Essays 391 - 420
call for compliance with standardized procedures, health codes, and licensing requirements, all of which have been initiated to su...
because they do not have the means to get medical attention (Center for American Progress, 2007). Health care costs seem to rise e...
begins with "orientation," which is a period in which the nurse and the patient become acquainted. The relationship then proceeds ...
agony? Medicine was not always the assembly line it is today. According to Pescosolido and Boyer, there were three events that ch...
(Jennings, 2005). The reason for the huge increases in health care costs is not the insurance companies, Jennings found, but the f...
the rate of such hospital mergers. One of these trends was the "phenomenon of Columbia/HCA," a for-profit hospital system that man...
birth, it is critical to interact with the infant, to touch and cuddle and talk with the infant, to provide a safe and nurturing e...
subject of rationing health care. The authors look at the years 1989 through 1995 and laws which were put in place in Oregon to ad...
be vulnerable to abuse or neglect for a variety of reasons and in a variety of situations, which range from home care to care in r...
who suffer from cancer, arthritis, AIDS, multiple sclerosis or acute back pain are known to frequently turn to alternative medicin...
therefore, highly desirable to have a variety of types of LTC settings. Furthermore, alternatives to institutionalized care can o...
much sugar remains in the blood and too little energy is transferred to other cells. The diabetic needs to take externally adminis...
primarily through government funding supported by tax receipts. Icelands national health care system "receives 85% of its funding...
2000). Even as recently as just a couple of decades ago, conditions such as cramps, pregnancy nausea and even labor pains were oft...
development of nurse-operated continence centers, which provide conservative management for UI (Bernier, 2002). Continence nurses...
All of these studies reflect empirical studies of hospital populations in an effort to determine how changes in the healthcare env...
and certainly health care facilities. In essence, the minimum requirements of nursing dictate that: * the nurse remain cognizant ...
The Clinical Workstation Application of the 3M(tm) Care Innovation Expert Applications system focuses on providing clinicians and ...
a good nurse ... Id spend more time with their families. If I were a good nurse, I would ..." (Williams, 2001; p. 24ac2)....
who are suffering from chronic ailments such as congestive heart failure, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), asthma and...
In four pages a health care provider reviews the Boren Amendment and opines that its demise is in the best interest of health care...
The estimated increase for 1999 is between 7 and 10 percent.4 Of the expenditures in 1997, 33 percent went towards hospital costs,...
In six pages this paper discusses the costs and quality of health care in a consideration of the impact of decentralization in thi...
This formula, at 1994s standards, placed the poverty line at $14,800 for a family of four, no matter if they were in the urban Nor...
In five pages this paper examines increasing health care costs in the U.S. in a consideration of managed care criticisms, provides...
In ten pages this research paper examines the costs of health care at consumer, private, state, and federal levels with a consider...
In nine pages this paper discusses managed care in a consideration of future roles of specialized laboratories as detailed under n...
their cost in the treatment of the condition. Other insurance companies will chose not to insure the individual with the pre-exis...
A seven page paper delineating the factors behind the impetus for better health care products and services. From the 1960s onward...
In eleven pages this paper considers 1995's H.R. 323 with the emphasis upon health care savings and applications to later tax defe...