Essays

The family income affects a family’s standard of living. It allows the family to provide for their necessities and other things that the family may want to achieve optimum quality of life. However, not all families enjoy sufficient income. Lack …

My decision to be in family physician began after my father suffered from drug induced gastritis. He was hospitalized for several days, each day he lay on his bed, our family never left his bedside. Apparently the doctor in charge …

Nurse practitioner, though it remains a controversial concept, has been identified as a legitimate profession that provides health services worldwide (American Nurses Association 1993; NSW Department of Health 1993). The emergence of advanced practice nurses (APNs) was due to the …

In Canada, the nurse practitioner role was well established as early as 1972. Patients were receiving first-contact primary clinical care from nurse practitioners as safe, effective and satisfactory as from family physicians (Spitzer et al. , 1974, p. 255). Canadian …

The project would lead to the creation of effective means of delivering quality health services by shifting from service driven to consumer driven practices; improving the traditional roles of nurses; transforming doctors and patients; recognizing patients’ rights for personal choices …

Pursuing my career in medicine is just the first step in my plan. I would like to have the opportunity to take a bigger role in making the world a better place to live. My main philosophy in life is …

Family Systems is a one of a branch in psychotherapy which sprang from Cybernetic theories in its popularity during the sixties. Before the formal conception of this particular branch of psychotherapy, the therapies focused more on the individual and not …

Religion does play a major role in one’s background as this is also a factor and a major marker of an individuals’ general behavior; roles and responsibility; and communication style. Most of the older generations are devout with their beliefs …

The case of Sharon and her four children signifies that depression is affecting the entire family. It is thus important that the entire family undergo counseling for depression in order to save the family. As for the mother, Sharon, both …

This paper addresses research done on the affects of probiotics on childhood constipation. The research was a pilot study to determine if further research should be done in the area and its findings were significant to showing positive affects between …