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Controlling Costs and HMOs

a total of more than $4,000 for every citizen of the country (Grumbach and Bodenheimer, 1994). Plagued by overspending for years,...

Nursing Models and Theories of Erickson and Orem

and can be applied in a variety of clinical settings, as well as in educational programs and research. Orems theory is bas...

Questions on Managed Care and Medicare

Unlike the nonprofit hospitals that are becoming increasingly rare, HMOs are not required to provide any service to anyone who is ...

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...

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...

Andre DuBus' 1991 'Killings'

in the story where a judgment is made concerning the validity of revenge. The argument is made that a killing will not restore ...

Nursing's Philosophy of Caring

In five pages this paper discusses contemporary nursing and the caring philosophy's role. Seven sources are listed in the bibliog...

Lives of Seagulls

In five pages this paper presents an overview of the lives of seagulls in a consideration of their life span, feeding, characteris...

Maternal Care and Psychological Problems

This paper examines how detrimental experiences during childhood can impact upon the care of mothers in later years in five pages....

Hospitality and Customer Care

cases when staying at a hotel or motel, it will be the front desk that the customer will call when a problem or need arises. How ...

Patient Care Quality and Nurse Staffing

In six pages this paper considers studies that explore the link between patient care quality and nurse staffing. Five sources are...

Australia's Dental Industry

In eight pages this paper discusses public and private dental care system problems in Australia with possible solutions offered. ...

A Proposal for a Child Care Center

and security, as well as the positive aspects of learning through mistakes; the development of cognitive skills - including proble...

Donoghue v. Stevenson 1932 Tort Law Case

In five pages English tort law is discussed with the focus being on this 1932 case precedent Donoghue v. Stevenson with the duty o...

Nursing Research and its Significance

In seven pages this paper discusses the importance of nursing research for a clear understanding of methodology and ever changing ...

Children and Social Attachment Issues

as a baby," (Harmon, 7, 2001), which should serve to remind us that "infants and toddlers are part of relationships and that to un...

Hospital Standard Care and Manual Handling Policy

long been an integral component to the standard of care provided at hospitals, nursing homes, home care and other situations where...

Control and Care in a Social Work Setting

workers should not be the secular priests in the church of individual repair; they should be the caretakers of the conscience of t...

Old South Traditions in Faulkner's 'A Rose For Emily'

And, it is in this essentially foundation of control that we see who Emily is and see how she is clearly intimidated by these male...

Abuse in Foster Care

may believe this to be a hoax and something that does not occur very often, the truth is that this happens quite often, and the tr...

Welfare State, Power Transformation, and Managerialism

for various programs and those who are involved in these programs. Most of the incentives fall for the department themselves, shif...

Analysis of Incurred but Not Reported

payment has yet to be received. Given this, IBNR can end up being a problem for hospitals and/or health care organizations...

Nurses, Patients, and Managed Care

as HMO, PPO, POS, EPO, PHO, IDS and AHP (IHA, 2002). This is creating a service that can be seen as dividing...

Student Training and Outlook in Pediatric Nursing

The job prospects for pediatric nurses show all the signs of significant growth over the next ten years, with an expected faster g...

Ethical Considerations Regarding Terminal Illness and Palliative Care

one, we become constantly reacquainted with the subject. The way that we deal with death varies on both an individual and a colle...

Nursing in Great Britain, Clinical Supervision

patient care" (p. 438). Prior to 1970, nursing training in the UK could be described as rigid and highly structured. After...

Early Childhood Education Professionals and an Administrative Training Literature Review

in the "people" business. Nothing could be further from the truth or more damaging to the organization. Managing non-profit and se...

Standards of Critical Care Nursing

Critically-Care nurses, 1989 in Nursing Management, 1999, p. 38). This abbreviated version of AACN nursing standards was located...