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An Evaluation of EMTALA

costs ("American Academy of Emergency Management: EMTALA," 2008). In some cases, patients without insurance would be sent to a cou...

Health Beliefs of African Americans

being mentored by an elder; 2) those who received their ability to heal as a divine gift; and 3) those who were born with the abil...

Health Care: Questions On Two Articles

There is no question HMOs are in need of some major improvement efforts. Time and time again, anecdotal accounts of personal ongo...

PATIENT SAFETY AND CONSUMER-DIRECTED HEALTH CARE

had pushed through legislation mandating mandatory medical error reporting (Hosford, 2008). Additionally, and perhaps more importa...

How Regulatory Agencies have Improved Outcomes

(Chen et al, 2003). Accreditation has been identified as a measure of quality, but whether this results in measurable difference...

Evaluation of Usablity.gov

which entices the user to explore further. The target audience for this site is quite broad. As indicated in the introduction to ...

Assessment of Independent Living

she does "light housekeeping," which is also not consistent with someone who needs assistance getting out of bed. However, the stu...

Family Systems Theory

in psychoanalytical theory away from a focus on individual and towards a focus on the whole. While psychoanalysts had previously ...

The Obama and McCain Health Care Reform Plans

remainder in expanded Health Savings Accounts" (Straight talk, 2008). As for the currently uninsured, McCains plan is to work with...

Health Assessment Models and the General Practice Nurse

such as medical history as well as their role in consultation and also in the way that preventative healthcare is delivered, the ...

Smokers and Health Promotion

to smoking for medical care for one year, 1993, was in excess of $50 billion and estimated lost productivity due to smoking-relate...

Baby Powder's Health Hazards

the following: "Keep in mind that many obese patients develop intertrigo, a mild fungal infection within their skinfolds that powd...

Nursing Korean and Russian Patients and Cultural Competence

the KA familys ability to utilize US healthcare systems (Donnelly, 2005). KA parents experience with schizophrenia in their chil...

Community Health and the Nursing Care Theory of Jean Watson

and continues to do so, over the past two decades, as it was first published in 1979 (Falk-Rafael, 2000). In formulating her theor...

Rationing of Health Care and Moral Impacts

paired with a continually expanding population have introduced others. A degradation of the nursing/patient relationship, concern...

Homeless and Health Care

problems "are extremely high among the homeless population" (NCH Fact Sheet #8, 2005). In fact, homeless persons are far more li...

Overview of Sinusitis

whatever substances that have become trapped in it) toward openings known as ostia, which lead to a passageway in the back of the ...

UK Confidentiality and Doctors

a relativity new situation (Porter, 1999). This indicated the need for rules and guidelines on what would and would not be classed...

Work Safety and Health

work on both these areas. There are many models which are used to assess risk, each have different advantages and disadvantages....

Health and Alcohol

social problems associated with poverty and over crowding. In more recent decades the increased use by those under stress, on the ...

Environmental and Public Health Effects from Pulp and Paper Mills

always gold. The benefits the mills represent to Georgians are offset by the deleterious impact they can have on lives and lifewa...

Medicare's Part D and Its Impact

dressed in a hat and white cotton gloves, and her dress has lace-trimmed collar and cuffs with a small bouquet of violets containi...

Exercise and Its Benefits to Health

is suffering from this disease. Treatment for depression can include therapy and mood-elevating drugs, but it can also include ex...

4 Cultural Topics

America, by contrast, embraces a decidedly more individualistic notion of cultural behavior by virtue of its capitalistic existenc...

Disease and Health

of where health concerns and support lie as they look to different perspectives and input factors. The World Health Organisation ...

UK Government Health Strategy Critique

get treatment, this has resulted in these areas of highest public visibility gaining most of the attention which meant the strateg...

Peruvian Americans, Culture and Society

an equilibrium and patients may have difficulty discussing depression openly (OMH, 2005). Another Hispanic health belief is that...

Overview of Metabolic Syndrome

shaped rather than a pear shaped body) has been associated with an increased risk for heart disease" (The metabolic syndrome.) An...

Concepts of Self Care

to the wide-ranging aspect of nursing than merely administering medicine; in fact, the myriad components that ultimately comprise ...

Research Proposal on Safety and Health

health and safety in the work place for the hidden a non specific dangers that may be faced by employees in almost any workplace ...