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an employee "at will," in other words, whenever the employer decided. Basically, the doctrine seemed to protect the employer from ...

very wrong with health care in the United States. Presidents have been trying to fix the problem for decades but they are fightin...

nursing home residents, uninsured children and families, people with chronic illnesses...and other underserved groups" (Pomeroy, 2...

doctors, administrators and health care objectives overall lack strategic connection when it comes to major issues. Anderson et a...

system is overloaded and completely unorganized. Managed care doctors are typically overworked, overstressed and underpaid, a com...

justice to the battered victim, it is also to educate the health care industry about how to identify abuse and the steps necessary...

CUSTOMER SERVICE IN HEALTH CARE Customer service is the lifeblood of every business; from the mom and pop operations with 3 emplo...

saved. In essence, to allocate health care is to pick and choose who gets to live in a world where there are not enough resources...

The problem is that the system is broken when it comes to getting appropriate healthcare to the uninsured. Even if Congress passes...

measures of prevention, and determine their effectiveness in a given health care model. An Overview of Tertiary Prevention ...

such as Massachusetts and California, the pros and cons of universal health care and others. Some of the articles reviewed are lis...

outgoing because of the particular medication. And yes, the commercials list the side effects, but usually as an afterthought. Bec...

a machine, as it were, even if the machine is connected to a health-care professional on the other end. Along those lines,...

reveals about diabetic populations. The normal digestive processes of the body turn any form of carbohydrate that is consumed in...

remainder in expanded Health Savings Accounts" (Straight talk, 2008). As for the currently uninsured, McCains plan is to work with...

with more knowledge than they may have had in the past. On the other hand, as they say, too much knowledge can be dangerous. Physi...

2005). It plunged her into a persistent vegetative state and she had lived life in that state for many years (Underwood, Adler & P...

4 pages in length. The writer discusses money's role in driving health care reform and what shifts might take place over the next...

costs ("American Academy of Emergency Management: EMTALA," 2008). In some cases, patients without insurance would be sent to a cou...

had pushed through legislation mandating mandatory medical error reporting (Hosford, 2008). Additionally, and perhaps more importa...

There is no question HMOs are in need of some major improvement efforts. Time and time again, anecdotal accounts of personal ongo...

this indicates, family is incorporated into and valued within the realm of pediatric nursing practice as a factor that is crucial ...

that telemedicine is already having an impact on how healthcare is being delivered (Kohler, 2008). Kohler points out that technolo...

(Maier-Lorentz, 2008). Male doctors, for instance, may not be allowed to touch female Arab patients in certain parts of the body a...

are told what they should do by their physicians. For example, if a patient visits a doctor and due to age parameters, he or she w...

merely decided to retest all of the students (ONeil, 2004). Finally, the third scenario in this case study involves Rosa. Rosa man...

feel as if they are not being given proper treatment if a CNA is assigned to their case instead of an RN (Sullivan, 1998). Thus, t...

with similar expertise but with a slightly different viewpoint; it may be expanding vertically by acquiring a company either above...

resolution skills" (Gardner, 2005). Here, conflict is not seen as a problem or difficult but an opportunity to bring out various p...

is not an expectation based on fact or knowledge, it is based on hope. 2. Clinicians personal and professional values Personal ...