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positive patient response. The authors contended that tight control of blood glucose reduces the risk of microvascular and macrov...

of literature about biomedical ethics relative to patient autonomy. This type of autonomy is limited, at best, with managed health...

necessary health-related behaviors" required for meeting "ones therapeutic self-care demand (needs)" (Hurst, et al 2005, p. 11). U...

As stated, the pet food industry already generates more than $53 billion in sales; accessories and nonessential services (i.e., ex...

healthcare services to senior citizens, which is an at-risk population in this country. One helping approach for people with dis...

Foundation, 2006). In 2003, at least US$700 million was spent by Americans purchasing drugs from Canadian pharmacies (Kaiser Famil...

knowledge safely and appropriately" (p. 17). Morath (2003) went so far as to state clearly that the U.S. healthcare system is dang...

change and its rationale (which was based on the results of empirical research), implemented the change and then "supported the c...

now our nations elderly have depended on Medicare/Medicaid for their medical needs. The Medicare/Medicaid system upon which these...

quality of care is approached, while at the same time find ways to reduce costs. It has also been noted that socialized health ca...

meals to all Orthodox Jewish patients should be investigated by hospital administrators if they are not already in place. Furtherm...

situation. As a provider of care, it is the role of the community health nurse to address the needs of Centerville adolescents i...

conversation with MaryAlice Mowry," 2003). Many people do not realize that government benefits aligned with disabilities would be ...

be vulnerable to abuse or neglect for a variety of reasons and in a variety of situations, which range from home care to care in r...

from large teaching hospitals, leaving them with the more seriously ill patients, whose care also is the most costly (Johnson and ...

agony? Medicine was not always the assembly line it is today. According to Pescosolido and Boyer, there were three events that ch...

workers (Center for American Progress, 2007). Something must be done. Universal health care has been proposed by many politicians...

The purpose - indeed the entire study - does not specifically identify variables that can be labeled as independent. It is not an...

the rate of such hospital mergers. One of these trends was the "phenomenon of Columbia/HCA," a for-profit hospital system that man...

(Jennings, 2005). The reason for the huge increases in health care costs is not the insurance companies, Jennings found, but the f...

birth, it is critical to interact with the infant, to touch and cuddle and talk with the infant, to provide a safe and nurturing e...

because they do not have the means to get medical attention (Center for American Progress, 2007). Health care costs seem to rise e...

begins with "orientation," which is a period in which the nurse and the patient become acquainted. The relationship then proceeds ...

?19a-490, Connecticut Department of Public Health Code ?19-13-D105 and Residential care homes ?19-13-D-6 (National Academy for Sta...

can no longer follow this model is because medical technology can now greatly prolong life-perhaps make it too long. People now ro...

for its lack of market-changing competition (Porter and Teisberg, 2004), but competition exists nonetheless, if only indirectly. ...

diversion stoma (urostomy) allows urine to be passed through the stoma rather than the urethra (Kirkwood 20). Sometime stomas are ...

ownership, because it once again acts as a preventive measure against accidents or injuries for the animals, damaged household ite...

the supply by 2010 (Kleinman and Saccomano, 2006). Traditional nursing care models, such as primary nursing, are founded on the su...

It is left to regulatory agencies such as the DFPS to interpret the law, write regulations that are in accordance with the law and...