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Richard Branson's Ventures into Healthcare

The company was founded by entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson in 1970. He began with a magazine he wanted to publish, then he and a ...

The Yellow Wallpaper and Its Impact on the Narrator

and for good reason: it is a brilliant account of a womans descent into madness. Because it is handled so realistically, it is utt...

EMR Software: Comparison and Analysis

it seems clear to many that physical storage of data is on the way out. Libraries at corporations and universities across the worl...

Tort Claim Law in Florida

the legal process. They provide a vitally necessary mechanism by which individuals can hold governmental institutions responsible ...

Assessing an Investment for a Hospital

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

Medical Informatics

four major informatics theories and a discussion of the Data, Information and Knowledge (DIK) model. This is followed by an overvi...

Diagnosing Medical Problems

body" (What causes anemia?, 2009). The symptoms of this condition include pale skin and fatigue, and the causes include "[A]n iron...

Cigarette Smoking and The Health Care System

health outcomes are generally found in proportion to the number of cigarettes that a smoker uses each day (Goodwin, Keyes and Hasi...

Abandoning Abbreviations in the Medical Arena

common practice of writing out dosages using a "trailing zero" (Landers 1). When the doctor rights 10.0 mg it is simply too easy ...

Personal Reflections on Identifying and Dealing with Illness

can bring them a fan. There are, in fact, many small things that we can do to reduce our patients stress levels that have nothing...

"The Yellow Wallpaper" and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Use of Setting

it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on" (Gilman 11)....

COMPARING AND CONTRASTING MISSION STATEMENTS

(Owens-White Outpatient Rehabilitation Center); cancer (Joe Arrington Cancer Research and Treatment Center) and maternity/womens i...

Mistakes in Medical Abbreviations

in the fact that the abbreviations largely come from the Latin: "OD" is intended to mean "once daily" but is sometimes read as "oc...

Documentation Errors and Incorrect Abbreviations in Medical Documentation

may matter (Arevalo, 2007). At the least, they force people to stop what theyre doing to track down someone who can clarify the ab...

Hospital Patient Safety

for patient safety identified these specific goals. For obvious reasons, these are copied directly from the Commissions Web page. ...

Data Security Policies: A Comparison of Three Health Care Facility Policies

any unlawful or inappropriate use. Nor may such use result in "personal financial gain or the benefit of any third party", waste ...

Adding an Athletic Trainer to the Sports Medicine Clinic

increase; third-party payers strive to keep payments as low as possible; individuals seek to enhance performance or gain the great...

Medical School Application

medical professionals. My choice was not a simple one and reflects a solid process of evaluating educational programs, identifyin...

Stem Cells and Their Uses

place, researchers injected a toxin into the monkeys brains, then transplanted "3 million cells into the brains of five of the mon...

The Role of the Registered Nurse in Educating Teens about STDs/HPV

carry out specific behaviors influences the behaviors in which they engage, their persistence in the face of obstacles, and the ef...

The Role of the Registered Nurse in Educating Teens about STDs/HIV

The theory is "rooted in an agentic perspective," meaning that humans are the agents of change in their lives (Pajares, 2004). Peo...

BUSINESS PLAN EVALUATION -- FOSSA MEDICAL

this benchmark assessment in this section comes in the area of personnel. There is no urologist mentioned -- and given that one of...

BUDGET CUTS AND MEDICAID ANALYSIS

health outcomes (Wilson, 2006). Chronic diseases, such as diabetes and asthma are at issue as well (Wilson, 2006). Also, a...

THE RISING COSTS OF HEALTH CARE IN THE UNITED STATES

doctors and hospitals who have no problems charging a patient three dollars for an aspirin tablet. Its also easy to point the fing...

Proposal for an Addiction Treatment Center

Programs and Addiction Treatment Centers, 2007). Breaking addiction to these and other abused drugs often requires medical interv...

Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP)

factors that have been identified include "diabetes, alcoholism, malnutrition, history of antibiotic or corticosteroid use, decrea...

Relevance of “The Doctor” to Assessment and Appraisal

a doctor has to treat the whole person. Many studies have shown that patients resent it when doctors think of them simply as their...

Knowledge Management at Molnlycke Health Care

can be used by the company and its employees. Molnlycke Health Care, established in 1998 as the result of a merger between the c...

Reaction Paper on a Case Study

weaker, less developed than the other. This delayed his walking, and, even after he walked successfully at age 3, it took several ...

The Role of the Medical Anthropologist in Controlling Malaria in Namibia

lack of proper water treatment and drainage systems, all of which contribute to its spread. In Africa in general, where m...