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Decision Making at Happy Hospital Budget, Performance, and Ethics

properly! Budget and performance reports are a...

Quality Improvement in Health Care

than nurses, executives and managers at those hospitals. St. Lukes Medical Center St. Lukes is a 154-bed hospital located in S...

Putting Kolcaba's Theory of Comfort in Practice

a peaceful death among terminal patients. HSBs of specific groups of any size - whether large or small - are positively related t...

The Common Factors Approach to Psychotherapy

"encouragement of facing probl4ems/fears, support of efforts to master problems/ears, affective experiencing/catharsis" (Coady 15)...

Ethical Issue Of Confidentiality In School Counseling

there are those that are relevant to childrens protection as well, such as confidentiality. For example, during a recent visit tw...

Deep Brain Stimulation For Parkinson's And Dystonia

movement disorders, such as Parkinsons and dystonia. This procedure was initially developed in 1987 in France (Song, 2006). This a...

In Favor of Euthanasia

to base their arguments on more spiritual and ethereal ground, such as the idea that a persons life ends when God chooses to end i...

In Favor of the Right to Die

in place for some time, and none of the fears surrounding it have ever materialized (Seale, 2006). Research shows that 171 people ...

Prostate Cancer and Quality of Life

cancer affects both the man and his life partner. In most cases, study designs addressing quality of life issues for prostate canc...

Medicalization

points out, medicalization is a process that defines a problem in terms of the practitioners perspective and cultural biases, rath...

Bipolar Disorder

there is very little information about predisposes people to these episodes (Swann, 2006). Therefore, for the most part, nursing a...

Health Care Organizations :

is not an expectation based on fact or knowledge, it is based on hope. 2. Clinicians personal and professional values Personal ...

Medical Issues in Euthanasia

the patient die (1975). Consider the case of a patient with terminal throat cancer, who is in terrible pain which cannot successfu...

NP role in EDs/Study Article Critique

and theoretical Framework: The instrument designed for use in this study drew heavily upon the survey developed by Cole, et al, wh...

HOSPITAL CASE STUDY

paying salaries). Patients are going to generally go to hospitals where their doctors are - though when it comes to emergencies or...

Medical Coding

classify medical errors (Pace et al., 2005). In fact, there are taxonomies to classify errors but they are not standardized (Pace ...

ADHD: A Critique of the Research

and Perou (2007) report that an estimated five to eighteen percent of youth in the US are diagnosed with ADHD and most receive so...

Health Care Interdisciplinary Teams

patient, the attending nurse is seldom in the room at the same time. The attending physician may refer the patient to a cardiologi...

ADHD and the Role of the Psychiatric Nurse

motor vehicle crashes, substance abuse, and illegal behavior" (Visser, Lesesne and Perou, 2007, S99). Symptoms include irritabili...

Coronary Angiography

and Blood Institute, 2007). Zardi and colleagues (2008) referred to this procedure as the "gold standard" (p. 48) for assessing th...

Hospital Medicare Reimbursement

to take expensive prescription medications as prescribed. This acerbates medical conditions and results in increases in acuity lev...

Role of Charge Nurse

the situation, the charge nurse might take a number of different actions in response to this information. For example, the charge ...

Nurses Job Satisfaction

in the U.S. stands at 8.5 percent to over 14 percent, depending on the specific area of specialty (Letvak and Buck, 2008), by 2020...

HEALTH CARE AND LEGISLATION

newspapers and magazines understands that the "Big Kahuna" of health care regulations involves the Patient Protection and Affordab...

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...

Implementing Electronic Health Records in the US

In the US there is a requirement for healthcare organizations to use electronic health records (HER), also known as electronic pat...

Using Evidence Based Practice to Explore the Effectiveness of Constraint Induced Language Therapy

non-intense application produces better results, while others claim that intensity is the key to results. This paper will explore ...

Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: The Legal and Ethical Dimensions

or another, enter into ethical quandaries as a result of their regular operations. This is because virtually all organizational ac...

The Thao Case/Medication Error

prohibited from working over 12 hours in a 24-hour period or more than 60 hours per week for 2 years ("Criminal case," 2007). Th...