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Med/Surg Leader, An Interview

embarrassment in front of others, withheld pay increases, and termination" (Marriner-Tomey, 2004, p. 118). While conferring reward...

MEDICAL CARE, HIPPA REGULATIONS, COBRA AND OTHER CHALLENGES

HIPAA is actually protecting patients privacy and confidentiality (McBride, 2008). Granted, the respondents were of a particular s...

Culturally Competent Nursing Strategies

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

The Political and Financial Impacts of Health Coverage

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

AIDS in the US

US to a disproportionate degree. These groups include African Americans, Hispanics, and minority women and children (Dancy and Dut...

Vote for John Edwards

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

Nursing Leadership, Advocacy & Responsibilities

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

Health Care Needs in Contemporary America

the best in terms of healthcare. There are numerous other echelons of society, however, that receive healthcare in somewhat dimin...

Accessibility for Elderly to Rural Healthcare

been great debate over how to manage health care in the US, it has been relatively recently that the question has been raised that...

Political Issues in Nursing

nurses can become political active, as these organizations frequently play an active role in establishing public policy by publica...

Ethical Position Paper on Advance Directives, Ethical Decision-Making and Utilitarianism

wishes, she would remain on life support. This scenario has several ethical implications from the nursing or medical professional...

Osteoporosis In Elderly Women

in harmony and when they dont, osteoporosis is the result (Kantrowitz, 2007). Bone mineral density is generally measured as a T-s...

Healthcare Administration Ethics

cultural understanding. In a study conducted by Rawwas and Isakson on academic cheating, the student-participants "tend to blame...

The Problem With Socialized Medicine

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

Nurse Practitioner Role/The Present, The Future

innumerable national health system in meeting the demands for primary care in todays society (Main, Dunn and Kendall, 2007). NPs...

AETNA AND ECONOMICS

the immigration scenario is a health care system that is struggling to understand different cultures and their view on medicine. A...

Operations Management; Principle Healthcare Case Study

to identify the main activities of the company, as to gain accreditation under EMAS, or ISO 14001, a company needs to "establish a...

America's Ailing Healthcare as Depicted in Michael Moore's Documentary 'Sicko'

have reattached since he could not afford the cost of both. According to Rick, the hospital priced the reattachment of his middle...

Influences on Long Term Healthcare in the US; The Case of Cathedral Rock Corporation

Florida senator Mel Martinez who has introduced the Senior and Taxpayers Obligation Protection (STOP) Act (S. 975) in May 2009 (An...

Background to A Veterans' Association Healthcare Organization

The Oakland organization also plays a key role in aiding veterans to integrate back into the community; this has been seen when se...

Government's Sights on Healthcare Insurance

good first step would be with torte reform so that physicians are not required to order expensive and often unnecessary tests for ...

Healthcare Power and Leadership

to be appropriate for healthcare. Individuals have knowledge and expertise regardless of their level of certification and need to...

Healthcare and the Dangers of Nosocomial Infections

services. However, the greatest cost of all has been to human life, because nosocomial infections have resulted in patient deaths...

Public Policy and Healthcare

attempts by private institutions have been unsuccessful in addressing a problem. While administrated separately, Moon (2005) not...

Reforming Healthcare by Troubleshooting Ethical Problems

in other developed countries, they are essentially paying twice as much for their services, but not receiving comparable care qual...

How to combat the Problems of Healthcare Database Management

This 8 page paper gives an overview of healthcare databases. This paper includes facts about managing and regulating databases wit...

The Three Major Religions and Healthcare

This 7 page paper gives an overview of the basics of the major religions and why nurses should study them. This paper includes Jew...

Advantages and Limits of Simulation Training

Simulation training is often used in the healthcare environment. Three questions set by the student are answered. The first answe...

IHP Accreditation, The ACICS Process

This research paper describes the accreditation process being initiated by the Institute of Healthcare Professions (IHP) with the ...

Emotional Intelligence

The theory of Emotional intelligence was introduced in 1995 by Daniel Goleman. This paper reports what it is and identifies the fi...