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

scientific investigation and treatment of trauma and/or death of victims of abuse, violence, criminal activity, and traumatic acci...

at regular prices, but interest increases when the store drops the price from $50 to $5. In other words, demand increases when pr...

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

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

workers rights are in as much a quagmire as womens rights. So what is the solution? Identifying that poverty is one of the underl...

has slowly been creeping into Canadian health care as private expenses such as prescription drugs and homecare continue to cost Ca...

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

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

process is made more difficult by cultural and linguistic barriers (Murty, 2002). These women frequently bear the brunt of fulfill...

issues along a continuum of health and good health is defined as a "state of complete physical, mental and social well-being" (Ada...

its critics -- has been a goal of the U.S. government for many, many years and, for the most part, has had the support of most of ...

providers fees be "normal and customary," and those care providers who have attempted to set lower fees for those without any safe...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

Security system and others had begun to focus on the idea of a program aimed at insuring Social Security beneficiaries" (Anonymous...

characteristics of the group, interpersonal relationships within the group and the characteristics of the culture. The leader must...

at least not accessing the system as much as they could. For example, it was reported in BMJ that a telephone healthcare service o...

Hence, one sees in this example that patients and physicians demand the newest and latest technologies but many insurance companie...

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

sense that it is actively intended to cause harm, but negligence occurs when it is established that any reasonable person would ha...

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

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

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

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

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