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'Angel of the Battlefield' Clara Barton

in the 19th and early 20th century, the fact is even more remarkable. "Well and Strong and Young" Updike writes that in 1854 Bar...

The History and Mission of Tripler Army Medical Center

facility grew to over 1,000 beds and the addition of a many barracks-style buildings. The design for a new facility began in 1942 ...

Training, Teamwork and Benefits in Patient Care

with physicians to "Yes, doctor," the still-proceeding transitions in healthcare continue to elevate the position of nurse while n...

Medical Consent and Dependents Over the Age of 18

have declined given their knowledge of the fact that the pain their daughter was experiencing was not that atypical and was obviou...

Hospital Cost Drivers

the importance of the demographic mix, the provision of some services will be less expensive to provide, For example, where there ...

Managerial Development

In five pages the TQM management strategy is applied to a scenario for transforming doctors into managers with a community hospita...

The New Health Care and Columbia/HCA

Managed care has caused an upheaval in the way medical services are delivered in this country. This paper discusses the largest su...

Animal Assisted Therapy and the Relationship Between Dogs and Humans

emotional, physical and mental care. Dogs establish a fierce loyalty to their human families in a very short amount of time; bond...

Nurse's Personality and Review of a Nursing Journal Article V

In two pages this paper discusses how nurses can deal with the stress of their jobs with a 'hardy' personality as described in thi...

Terminally Ill Patient, a Nurse's choice Not to Resuscitate, and the Resulting Lawsuit

In six pages this nurse's job loss is examined in terms of the reasons behind it after her failure to save a terminally ill patien...

Nursing Administration Unit and Hospital Mergers

In ten pages this paper examines the increasing health care industry practice of hospital mergers and the problems with them and s...

Student Submitted Inventory Cost Control Problem

In five pages compound interest effects and bottom line hospital recommendations regarding item orders through negotiating interes...

Market Research and Health Care

In twenty pages large clinics and hospitals are the focus of this consideration of health care activities in market research. Ele...

Times Changing in the Process of Birth Delivery

In a paper consisting of five page the U.S. process of birth delivery is examined in a comparison between traditional hospital del...

Research on Patterns of Hospital Staffing

In two pages a research study is summarized as it involves CUF and UUF patterns of hospital staffing, how cost effective they are,...

Medium Sized Hospital Implementation of the Windows NT Server

for medium and even smaller individual hospitals. Hospital administrators must both understand and communicate the fact that the ...

California Nonprofit Hospital Tax Exempt Status Assessment

In ten pages this position paper discusses challenging the tax exempt status of a California nonprofit hospital in terms of legali...

Medical Ethics Issues and Catholic Hospitals

In eight pages the moral dilemmas several Catholic hospitals struggle with in terms of such medical issues as euthanasia and abort...

Pros and Cons of Hospital Mergers

In six pages this paper examines the increasing U.S. practice of merging hospitals in an overview of the pros and cons of this pra...

Modern Medicine's Early History

In six pages this research paper considers the early history of modern medicine as presented in Medicine at the Paris Hospital, 17...

Administrators, Staff Nurses, and Shared Liability

In two pages this paper examines how hospital administrators and staff nurses share medical liability in a definition of the term ...

Anarchist Ed Kienholz

In five pages this essay considers the anarchist art of Ed Kienholz in terms of the artist's attitudes and style of composition wi...

Johnson and Johnson Culture and Change

where employees are important stakeholders as seen with the "Live for Life" employee health program initiated in 1976, which was ...

Iatrogenic Infection

This 14 page paper looks at the issue of iatrogenic infection and how a hospital may undertake an innovation to reduce the occurre...

Managed Care, HMOs & Evolution over Last Decade

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

Creating a Consulting Firm

of health care is in and remains in flux as we seek systems that not only work in the present but also are sustainable over time. ...

Hospital Downsizing/Change Initiatives

and simply "more territory to cover overall" (McConnell, 2005, p. 177). In response to this downsizing trend, the best defense tha...

Should A Nursing Manager Quit?

interests and values considered and respected in the decision-making process" (Fly and Johnstone, 2002). This rationale is undoubt...

Alabama's Rural Hospitals and the JCAHO

In ten pages this paper discusses Alabama's rural hospital in a consideration of how the standards of the Joint Commission on Acc...

Hospitals and Multicultural Diversity

In five pages the hospital setting is examined in a discussion of the importance of multicultural diversity in care with various i...