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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,...

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...

Suggestions for a Clinical Journal Entry

to answer Mary or look at her. Mary continued to talk soothingly, rubbing Angelas back lightly as she did so. She talked about how...

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...

Patton-Fuller Community Hospital - Network Security Concerns

The paper explores the benefits of the Electronic Medical Record system, or EMR, that several hospitals have begun to adopt. There...

Medical Insurance - Appeal Processes and Potential Claim Errors

a minimum value hurdle met, so avoid wasting time on small claims. In Medicare cases where there is a denial as a result of a mi...

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 ...

Electronic Medical Records: An Overview of Benefits

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

Medical Practice: How Insurance Changed the Industry

a great deal throughout the 20th century. As the quality of care increased, patients began living longer, and the focus of medicin...

Medical Coding and Billing

considered the field as a whole, and shown that it is a growing profession with significant job possibilities, the student should ...

Nursing as an Integral Part of the VA Medical Center at Asheville

(Waller, 2006). Not only is customer satisfaction rated higher than it is on a general scale, the death rate is somewhat lower as ...

Medical Imaging

(Medical imaging in cancer care, 2006). Medical imagine detects cancer early when it is "at its most curable stage-and, in many ...

Med-Surge Nursing

nurse working on a medical unit at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center. According to Kodet, the only thing ...

Medical Jargon as a Communication Barrier

Bagley looks at the problem as rather simplistic and uses the example that it is just as easy to say that word kidney as it is to ...

Medical Malpractice Statute Of Limitation

for a defined period of time" (Morgan, 2006). The 7 year time period applies when a case could not be discovered because of fraud ...

A Sociological Look at Epilepsy

other words, the symptoms are treatable, but it is sometimes difficult to cope with the stigma and how people look at someone affl...

Should The United States Legalize Medical Marijuana Use?

of such states as Montana (Anonymous, 2005), Rhode Island (Roman, 2006) as well as Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Ne...

U.S. Health System

U.S. healthcare system is dangerous and lethal. That is a fact already confirmed by the data cited from Cortese and Smoldt (2005)....

Informed Consent and Honoring Directives

Accepted practice is to use any routine tool available, which means that a patient whose kidneys have ceased to function will be p...

Medical Use of Marijuana Should Be Legalized

the listeners understanding of the fact that fever is a typical sign of infection, though obviously its not the only one; nor is i...

Proper Disposal of 'Sharps'

concerning the safe disposal of sharps (Diabetes Monitor, 2006). Many healthcare facilities, particularly those serving diabetic p...

Falls and Senior Citizen Patients

that are often incurred as a natural part of the aging process (Wang and Wollin, 2004). These changes include "impaired vision and...

Hypertension and Two Sites from the World Wide Web

mainstream medical establishment itself can produce invalid web sites when its goal of economic profit overrides its goal of most ...

Violating Nursing Protocol

illustrates how she ignored the potential for causing harm when she increased the patients drugs; only after the medication had be...

Policy Proposal: Preventing Assault

you have a potentially volatile atmosphere" (Hughes, 2005). Kowalenko, Walters, Khare, and Compton (2005) surveyed 171 ED p...

Cultural Influences on Medical Care; Indian Hindus

is in charge of all domestic affairs. Younger newly wed couples will often live with one set of parents, even if they are going to...

X-Ray Technician

they need for formulating a diagnosis. The data provided by these technicians allows clinicians to repair broken bones and create ...

Effects of Exercise during Pregnancy

1993, p. 44). This means exactly what it says: the woman has to be able to exercise and talk at the same time without feeling shor...

The Family and Medical Leave Act and the Case of Kroger

their rights under the FLMA and the notice can be verbal (Lexis, 2006). However, under section (d) the employer can also assert th...