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back for treatment and who would be left behind and not treated. In the 1800s, unless a patient was dying those in the emergency r...

a problem that is difficult to define adequately. There is much competition in the health field, and in the mental health field t...

goes way beyond the paradigm of nursing as simply a "handmaiden" to physicians. The nursing professional is required to know virtu...

Obviously, the cost of administering such a program entails the running of a department and employing social workers and other sta...

with advancing age. Care providers cannot set lower fees for uninsured individuals and then penalize the insured and their insure...

not want his father informed), presenting a rationale for signing a health care proxy becomes extremely problematic. Guidelines us...

protection. It seems that the purpose of the old system was typical as the facility needed communications. However, in health care...

of the true nature of their illnesses. While keeping such facts from the patients may be considered merciful it does, at times, en...

Most of those insured by third-party payers have had all or part of their healthcare premiums paid by employers. Competitive pres...

dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...

without mentioning their love affair with olive oil, and the esteem which this precious ingredient holds in this culture (Miller, ...

health of the individual and to their success in recuperation. The Association for Spirit at Work is comprised of medical profess...

resolve. Our nations seniors are responsible for most health care expenditures, merely because of their age and the increased nee...

who were in need of an epidural block in order to anesthetize the severe birth-related pain. Unable to hand over the several hund...

characteristics of the group, interpersonal relationships within the group and the characteristics of the culture. The leader must...

into a receiving country, this population has the same entitlement to social benefits - such as health care - as the native popula...

Security system and others had begun to focus on the idea of a program aimed at insuring Social Security beneficiaries" (Anonymous...

(HMOs), the explosive growth of Medicare and Medicare abuses and the resulting "crackdown" on Medicare policies and procedures. T...

policies in regard to the PSDA. I have been fortunate in that I was chosen to be a member of that team. Consequently, I have at ...

paralleled by the employers duty towards the worker. Legal accountability is that which is delineated by the civil and criminal la...

for further self-harm to occur. Pembrooke and Smith recommend, for example, that triage staff assume that even minor injuries repr...

are, of course, special considerations which go into treating the elderly. We know, for example, that the elderly often experienc...

state of the art technology. Their lives will be saved above the others. It is somewhat like the scenario when the Titanic went do...

diagnosing it. It is not as if depression is difficult to diagnose. What is difficult is getting clients into facilities and to ad...

period. It is determined by a number of factors including income, tastes and the price of complementary and substitute goods." In ...

problems "are extremely high among the homeless population" (NCH Fact Sheet #8, 2005). In fact, homeless persons are far more li...

change, understand the reasons for this change and hare a vision of the future" (Gokenbach, 2003, p. 8). The catch is that these g...

paired with a continually expanding population have introduced others. A degradation of the nursing/patient relationship, concern...

feel that ongoing, regular access to and the use of health information is essential to achieve important public health objectives ...

and continues to do so, over the past two decades, as it was first published in 1979 (Falk-Rafael, 2000). In formulating her theor...