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

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

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

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

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

knowledge safely and appropriately" (p. 17). Morath (2003) went so far as to state clearly that the U.S. healthcare system is dang...

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

situation. As a provider of care, it is the role of the community health nurse to address the needs of Centerville adolescents i...

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

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

In three pages this research paper discusses how humor can be a modality that assists nurses in patient care as well as self care....

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...

Foundation, 2006). In 2003, at least US$700 million was spent by Americans purchasing drugs from Canadian pharmacies (Kaiser Famil...

now our nations elderly have depended on Medicare/Medicaid for their medical needs. The Medicare/Medicaid system upon which these...

quality of care is approached, while at the same time find ways to reduce costs. It has also been noted that socialized health ca...

diversion stoma (urostomy) allows urine to be passed through the stoma rather than the urethra (Kirkwood 20). Sometime stomas are ...

hospitals to reevaluate the way in which patient care is delivered and quality of care is approached, while at the same time find ...

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...

workers (Center for American Progress, 2007). Something must be done. Universal health care has been proposed by many politicians...

patient (Seidel, 2004). This author also states that effective communication is something that can and must be learned (Seidel, 2...

As stated, the pet food industry already generates more than $53 billion in sales; accessories and nonessential services (i.e., ex...

healthcare services to senior citizens, which is an at-risk population in this country. One helping approach for people with dis...

that is, whether it will spread (metastasize) and what symptoms that it is likely to cause (Cancer diagnosis, 2005). The term "sec...

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

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

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

It is left to regulatory agencies such as the DFPS to interpret the law, write regulations that are in accordance with the law and...

records and kept him and his family informed about his progress to date and what he could expect along the path to recovery. Nurs...