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as sadness. My Dad quickly smiled and patted me on the back, but in my heart I knew that my decision would forever change the cou...

All of these studies reflect empirical studies of hospital populations in an effort to determine how changes in the healthcare env...

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...

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

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

the fever? Was it related to an infection in the surgical wound? Was the patient developing atelectasis and pneumonia? Or, was the...

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

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

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

In 1998 the Chrysler group was acquired by Daimler-Benz for $37 million (Ostle, 2001). In making this acquisition there were a ran...

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

precedence for those at stake to be anyone "who has a direct interest in the firm or some stake in its activity" (Poulton, 2003), ...

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

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

infected individuals essentially quadrupled in South Africa and Zimbabwe (El-Asfahani and Girvan, 2009). Today an estimated 25 pe...

anticipated to help improve the system over the long term, short-term there will have to be adaptations by organizations as they d...

a top priority for many hospitals; however, the competition among hospitals for these nurses is intense (Thomason, 2006). Problem...

this rhetoric was how the act would impact the millions of people in the United States who suffer from emotional or physical disor...

This paper will discuss the debate in Australia. People are also aware that health care is not as good as it could be, so the seco...

of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), define an "Advance Directives," as "l...

and health care demands, in part, that hospitals provide a functional presence on the web as a way of providing a higher quality o...

fail to assure patient safety and a reasonable working environment for themselves. Sutter Health is a large system of hospitals an...

This research paper offers brief discussion of 3 issues pertaining to managed care, which are the advantages and disadvantages of ...

material possessions and feelings of isolation from political officials and institutions. Forbrig, Joerg. Revisiting Youth Pol...

they visited, and some tended to visit fairly frequently (Demling et al, 2002). Patients in general were very positive about thei...

receiving additional income for having patients who use less services. As Stone (1997) indicates, she received a healthy bonus che...

In most states, regulations concerning private managed care companies and programs are put forth primarily by the states insurance...

important to understanding the impact of interventions. One of the major problems noted by a number of theorists is that the exte...

a specialized body of knowledge, skills and experience that enables these nurses to offer a high standard of care to critically il...

prepared for this role" (McKenna, 1997, p. 87). Perhaps most significant of all was Florence Nightingales belief that env...