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Enteric Feeds and Health Organization Policy

How governments accomplish this purpose, of course, varies considerably. In Great Britain, the government via the National Health...

Overview of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award

U.S. government (The Malcolm, 2002). Originally a national award for manufacturing industries, the award was expanded to include h...

President John F. Kennedy's 1963 Community Mental Health Law

a problem that is difficult to define adequately. There is much competition in the health field, and in the mental health field t...

Triage and its Medical and Military History

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...

Health Care and Elasticity of Demand

responsible for most health care expenditures, merely because of their age and the increased need for direct care with advancing a...

Community Health Care Nursing and Child Abuse Interventions

the problem and to eliminate it where possible. Nester (1998) quantifies the extent of the problem relating that an estimated 1,2...

Nursing Liability and Access to Health Care by the Poor in Texas

goes way beyond the paradigm of nursing as simply a "handmaiden" to physicians. The nursing professional is required to know virtu...

Reform and Ethics As They Relate to Nursing Home Care

or state agencies may seek and implement studies. II. Nursing Home Care for the Elderly Whenever nursing home care is an...

Massachusetts' Polices Regarding Care of Mentally Disabled Individuals

them. In common with other regions, Massachusetts is currently looking towards ways in which policies relating to those with menta...

A History of Children In Mental Health Facilities

with them to the first American Colonies, and mostly served as a model as to who would provide what services in the early, fledgli...

Forensic Mental Health Setting and Nursing Care

the same holds true about the theories with which these people are treated. In the United Kingdom, nurses specializing in forensi...

Nurse Role Definition

patients, cleaning patients up, changing the beds for patients, helping patients go to the bathroom, and many other simple, but ne...

Health Promotion Role of Practitioner When Clients Refuse Antipsychotic Medications Because of Side Effects

to body changes due to issues of self-image and acceptance speaks to a very vulnerable group of individuals whose focus is more up...

Analyzing Behavioral Health Care Organizations

of all of these organizations is to help provide quality behavioral health care while containing costs for its members. APS...

Ontario, Canada's Health Care Funding Process

since 1947. The healthcare system is actually run by "its 10 provinces and three territories, but is governed by federal guideline...

Two Scenarios in Medical Ethics

not want his father informed), presenting a rationale for signing a health care proxy becomes extremely problematic. Guidelines us...

Health Care Communication Protocol Enhancement

protection. It seems that the purpose of the old system was typical as the facility needed communications. However, in health care...

Asians and Beliefs on Health

of the true nature of their illnesses. While keeping such facts from the patients may be considered merciful it does, at times, en...

Nurse and the Future of Canadian Health Care

industry and primary care access; homecare access; and the new legislation proposed in regards to the entire health human resource...

Social Classes and Health Care

people who are uninsured, while many more are underinsured (Reports Say Millions Getting Second-Class Health Care Treatment, 2003)...

Health Professional Education and Student Autonomy

professional specialties. Since autonomy is expected within the professional environment, programs which include student autonomy ...

Health Care in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden

The interplay of health issues with social policies is credited as being one of the reasons why the health indices in these countr...

Health Care and Special Interest Groups

government and distort the issues by using unethical practices. Their dealings with government officials are sometimes damaging t...

Health Care and the Culture of Greece

without mentioning their love affair with olive oil, and the esteem which this precious ingredient holds in this culture (Miller, ...

China, the U.S., and Health Care

Most of those insured by third-party payers have had all or part of their healthcare premiums paid by employers. Competitive pres...

Nursing and Health Care Policy

health of the individual and to their success in recuperation. The Association for Spirit at Work is comprised of medical profess...

Inaccessbility to Those Needing California Health Insurance

who were in need of an epidural block in order to anesthetize the severe birth-related pain. Unable to hand over the several hund...

Nursing Scholars, Feminism, and Postmodernism

As a socially committed citizen who addresses health needs of the local, national, and global community, nursing will forever be h...

Health Care Economics and the Impact of Medicare

with advancing age. Care providers cannot set lower fees for uninsured individuals and then penalize the insured and their insure...

“Marketing Is More Than Promotion, and Promotion Is More Than Advertising”

fever and as such this is a product which satisfies a need as well as a desire. The main thrust of the...