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Economics in Healthcare; Increasing Inputs and Cost Benefit Analysis

is the way money is allocated, as well as private insurance there are sources of funds from social welfare schemes such as Medicai...

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Data

Post-traumatic stress disorder or what is more commonly referred to as PTSD has only been diagnosed using these terms since the la...

Gay Men Adjusting To HIV Treatment

sparse for the HIV-positive gay man beyond that of the homosexual community, however, Serovich et al (2006) point out how the choi...

Personal Philosophy of Nursing

individual is an "open system," which includes "distinct, but integrated physiological, psychological and socio-cultural systems" ...

Negligence Or Malpractice?

results from the diagnostic test; as such, the case definitely leans toward malpractice. Two glaring points that support this cha...

Security Training Program

Great Healthcare Medical Center will be trained in all aspects of every security need of the hospital. This will focus on physica...

Medical Coding and Billing

considered the field as a whole, and shown that it is a growing profession with significant job possibilities, the student should ...

Should The United States Legalize Medical Marijuana Use?

of such states as Montana (Anonymous, 2005), Rhode Island (Roman, 2006) as well as Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Ne...

U.S. Health System

U.S. healthcare system is dangerous and lethal. That is a fact already confirmed by the data cited from Cortese and Smoldt (2005)....

Informed Consent and Honoring Directives

Accepted practice is to use any routine tool available, which means that a patient whose kidneys have ceased to function will be p...

Medical Use of Marijuana Should Be Legalized

the listeners understanding of the fact that fever is a typical sign of infection, though obviously its not the only one; nor is i...

Medical Malpractice Statute Of Limitation

for a defined period of time" (Morgan, 2006). The 7 year time period applies when a case could not be discovered because of fraud ...

A Sociological Look at Epilepsy

other words, the symptoms are treatable, but it is sometimes difficult to cope with the stigma and how people look at someone affl...

Taking Video Games to China

two or three weeks, so that they will get hooked" (Srinivasan, 2005). Indian programmers are indeed being "hooked" and the compan...

Nursing Perspective on the Issue of Living Organ Donation

however, Jones requested an ethics consult on the case due to the fact that Johns psychosocial evaluation had caused Jones to have...

Computerized Health Records in the Military and an Annotated Bibliography

are being planned and how the system is already being extensively used. This allows medical personnel to spend more time on care d...

An Application to a University's School of Allied Health Professions

coding specialist - is accounted for differently than that of direct labor, and there is no employer arrangement whereby the physi...

American Medical Policies and Black Americans

rapid rate in the African-American community. Even with the growing number of new cases of HIV, some African Americans are still r...

Whole Foods or Vitamin Supplements in Treating Hepatitis B

of vitamin supplements results in the extraction of vitamins and the loss of enzymes or coenzymes that exist in foods naturally. ...

U.S. and Japan Health Care

(Wise, 2005). One of the major health issues in the U.S. and other Western countries is obesity (Wise, 2005). It is estimated tha...

Proper Disposal of 'Sharps'

concerning the safe disposal of sharps (Diabetes Monitor, 2006). Many healthcare facilities, particularly those serving diabetic p...

Med-Surge Nursing

nurse working on a medical unit at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center. According to Kodet, the only thing ...

Community Project: Self-Care For OCD

at some point throughout their lives, with three to five million Americans of both genders and all race/socioeconomic background o...

Tools Of The Trade: Hypodermic Needles, Stethoscopes And Thermometer

served to improve the manner by which physicians can detect issues with the heart that previous equipment was unable to do, not th...

Should Churches Be Taxed - Should The Government Fund Medical Research

and they need to continue to fund the studies that need to be done today. The benefits are vast. As we can conclude from past res...

The Holocaust and the Role of the Medical Community

need for eugenics based on the application of racial segmentation and views of humans considered biological inferior by the medica...

Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993

to benefits while they are on their absence of leave (Wikipedia, 2006). "Generally, the Act ensures that all workers are able to t...

Nursing as an Integral Part of the VA Medical Center at Asheville

(Waller, 2006). Not only is customer satisfaction rated higher than it is on a general scale, the death rate is somewhat lower as ...

Medical Jargon as a Communication Barrier

Bagley looks at the problem as rather simplistic and uses the example that it is just as easy to say that word kidney as it is to ...

Transformational Leadership and Change

others being inspirational leadership, intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration (Bryant, 2003). As this suggests...