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Essays 1951 - 1980

US System of Foster Care

protection laws first came into the foster care and legal system in 1874 when it was found that Mary Ellen, a child ward of the st...

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Comforters

140 squares and 48 squares of each color. The comforter that is homemade can then be stuffed with 16-weight organic cotton and ti...

Consideration of Moral Conflict

family is suddenly circumscribed and rests solely with the surviving brother. This changes the balance of the moral equation. Wh...

Caring in Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit

care, only tolerate: "She stood at the gate, waiting; behind her the swamp, in front of her Colored town, beyond it, all Maxwell. ...

Primary Care Access Difficulties

NA). They can be further broken down into the following groupings: "40% lack health insurance coverage; 34% rely on Medicaid for c...

Overview of Education Needs Assessment

are met and followed. Beyond these duties are the operational and administrative duties required in this type of facility. ...

Trustees' Role and 2000's Trustee Act

we may make a comparison with a contract. With the definition of a contract we see that there is no such thing as a contract where...

Carol Gilligan's In a Different Voice

Gilligan summarizes this by saying that male morality has a "justice orientation", and that female morality has a "responsibility ...

Infections of the Urinary Tract

This is significant to nursing because nurses have to learn to insert and remove the catheter from the patient which is sometimes ...

Chronically Ill Patients, Disabled Veterans, and Depression

In nine pages depression as it affects the chronically ill and disabled veteran portions of the population is discussed in terms o...

Marketing and Competition Within The Managed Care Industry

This paper examines how economic issues such as supply and demand, consumerism, and competition affect marketing strategies for th...

Nursing Interventions and Case Study on Guillain Barre Syndrome

In ten pages this case study of an individual who after a gastrointestinal infection contracted GBS is presented along with a case...

Daycare and Worker Burnout Study

impact burnout ultimately plays in terms of the children exposed to their caregivers condition of stress and/or burn-out. T...

Education as Viewed by Alfred the Great

a merely incidental afterthought of a wise kings domestic policy, but rather it was central to his over purpose--"as much a part o...

Carative Nursing Model and Nurses' Image

In five pages this paper examines the images of nursing and nurses within the context of the Carative model with individualized, d...

Overview of Preterm Labor Treatment and the Role of an OB Nurse

at high risk for preterm labor would have the effect of reducing preterm labor rates; this has not been the case. Studies in Franc...

Summary and Analysis of the Film Daddy Day Care

care center. The woman who runs this other day care center tries to foil all efforts of Charlie and his buddies. But, as would be ...

Pain Management for the Elderly

has been estimated that between 49 and 83 percent of all elderly adults experience pain on a regular basis (Briggs, 2003). Desbi...

Questions on Managed Care Answered

the processes of care and generally utilizes claims data in order to discern rates of service delivery that are, in turn, linked t...

MEDITECH Hospital Information System

or reject MEDITECHs suggestions as they see fit. Whether users accept or reject the suggestions made by MEDITECH, care prov...

An Article on Families in the ER Critiqued

and fear and engenders feelings of support and help for the patient " (MacLean, et al, 2003). In regards to negative outcomes, fam...

Australia Focus on Breast Cancer

carcinoma in situ (DCIS). This is also known as "intraductal carcinoma or non-invasive breast cancer" (Breast Cancer, 2004; p. PG...

Nursing Self Care Deficit Theory of Dorothea Orem

operations of nursing" (Horan, Doran and Timmins, 2004, p. 30). This is broken down into three basic categories: 1) wholly compen...

Long Term Care Policy Change Memorandum

to help change laws or create new ones. For this reason, AARP serves a positive purpose, inasmuch as there are not enough citizen...

Providing Comfort in the Emergency Room

charted component of my daily patient interaction. However, to remind myself of the other responsibilities during busy per...

Acute Care Facilities and HIPAA

leaving one job for another has created are entrenched in insurance underwriting. Many people with pre-existing conditions are fea...

Children and Legal Responsibilities

for decision making (Lexis, 2004). This approach also reflects the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (Cretney , 1998). Ho...

Prospective Payment System and Diagnosis Related Groups

In five pages the increasing costs of U.S. medical care is the focus of this paper that discusses diagnosis related groups and a p...

Role of Duties in the Burnout Problem of Nurses

job experience, type A behavior patterns, and fear of negative evaluation, combined with frequency of stressful events" (Dugan et ...

Patient Care Ethics and Nursing Management

In eight pages this paper discusses nursing management shortage in a consideration of patient care ethics. Six sources are cited ...