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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)....

Friendship Breakdown, Morality, and Logic

friends, but whose definition of "friendship" differs. For instance, person A strongly believes that trust is an essential element...

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...

Communication Issues/Neonatal ICU

some problems that can be encountered include "breast engorgement, nipple soreness, and latch-on" (Hurst, 2007, p. 207). An interp...

Contemporary Nursing Ethics

this development and left orders for both analgesia and sedation, which helped at first, but became less effective as the hours pa...

Wound Care/Wet-to-Dry v. Advanced Dressings

the same manner, however, this dressing is intended to stay moist until removal; however, this may become a wet-to-dry dressing in...

ICU Delirium

hospital stays (Cole and Soucy, 2003). While all ICU patients have serious and potentially life-threatening conditions, those ov...

Article Critique/Perceptions of Palliative Care

(in English) between the years 1989 and 2004. The extent of the literature review appears to be sufficient to support the research...

Old Age Conceptual Understanding

In eight pages this paper attempts to understand the concept of 'old age' and the current lack of respect being accorded senior ci...

Dementia

emotional (limbic) memories are affected, and the last group of memories to be affected as the "motor or more reptilian memories,"...

Mental Health Parity Act: Interplay of Policy, Cultural And Societal Attitudes Within Clinical Social Work Practice

mental health arena. Anyone is vulnerable to the onset of mental illness which can be triggered by any number of occurrences, not...

Political Economy and Globalization

Kants bottom-line position is that individuals should act from the "categorical imperative." That is to say that they should deci...

Health Benefits Of Red Wine

consuming a drink and lower risk of heart disease (Mukamal and Rimm, 2001). That same controversy tends to surround what is refer...

Nursing's Contribution to Quality of Life

could be called human biological life; or(2) human personal life that includes biological life but goes beyond it to include other...

Managed Care's Pros and Cons

In eleven pages this paper discuses PPOs and HMOs in an evaluation of these managed care system's pros and cons. Twelve sources a...

Censorship

in 2005, according to the American Library Association (ALA) (Manzo 26). The ALA defines a "challenge" as "any formal, written com...

Immigrant Views on Being American

own. Throughout the novel, Yezierska shows how Sara has absorbed the American values. For example, she steadfastly rejects the J...

Literature Review on Hospice Care's Underutilization

facility is (2000). Most also are not aware that Medicare pays for hospice facilities (2000). This article is important in pointi...

Nursing and the Importance of Intensive Care and Critical Care Skills

the non-emergency sections of the hospital or when they are in the doctors office or the resident clinic! Heart attacks happen! ...

Health Data Interactive and the National Center for Health Statistics

This paper explores human longevity as pictured by government statistics. Why is human longevity increasing at the same time dise...

Article Review of 'Health Inequalities and the Health of the Poor' by Gwatkins

"...it must also be recognized that, although the health sector is not necessarily the most important channel for dealing with ine...

Children's Dental Health and Public Health Policy

not view dentistry as very important. Some citizens see it as optional, but oral health is anything but. Apparently, citizens need...

Oxford Health's Management Operations

In one page a January 1998 article by Jim Champy featured in Computerworld entitled 'What Went Wrong at Oxford Health?' is summari...

World Health Organization and Global Health Issues

most pressing concern was a thorough assessment of the health issues and problems throughout the world and to suggest ways of deal...

Defining And Identifying Problems/Opportunities Between The "Public's Interest" And The "Public's Best Interest"

commercial activities and examine the effect on the society around them. This is no easy task, since an activity that generates m...

Ecofeminism

volumes about the inherent fortitude that comprises the female spirit. The concept of feminism embodies a number of critical theo...

Mental Health Therapy Options, Maintenance of Treating Mental Health Issues, and Cost Effective Measures

Cost-Effective Mental Health Care a) 12-Step Self-Help Group Therapies Researchers at the Stanford University School...

Case Study of the United Kingdom's National Health Service Direct and Mental Health Provision

the telephone as well as the Internet and walk in centres, to answer queries form patients in the effort to reduce the number of v...

Developed Country's Health Plan and Bill Clinton's Health Plan Compared

The changes that have occurred in healthcare over the last few years make it obvious that if healthcare representatives are to do ...

Importance Of Good Health, Emphasis Oral Health

reported that periodontal disease is a cause of low birth weight. Delta Dental stated their research suggests that oral infections...