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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...

Caring Nursing Theory of Jean Watson

that caring is good. Some nurses might object to allowing themselves the luxury because it makes them vulnerable, but in some prof...

Managed Care Research and Ethical Issues

majority group in the United States. When considering other population groups, the disparities are even greater. The purpose her...

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...

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...

Three Business Ethics Questions

simply because the company did not want to lose money by taking the crib off the market. The social costs theory goes a step furt...

Wit & Palliative Care

also a former student of Vivians is now in the rather awkward position of also being one of her doctors, as he is an intern and re...

A Case Study in Professional Responsibility

incomplete, they have not been tested for drugs and the training room that he had counted on using in their orientation is booked ...

Nursing and Kangaroo Care

article, "Mother-Infant Skin-to-Skin Contact (Kangaroo Care)," kangaroo care offers the parents the only opportunity to engage in ...

Persistent Vegetative State Patients and Ethical Decision Making

the balloon, and certain gestures, were definite responses to the environment and evidence of consciousness, but the doctors disag...

Preventive Strategies, Cost Containment, and Managed Care

stability, while the goal of tertiary prevention "is to help the patient return to wellness following treatment" (Torakis and Smig...

Impact of Managed Care

that the government did not intend when establishing Medicare in the 1960s. At present, Medicare virtually rules all of Ame...

Ethics and the Biggest Challenges Confronting Wal Mart

the Economist states the following: "The biggest of these is a class action seeking damages on behalf of 1.6m past and current fem...

Nursing and the Interaction Between Theory, Research, and Practice

authors state that research "and theory are key underpinnings that guide safe, effective, and comprehensive" (p. 35) practice. As...

Mentally Ill Individuals and Medical Insurance

illnesses, for example, often encounters problems in convincing their insurance provider to provide the appropriate reimbursement ...

Patient Dignity and Concept Analysis

need for theory in accomplishing the tasks of direct patient care. There are routines and required protocols to follow, but the p...

Adult Critical Care and Benefits of the Neuman Model

importance in the immediate nature of the patients problems, however. In critical care, theory can wait. Nurses need to be focus...

Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and the Orem Model

Its effect is to reduce the atmosphere of paternalism that has pervaded medicine. Dorothy Orems self care model is particularly a...

'Don't Call Me Sweetie!' Australia Nursing Study Reviewed

In six pages this paper examines nursing care from the perspectives of nurses and patients as reported by this Australian study. ...

Moulton Adult Day Care Business Plan

set her up in an assisted living situation at home or in a seniors community ... Mehls said she is a prime example of the way most...

Case Scenario on Nursing Care

In seven pages this paper presents a case scenario featuring a nursing care situation and possible change of employment environmen...

History and Implications of Medicare's Managed Care

cover the costs of catastrophic illness, but otherwise they maintained their own routine health care. The route of health care ac...

Acute Care Facility and Polypharmacy Responsibility

is properly prescribed and that the patient is aware of any potential difficulties. First, what is polypharmacy and what are its p...

Older Adults Status Assessment

an assessment done on a younger and presumably more healthy person. For example, an older persons greater likelihood toward cardia...

Terminally Ill Love One and Styles of Coping

In light of all the possibilities coping styles as it relates to the nature and scope of the issue are quite diverse....

Koi Pond Maintenance and Care

indicated by another author who states that lack of knowledge about filtration systems, and the poor maintenance of filtration sys...