals is seldom easy or singular in nature. This paper examines the similarities and differences of experiential and narrative therapies, through the applicable work of Virginia Satir and Michael White. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Non- pharmacological Treatment for Aggression in Dementia Patients
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This 5 page paper considers the way in which aggression and agitation may be treated in patients suffering from dementia. The paper includes behaviour management and the consideration of environmental factors as well as staff training. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
Filename: TEdement.wps

Nutritional Supplements And Attention Deficit Disorder
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9 pages in length. The frustration that stems from Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) often has parents reaching for the fastest acting remedy: Ritalin. Sustained use of this drug, however, has given rise to myriad concerns related to threats upon the child's overall health and well being such as cancer. As a means by which to address these growing concerns, parents and medical practitioners have been fervently studying the beneficial impact that nutritional supplements have upon children with ADD. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
Filename: TLCNSADD.rtf

Osteopathic Knowledge in Exercise and Rehabilitation
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This 10 page report discusses osteopathic thinking as related to abdominal conditioning to aid in the back support and the lessening of chronic back pain. Exercises and the muscles they target are considered and presented in a way that can be shaped into an individual program for osteopathic patients. The abdominal strengthening muscle exercises can serve as a valuable example of the ways in which health depends on the maintenance of proper relationships among the various parts of the body, an essential aspect of osteopathic medicine. Bibliography lists 20 sources.
Filename: BWosteo.rtf

Pain Management Strategy For Nurses
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This 11 page paper presents the problem of pain management for the elderly and suggests a strategy of intervention based on alternative techniques such as massage, meditation, guided imagery and others. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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Patient/Medical Personnel Interaction After Miscarriage: Preventing Emotional Trauma From Innocent Comments From Inadequately Informed Medical Personnel
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A 16 page discussion of the measures which can be implemented to ensure that patients suffering from miscarriages, or the threat of miscarriage, are not further emotionally impacted from innocent statements about their pregnancy from inadequately informed medical personnel. Reviews nursing theory which would be useful in developing policies to prevent such incidents from happening. Suggests that nurses provide the most hope in terms of such policy development. Nurses have the capability to provide critical input and to voice need. Nurses are in effect mechanisms for change. They not only have this ability, however, they have the ethical responsibility. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
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