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Health Care Proxy for New York

In five pages this paper discusses New York's health care proxy regarding the wishes of incompetent patients passed in light of t...

Nursing Documentation Bargaining Guidelines

In a research paper consisting of eight pages the importance of negotiating skills within the health care industry is examined. S...

Advanced Nursing Practice and Family Theory: Lessons From the Movie “Thirteen”

begins using drugs, stealing, experimenting with sex, and seeking out more radical means of self mutilation. Each of these change...

Process of Helping

do alone" (p. 1). Keith-Lucas differentiates between what the helper does, which is an action, and to what use the person being he...

Controlled Study of Gastrooesophageal Reflux Disease in Children and Oral Health

is clear that the issue, as Linnet et al state, merits further investigation. Lazarchik and Filler (1997) point out that dental er...

The Importance of Forensic Nursing

departments (Courson, 2004). It isnt that nurses have not been serving in these roles, they have but today, nurses receive speci...

DIABETES AND COST INCREASES

the rise, more people are needing the drug therapies to help with controlling the disease (Buono, 2008). Its estimated that diabet...

Alcohol Abuse and Public Health

(Time for coordinated action on alcohol, 2004). It is particularly dangerous to young people, who are more likely than anyone else...

Rehabilitation and Acute Stroke Units

ensuring that a significant proportion of stroke victims survive and retain their independence. This is important not only from th...

Behavioral Health and Accountability Revisions of the Hartley and Medley Cases

viable solution to the new approach was creating group homes where several developmentally disabled or mentally retarded could liv...

USING A SWOT ANALYSIS TO DEVELOP NEW SERVICE OR HEALTH CARE PROGRAM

a machine, as it were, even if the machine is connected to a health-care professional on the other end. Along those lines,...

Major Issues in Obesity

at least 30 kg/m2" (Allison et al, 1999, p. 1530). It was found that approximately 22% of adult Americans, about 40.5 million pers...

Six Issues in Public Health

way through a crowd of smokers as they enter or leave the building (Smoke-free one year later, 2008). Smoking is a recognized caus...

Marketing and Health Care

with more knowledge than they may have had in the past. On the other hand, as they say, too much knowledge can be dangerous. Physi...

The Positive and Negative Effects of Using Cloning to Treat Genetic Disease

Switching around an embryos mitochondria might appear innocent enough but we must realize that mitochondrial genes act well outsid...

Reforming Health Care

the fact that Americans demand extraordinary health care but refuse to pay for it; that medical science is now able to extend life...

Social Work in Managed Care

figure would increase greatly in coming years (Cohen, 2003). There are twelve basic areas of social work practice, with each ar...

Comparative Analysis of Health Care Systems in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States

Medicare/Medicaid faces an increasing number of recipients and a decreasing number of contributors. Alonso-Zaldivar (2005, pg A14...

Patient Scenario on Stroke Examination

affect patient outcomes (Finley, 2004). The degree to which Mr. Smith will be affected by the stroke, and, indeed, his very survi...

Basic Nursing Metaparadigm

In four pages this research paper examines nursing's metaparadigm in a consideration of concepts including nursing, health, enviro...

Health Care Management Effectiveness

can easily lead to misunderstandings and even conflict. Delegation is a skill many new managers lack. There are many reasons mana...

Increasing Spending to Hold Down Costs

decrease costs, which seems to be counter to increasing spending. Increasing spending on diabetic screening and testing, however,...

Human Resource Managers' Activities

on. However, the "core roles" of HRM which McNamara lists are primarily concerned with the workplace, including as they do o...

Human Becoming Nursing Theory of Parse

moment to moment as the changing patterns of shifting perspectives weave the fabric of life through the human-universe interconnec...

Children with Disabilities and a Health Promotion Program

of developing healthy habits in children with the expectation that these habits will continue throughout life (2003). The high rat...

Social Work and a Career in Public Health

to cope with chronic, acute or terminal illness, such as Alzheimers disease, cancer or AIDS" (U.S. Department of Labor). In additi...

Health Care Pharmacists and How They Have Evolved

been favorable to increased privileges for pharmacists. This trend towards increased privileges are certainly understandable give...

Nursing and Statistics

which both of those impacts are important. The question of what statistics should be collected in a medical facility, however, is...

Human Behavior, Psychological, Sociological, and Biological FActors on Mental Health Care Delivery

promote recovery and to "replace unnecessary institutional care with efficient, effective community service that people can count ...

Roy Adaptation Model, Hospice Care, and Application of Zen Philosophy

In this way, Buddhism became accessible to all, and was able to develop the concept of community which...