Essays 661 - 690
to body changes due to issues of self-image and acceptance speaks to a very vulnerable group of individuals whose focus is more up...
industry and primary care access; homecare access; and the new legislation proposed in regards to the entire health human resource...
people who are uninsured, while many more are underinsured (Reports Say Millions Getting Second-Class Health Care Treatment, 2003)...
The interplay of health issues with social policies is credited as being one of the reasons why the health indices in these countr...
professional specialties. Since autonomy is expected within the professional environment, programs which include student autonomy ...
who were in need of an epidural block in order to anesthetize the severe birth-related pain. Unable to hand over the several hund...
As a socially committed citizen who addresses health needs of the local, national, and global community, nursing will forever be h...
sense that it is actively intended to cause harm, but negligence occurs when it is established that any reasonable person would ha...
with advancing age. Care providers cannot set lower fees for uninsured individuals and then penalize the insured and their insure...
had out-earned Intel. Intels response has been to lower prices on its PC chips (Edwards, 2006); additional revenue from other sou...
right to live if it is possible, one could well argue that it is never anyones duty to die. Battins essay, however, speaks of th...
have to lose their home over medical bills. Of course, a representative from the insurance industry was there and did explain that...
and they want guidance to improve their conditions and diseases Canton (2007) reminds the reader that technology has changed eve...
systems." The author explains that ISO 9000 can help institutional health care providers who must comply with the standards establ...
a company rather than career corrections officers, they are underpaid, demoralized, and the turnover is high (Friedmann, 1999). Pr...
influences can be broken down into political, economic, social and technological. Political influences are one of the most importa...
be grateful to their employer for the benefit and also, might want to stay at least until they complete their schooling. Of course...
conditions may worsen and require treatment which will be more costly for the state or healthcare provider. This is unlikely to ha...
its critics -- has been a goal of the U.S. government for many, many years and, for the most part, has had the support of most of ...
goes way beyond the paradigm of nursing as simply a "handmaiden" to physicians. The nursing professional is required to know virtu...
back for treatment and who would be left behind and not treated. In the 1800s, unless a patient was dying those in the emergency r...
process is made more difficult by cultural and linguistic barriers (Murty, 2002). These women frequently bear the brunt of fulfill...
responsible for most health care expenditures, merely because of their age and the increased need for direct care with advancing a...
the problem and to eliminate it where possible. Nester (1998) quantifies the extent of the problem relating that an estimated 1,2...
U.S. government (The Malcolm, 2002). Originally a national award for manufacturing industries, the award was expanded to include h...
How governments accomplish this purpose, of course, varies considerably. In Great Britain, the government via the National Health...
providers fees be "normal and customary," and those care providers who have attempted to set lower fees for those without any safe...
a problem that is difficult to define adequately. There is much competition in the health field, and in the mental health field t...
government and distort the issues by using unethical practices. Their dealings with government officials are sometimes damaging t...
at least not accessing the system as much as they could. For example, it was reported in BMJ that a telephone healthcare service o...