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Essays 1951 - 1980

The Development of Healthcare Financing in the US

millennia ago, it is the first recorded use of pooled payment systems to proved healthcare. There are many examples of similar soc...

Aspects of Substance Abuse

For example, the Addictive Personality theory maintains that addiction is not due to the chemical effect of the drug, but rather i...

Advanced Practice Nursing Roles

the various roles and responsibilities that the specialty involves, they share the common quality that the nursing process is inhe...

QI Questions

for example the use of different Total Quality Management (TQM) tools (Mintzberg et al, 2008). The use of performance measurement ...

Home Nursing Care Accreditation, Regulation and Licensing

for competency, the use do surveys to assess standards and the evaluation of clients as well as the provision of a complaints hotl...

Panic Attacks, Haitian American Immigrant

therapy (Scheinbaum, 2012). Despite the considerable numbers of Haitian immigrants living in the US, which increased following t...

Tools to aid with Quality Implementations in a Home Care Agency to Help Reduce Fall Incident Rates

populations in other settings (Gray-Miceli, 2007). The aim of this risk model is to identify adults which are most likely to be at...

Texting from a Symbolic Interactionist Perspective

This is particularly true when it comes to secrets or complaints. Someone may complain about their boss in a text but accidentally...

Diabetic Ketoacidosis, A Case Study

among the classic symptoms of diabetic ketoacidosis. The pathophysiology of these symptoms results from the buildup in ketones due...

Pneumonia Care. Article Review

points: In this informative article, Holcomb begins by first differentiating between hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP), which is p...

79 Year Old Woman with Multiple Diseass

the age 65 have hypertension (Sirkin and Rosner 2009, p. 402). Hypertension leads to a lesser quality of life for the patient and ...

Two Article Summaries

provided details of the processes use to make changes in order to create a safer environment and reduce injuries, it was found tha...

Assessing Research

in the home and individuals suffering from dementia. The background literature review sites a wide range of sources, including res...

Assessing Research

The writer looks at a research article by Lach and Chang (2007) entitled Caregiver Perspectives on Safety in Home Dementia Care" p...

Healthcare Profile of London SW3

areas will have different needs, this will be indicated by a number of factors, the area itself and the features as well as the ch...

An Abstract & Various Assessment Instruments

testing instrument in the United States (Nurse and Sperry, 2004). First developed by Starke Hathaway and Charnley McKinley in 194...

Collective School Perspective

at the past and the philosophies that have created the present. Resnick and Hall (1998) point out that the current educational s...

Energy Crisis

send oil prices soaring to unprecedented levels" (Leeb and Strathy, 2006, p. 19). The end results may well be the end of civiliza...

Faith-Based Counseling

anxiety or address a family problem, they may prefer faith-based counseling simply because its in a language that fits them and th...

Colostomy, Stoma and Peristoma Care

be optimized: "The whole patient, should be assessed and physical, mental and social factors taken...

Parental Involvement in Caring for Hospitalized Children

a transition where parental involvement in hospitalization has changed. In the past, parents had been expected to leave the hospi...

Case Management and Managed Care

the caregiver needs other information, information that is clinical "for patients or covered members from all segments of integrat...

Long Term Care/Medicare Reform

majority, if not all, Medicare part D plans will offer incentives for participants to choose generic drugs. It is believed that "g...

Leininger's Culture Care Nursing Theory

caring; 2. every human culture has lay (generic, folk or indigenous) care knowledge and practices and usually some professional ca...

Vets with PTSD

with sudden flashbacks intruding on thoughts (Fagan and Freme, 2004). Other symptoms include: an exaggerated startle reflex, sleep...

End Of Life Care And The Importance Of Advance Directives

is why it is sometimes difficult to understand the humane element of living wills and DNRs. Until one has been in the place of an...

Central Bark Dog Daycare Marketing Plan

meet the needs of most dogs and owners where there are special health or well being considerations, as long as the dogs are happy ...

Quality Improvement/Pressure Ulcers

a "collaborative quality improvement project" that focuses on PUs in nursing homes as its primary focus (Lynn, et al, 2007). QIOs,...

Observing a Religious Service

the listeners would occasional offer comments and observations, to which the rabbi would generally respond. Occasionally, this pro...

Home Depot's Location Strategy

and even employees were concerned. One mused, "They are just doing this to prevent Lowes from getting into the market ... I am wo...