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Gap Analysis: Global Communications

Horngren, Sundem and Stratton (2002) provide a view of the alternatives available to organizations in Global Communications positi...

Diabetes in Adolescence

between cases at the time of diagnosis (Newmark and Anhalt, 2007). Type 1 diabetes is typically due to a "lack of insulin producti...

Needs Assessment for an Administrator of Patient Care Services for Women's Healthcare Services

often impacts the health and well-being of other members in a family (Miami Valley Hospital, 2004). As a result, the Womens Healt...

Holistic Patient Care: An Example

from the commune to provide support for Helen in the hospital setting. Some general concerns occurred as a result of the assessme...

Changing the Views on Mental Health Care

is dedicated to the memory of Linda Anderson, research writer, mother and friend....

Technology Improves Emergency Rooms

their resources and materials but emergency rooms do not seem to be able to keep track of equipment or even patients. One issue we...

Dementia Case

are different medications Mrs. N could take for depression, if she is depressed. There is no diagnosis to that effect. It is likel...

Hand Hygiene Programs and Health Care Organization

structure is never easy, except for at the very formation of that organization. To come into a pre-existing organizational environ...

Patient Privacy and Health Care Ethics - An Organizational Study

Florida cancer center, one can successfully examine how organizational structure and governance, as well as an organizations cultu...

Best Practices and Satisfaction in Health Care

many professionals feel is attached to a strong desire to do the right thing. When organizations are engaging in unethical practic...

The Health Care Industry and Electronic Communication

one technologically based communication modality-e-mail, a web-based forum, and so forth- involving patients and health care provi...

Issues in Implementing Change for a Healthcare Company

The writer looks at a scenario where a home care health organization wants to introduce an electronic patient records system. The ...

Effects of New Health Reform Policy

income (Douglas & Burke, 2010; Kaiser Family Foundation, 2011). Medicare taxes on net investment income will also increase from 0....

Primary Prevention in Diabetic Care

can be easily determined via the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) and by testing fasting plasma glucose (FPG), as these tests ar...

Practicum Example for a Nursing Course

of falls in elderly chronic patients at that home. 1c. Discuss findings with supervisor/mentor. 1a. The creation of a detailed...

The Development of Healthcare Financing in the US

millennia ago, it is the first recorded use of pooled payment systems to proved healthcare. There are many examples of similar soc...

Diabetic Ketoacidosis, A Case Study

among the classic symptoms of diabetic ketoacidosis. The pathophysiology of these symptoms results from the buildup in ketones due...

Diabetic Patient, A Care Plan

cholesterol and triglyceride level was also above normal to an extent indicating the necessity for intervention. The most disturbi...

Literature Review of Incidences of Septic Shock and Sepsis in ICU Patients

result in septic shock. Of that 200,000, approximately half result in death due to the onset of sepsis and the subsequent septic ...

Dementia Patient and Health Care

of dementia depend on the cause of the disease. However, in all senses of the definition of dementia, it is irreversible and will...

Hand Washing and the Care of Patients

preventing and controlling nosocomial infection. Yet its often neglected although nosocomial infections threaten the lives of appr...

Practical Nursing Theory Application

care model is highly useful with the elderly and those recovering from surgery or illness. Self care is not an issue that enters ...

Patient Scenario on Stroke Examination

affect patient outcomes (Finley, 2004). The degree to which Mr. Smith will be affected by the stroke, and, indeed, his very survi...

Rehabilitation and Acute Stroke Units

ensuring that a significant proportion of stroke victims survive and retain their independence. This is important not only from th...

Senior Citizen Mental Illness Workplace Management and Prevention of Violence

to nonadherence to medication in the mentally ill elderly is attempting to successfully pinpoint a single yet comprehensive connot...

Hispanics and Diabetes Management

Have you had any experience in helping a friend or family member manage diabetes? The patient replied that she was not aware of...

Massachusetts General Hospital and its Patient Care Delivery Model

the mid-1990s and later. The hospitals purpose in implementing the PCDM was to decrease costs of both operation and labor, while ...

Managed Care and Disabilities Models of Medi Cal

have different health care needs than their non-disabled counterparts (Donegan Shoaf, 1999). Medi-Cal is one such health c...

HIV and AIDS Survey Protocols

Over twice as many people have been infected with HIV than was initially projected; over 42 million people have been infected sinc...

Patient Care and Issues of Culture and Language

student--in respect to hospitalization. One question that also arises is whether the culture of the non-English speaking patient p...