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Recent Economic Effects on Home Health

In 2001, health care spending as a percentage of GDP was 14.1 percent, or $5,035 per capita (Levit, Smith, Cowan, Lazenby, Senseni...

Real-Time Information in the Hospital Setting

real-time applications, patient records are updated instantly as information is added to them. Thus the physician making rounds h...

Hospital Information Systems

interfaces with the a new computerized patient order entry system. Therapists use tablets at the patient bedside, which enhances m...

Rules of Evidence Case Study Analysis

testimony but it is likely that the judge will let it in. One point is that if by the time the trial rolls around, the robberies a...

Ethical Dilemma/Canadian Nursing Practice

individual, the eight values of the CNA Code provide a framework for guidance regarding nursing behavior. The Code states that the...

Online Education/Professional Development

by trying things out)...reflective learners (learn by thinking things through, working alone) 5. sequential learners (linear, orde...

Wrongful Conviction

- if not utterly unsettling - accounts with that of the Salem witch trials where personal agenda was the sole motivation that fuel...

Healthcare Administration/Conflict & Stress

inadequacies in the standard of patient care due to a clinician refusing "to consult the on call physician or group" due to a cont...

HR Employee Benefits and the Impact of Rising Employer Costs

15.4% in 2003/4 (Anonymous, 2004). The approach has been to look for new ways of satisfying the same needs, such as the use of gen...

Medical Informatics

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

DNA in Investigations and as Evidence

from environmental exposure (Isenberg, 2002). DNA in investigations and as evidence When DNA evidence first appeared in courts, ...

Comparing Perspectives Presented in the Printed Media

equivalent factors, such as the costs. The presentation on the Business Week web page is equally bland, the advertising that takes...

OBAMA HEALTHCARE EDITORIAL - BOSTON GLOBE

might seem strong at the outset; after all, enough people are blaming the Massachusetts plan for soaking the taxpayer, but this ed...

Correcting Flawed Surgery Sites and Wrong Site Amputations

hospitals are not required to report mistakes that have been made to any sort of overseeing agency (Inskeep and Neighmond, 2004). ...

AN OVERVIEW OF PRESIDENT OBAMA'S HEALTH CARE REFORM

FY Budget overview for health care reform including Reduction of long-term growth of health care costs being saddled by bus...

Reforming Healthcare in American and Why it is Important

$7,000 yearly healthcare expenses (Snow, 2009, p. 275). In their article entitled "Putting Healing into Healthcare Reform: Will P...

Political Processes and Healthcare Regulations

should be political informed by drawing on a variety of sources for information; vote for the candidates and/or ballot issues that...

Quality Indicators and Nurse/Patient Ratios

literature and also "analysis of ICD-9-CM codes," which were reviewed by a "clinician panel," offering specific IQs that address i...

HEALTHCARE, FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING

a hospital decides its going to expand its capacity, the management understands it is risking capital to add more beds. But its do...

Overview of the Rules of Evidence

good example of why some evidence is not permitted. If a defendant had committed a crime in the past, and the trial is for a simil...

Application of Leadership Theory II

I replied that I could develop a program with her supervision, that nurses were more interested in furthering their training than ...

Conway Medical Center's Economic Forecast

Also on hospital property is an 88-bed nursing center that the hospital also owns and operates. Conway Medical Center provides ge...

Shands Healthcare Long Term Strategy Establishment

provide Shands with an advantage over its direct competitors. * The pod plan has the potential of significantly increasing capacit...

International Healthcare and the Impact of Technology

correct medications, and the list goes on and on (Bartholomew and Curtis, 2004). McEachern (2004) reports that technologically adv...

Issues of Global Threats and Demographics Involving Healthcare

influenza can pose a severe health risk for older members of a community. This means that not only has there been the providing of...

Terminal Patients and Hospice Healthcare

we all must personally face. Dealing with the death of a loved one, however, can be considerably more difficult than facing the f...

Economics and Health Care

can add to scarcity, such as time and income (Schenk, 2004). Furthermore, resources are limited, such as manpower, machinery and n...

Minority Healthcare Disparities

U.S. health care system, shares some of the biases of that system (Eichner and Vladeck, 2005, p. 365). Instead of helping, Medica...

Professional Nursing Dimensions

ethnic distribution of the population in Paramus: White Non-Hispanic (75.5%) Hispanic (4.9%) Korean (4.8%) Asian Indian (4.5%...