SEARCH RESULTS

health care plan. Yet, the HMO does not engage in rationing, but contemporary models of socialized medicine do see waiting lines f...

care is to formulate a health care system and workforce that possesses the skill and understanding required to deliver quality hea...

called for Congress to use it control of financing to stop escalation of the war effort in Iraq (Walsh, 2007). At that time, Edwar...

Leadership and management while related are two distinctively different concepts. Leadership can be discerned from simply manageme...

the director of health system performance studies at Fraser Institute, was quoted as saying that "It is irresponsible for a wealth...

separation of Medicaid eligibility from assistance programs. In fact, this act was designed to increase the access for low-income...

justified. As they expect to see signs of slothfulness and unprofessional conduct, this is precisely what they find. Their expecta...

of healthcare portals, designed to introduce access to a variety of sources of healthcare information and improve patient services...

also changing. In the past the systems were being used in a more limited manner, with more emphasis placed on aspects such as busi...

expanded upon, specifically, in the Nurse Practice Acts that govern nursing in the individual states. New understanding relations...

noted that cases of a rare lung infection, pneumocystis carinni pneumonia, had occurred in Los Angeles and also that three young m...

this incident may have contributed to her divorce. It is also true that her mother has had a problem with alcoholism for over twen...

management (DM) concept Disease management (DM) is defined as a "systematic clinical improvement process," which addresses both ...

Resource Management Systems," 2007). Acquisition relates to recruiting employees as well as the selection process ("Contemporary P...

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

In 1997 it is estimated the pressure ulcers cost the Australian healthcare system A$350 million and with patients that develop ulc...

hospital setting but wrote, "The lack of empirical research fails to provide support to claims that TQM reconciles trade-offs betw...

In 2001, health care spending as a percentage of GDP was 14.1 percent, or $5,035 per capita (Levit, Smith, Cowan, Lazenby, Senseni...

indicates, restraint places health practitioners between the proverbial rock and a hard place. However, there are practice standar...

I replied that I could develop a program with her supervision, that nurses were more interested in furthering their training than ...

real-time applications, patient records are updated instantly as information is added to them. Thus the physician making rounds h...

guidelines on how to address cleaning and disinfecting issues as they impact on the problem of HAIs. Before offering conclusion, t...

interfaces with the a new computerized patient order entry system. Therapists use tablets at the patient bedside, which enhances m...

by trying things out)...reflective learners (learn by thinking things through, working alone) 5. sequential learners (linear, orde...

individual, the eight values of the CNA Code provide a framework for guidance regarding nursing behavior. The Code states that the...

to occur in someone who has had diabetes for many years" (Federal Citizen Information Center, 2006). Type 1 diabetics walk ...

inadequacies in the standard of patient care due to a clinician refusing "to consult the on call physician or group" due to a cont...

15.4% in 2003/4 (Anonymous, 2004). The approach has been to look for new ways of satisfying the same needs, such as the use of gen...

(Kemp, 2005). In American mainstream culture, making eye contact is expected, as this indicates that the other person is listening...

unnecessary, and the look of importance which implied that if only you put yourself in our hands we will arrange everything - we k...