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responsible for most health care expenditures, merely because of their age and the increased need for direct care with advancing a...
the problem and to eliminate it where possible. Nester (1998) quantifies the extent of the problem relating that an estimated 1,2...
back for treatment and who would be left behind and not treated. In the 1800s, unless a patient was dying those in the emergency r...
goes way beyond the paradigm of nursing as simply a "handmaiden" to physicians. The nursing professional is required to know virtu...
a problem that is difficult to define adequately. There is much competition in the health field, and in the mental health field t...
the same holds true about the theories with which these people are treated. In the United Kingdom, nurses specializing in forensi...
from an advanced practice nurse. Patients value the nurse practitioner (NP) as a trustworthy source of medical information that a...
them. In common with other regions, Massachusetts is currently looking towards ways in which policies relating to those with menta...
with them to the first American Colonies, and mostly served as a model as to who would provide what services in the early, fledgli...
scientific investigation and treatment of trauma and/or death of victims of abuse, violence, criminal activity, and traumatic acci...
or state agencies may seek and implement studies. II. Nursing Home Care for the Elderly Whenever nursing home care is an...
for further self-harm to occur. Pembrooke and Smith recommend, for example, that triage staff assume that even minor injuries repr...
state of the art technology. Their lives will be saved above the others. It is somewhat like the scenario when the Titanic went do...
medical education, it changed all aspects of medical care and the relationships that exist between physician and patient (pp. 395)...
into a receiving country, this population has the same entitlement to social benefits - such as health care - as the native popula...
characteristics of the group, interpersonal relationships within the group and the characteristics of the culture. The leader must...
Security system and others had begun to focus on the idea of a program aimed at insuring Social Security beneficiaries" (Anonymous...
government and distort the issues by using unethical practices. Their dealings with government officials are sometimes damaging t...
(HMOs), the explosive growth of Medicare and Medicare abuses and the resulting "crackdown" on Medicare policies and procedures. T...
at where it was spent in 1997 20.7% was spent on inpatient care, 25.6 on out-patient care and 14% on pharmaceuticals (Anonymous, 2...
in the world where health care is able to benefit from the best and the latest technologies (Improving Quality in a Changing Healt...
regimes and goals are instituted to bring about change that is viewed to be best for the people involved (Oberle and Allen, 2002)....
can be tricky. There are always hypochondriacs or the medically educated who do not necessarily agree with the doctors findings. P...
where there is reduced access and denial of necessary services to patients in general (Lens, 2002). This situation causes increa...
field of medicine was not a very stable one, with almost anyone hanging out a shingle and calling themselves a doctor (American Me...
plan was due to fail on several fronts. First the plan itself was way too broad - and way too much for...
measuring device is used, there is less need for the student to discuss the reliability and accuracy of the instruments. Statisti...
public policy. These groups are normally organized for the purpose of being with people of like-minded moral reasons for the soci...
have different health care needs than their non-disabled counterparts (Donegan Shoaf, 1999). Medi-Cal is one such health c...
the people involved (Oberle and Allen, 2002). The principal focus of the simultaneity paradigm is on the clients perspectives of t...