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2008). Incentive programs can actually have very positive outcomes if they are used correctly and ethically (Sabin, 2008). In so d...

Nursing has evolved over the decades primarily as a result of research (Director, 2009). Nurses recognize a problem and introduce ...

grew from an average of seven in 1993 to an average of eleven in 2000 to an average of twelve in 2004 (Critser, 2007). At the tim...

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

whether or not a patient complaining of chest pains is having or has had a heart attack (American Clinical Laboratory Association,...

by many the local and national government ought to have a more important role in the healthcare of the nations. As early as 1900 t...

this rhetoric was how the act would impact the millions of people in the United States who suffer from emotional or physical disor...

a relatively new mental illness category. Gunderson (2001) explained that borderline personality disorder "is layered between neur...

Third cause of increasing healthcare costs is attributed to the attitude of the public, with the expectation that will diseases wi...

individual and small-group insurance will operate in a manner similar to large-group coverage by pooling risks (Iglehart, 2010). I...

from those of education- focused institutions, when the institution in question is a nursing school, there are similarities, as we...

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

properly! Budget and performance reports are a...

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

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

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

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

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

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

the arsenal of the therapist. It has been an effective tool for getting to the bottom of the emotional and spiritual malaise so p...

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

an assessed internal rate of return of 4.46%. This assessment was made using the accounting convention of conservatism. However,...

records, highlighting the capacity for such a change to have a sweeping impact throughout the industry. For example, in the 2009 "...

six months the intervention group had only 68 compared to 118 in the control group, likewise quality-of-life was found to be highe...

moving onto the objectives, looking at the alternatives and considering the consequences and the trade offs. In this paper we will...

was evaluated using the Beth Israel Medical Center flow sheet sedation scale (Loewy, et al, 2006). If, after 30 minutes, the patie...

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

As described by Araich (2001), four nursing strategies effectively summarize how a critical care nurse can use the RAM to aid a ca...

some determining the study was inconclusive, others saying certain interventions should be made universal and still others stating...

patient (Seidel, 2004). This author also states that effective communication is something that can and must be learned (Seidel, 2...