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HMO Incentives for Doctors

2008). Incentive programs can actually have very positive outcomes if they are used correctly and ethically (Sabin, 2008). In so d...

Managed Care and its Impact on Poor/Minority Patient Care

Concepts, theories, principles and practices in managed care and the health services industry in regards to social, economic, and ...

Progressively Aging Population

the standards of care and service reimbursement. With the growing elderly population and the changes in our familial lifestyles we...

Behavioral Health Management, Case Managers and Primary Care Physicians

to treatment; and "significant benefit restrictions for treating serious mental illnesses and addictions," have prompted advocates...

The Importance of Well Written and Presented Educational Materials in Patient Wellness

health information is pivotal to the efforts of practitioners in promoting health, changing behaviors and attitudes, and preventin...

Advanced Practice Nursing, the Self Care Deficit Model of Dorothea Orem, and Urinary Incontinence

development of nurse-operated continence centers, which provide conservative management for UI (Bernier, 2002). Continence nurses...

Health Care Governance - Three Studies

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

Software for Health Information Management

The Clinical Workstation Application of the 3M(tm) Care Innovation Expert Applications system focuses on providing clinicians and ...

Overview of Intensive Care Nursing

a good nurse ... Id spend more time with their families. If I were a good nurse, I would ..." (Williams, 2001; p. 24ac2)....

Health Care and the Internet

who are suffering from chronic ailments such as congestive heart failure, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), asthma and...

Nursing Home Care and the Effects of Mandatory Continuation of Nursing Education

nursing care over the past decade and how do they support the argument for a continuum of educational practices for nursing profes...

Social Systems Theory and Foster Care

physical and social limits, functional components, and feedback mechanisms" (Reicherter and Billek-Sawhney, 2003). With regard t...

Diversity in Occupations in Health Care

hallways of hospitals, it does seem to contain a great deal of minority workers. Yet, it is not clear who are in managerial roles ...

The Economic Impact on Home Health Issues

markets that can be quite lucrative. The industry can expect greater numbers of patients in the future, resulting both from demog...

Care Barriers

in a Scottish farmhouse that is more than 10 miles from the nearest village and more than 50 miles from the nearest hospital. Jame...

Critical Incident Analysis in Nurse Management

and certainly health care facilities. In essence, the minimum requirements of nursing dictate that: * the nurse remain cognizant ...

Health Care and Material Management

would have no need for surgical gloves, but a hospital or a stand-alone outpatient surgery clinic has need for both. A mate...

A Case Study of the Use of Collaborative Processes for a Woman with Multiple Comorbidities

points out that patients with comorbidities have additional needs that serve to increase the complexity of care. Various models of...

Quality Assurance and Nursing Management

In five pages this research paper discusses quality care standard maintenance and the role played by nurse managers in sustaining ...

Survival of Managed Care

twentieth century, with accusations that it has failed to live up to the demands placed upon it by the ever-growing population, ef...

Nursing & Spiritual Care

much broader in its application. It is this broadness that allows nurses to reach across religious lines and distinctions. In a su...

Care Partners/RNs & PCTs

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

Managed Care Contracts

Wagner 35). It is also suggested that the practitioner should, of course, thoroughly read the contract, but also that practition...

Roles and Issues Regarding Health Care Reform

in the future development and revision of health care policy: While the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010...

Reviewing the Literature on OBRA 87 and Care Quality

to increase the quality of care given in long term care facilities in the country, in order to ultimate reduce health care costs t...

INTERDISCIPLINARY RELATIONSHIPS AND HEALTH CARE

EDs x-rays or MRIs onto the priority list for whatever reason. The result is a lot of misunderstanding between the departments: ED...

HEALTH CARE AND LEGISLATION

newspapers and magazines understands that the "Big Kahuna" of health care regulations involves the Patient Protection and Affordab...

Cancer Care: An Economic Analysis

is an important part of healthcare that is focused on the economic principles of the industry. This branch of economics is used by...

Health Care Legislation: A Multi-Dimensional Concept

labyrinthine topic which is overwhelming in terms of both accessibility and comprehension. This is because the health care industr...