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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...

Health Care Industry - Assessing Different Financial Environments

in the western United States (Cleverley, Cleverley, & Song, 2012). Such institutions are typified by the primary goal of "sharehol...

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 ...

Financial Environments in the Health Care Industry

Hospital, a "450 bed not for profit acute care hospital" (Gapenski, 2007). Lastly, of course, because much health care access in...

Pneumonia Care. Article Review

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

A STRATEGIC OVERVIEW OF INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE

Natives (Indian Health Services, 2012). The HIS is the principal federal health care provider and advocate for American Indians, a...

TB Still Claims Millions of Lives

are 53,000 new TB cases in the country each year and about 10,000 die from this disease (UNAMA, 2012). That is a rate of about 38 ...

Diabetic Ketoacidosis, A Case Study

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

Community Health Nursing and Palliative Care

in the overall quality of care delivered by community health nurses (CHNs) is providing end-of-life care that is holistic and cong...

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...

History of Minimum Wage, Supreme Court to Rule on ACA

in the current minimum wage of $7.25, which became effective on July 24, 2009 (WHD, 2011). This history is also characterized by t...

Practicum Outline

computerized or electronic patient records. 1c. To discuss these findings with supervisor/mentor to consider how the information...

Primary Prevention in Diabetic Care

can be easily determined via the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) and by testing fasting plasma glucose (FPG), as these tests ar...

Personal Nursing Philosophy

perspective, is viewed as "the optimal level of ones potential relating to the environment" (Tourville and Ingalls 22). For examp...

Effects of New Health Reform Policy

income (Douglas & Burke, 2010; Kaiser Family Foundation, 2011). Medicare taxes on net investment income will also increase from 0....

An American View of Dying and Death

that many adults have to being placed in nursing care (Ciechanowski et al, 2004). The degree of social isolation along with depen...

Changing Social Views on Dying and Death

of death often occurs without the presence of loved ones and in the absence of any great fanfare. While some cultures create an e...

Hospital Administrator

to gain an executive position immediately upon graduation, possibly in a specialty area such as government relations, medical staf...

Factors Negatively Influencing Continuity of Health Care for Black Males

From a humanistic standpoint, the distribution of health care services should occur in accordance with the principle of equality o...

Practicum Example for a Nursing Course

of falls in elderly chronic patients at that home. 1c. Discuss findings with supervisor/mentor. 1a. The creation of a detailed...

Health Care Needs in Contemporary America

the best in terms of healthcare. There are numerous other echelons of society, however, that receive healthcare in somewhat dimin...

Healthcare Communication

Asynchronous communication is that which does not require the simultaneous direct attention of all involved. It can take the form...

Appalachian Patient: Cultural Considerations For Medical Treatment

proximity and/or behavior man has imposed upon his own species. Social norms play an integral role in both setting and meeting th...

Practical Applications Of Simulations In Nursing Education

"low-fidelity, moderate-fidelity, and high-fidelity" (Sportsman et al., 2009, p. 67). Low-fidelity are introductory, moderate-fide...

Gilded Era/Welfare Reform & The Elderly And Privacy

or people at risk, a handful of businessmen capitalized upon opportunity by what those like Heilbroner et al (1998) believe to be ...

BUSINESS PLAN: DAY CARE CENTER FOR SATANTA HOSPITAL EMPLOYEES

to be operating at a loss in the first year, though plan to make up the differences with grant money, donations and loans. Introd...

Health Care in California Prisons

health problems than the general population," meaning that health care is a priority even before the individual enters the facilit...

Mandatory HIV Testing for Pregnant Women

transmission of this disease (Chow, 2005, p. 38). In other words there is no disagreement over the positive benefits of HIV screen...

Collaboration in a Health Care Setting

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

CCRN Certification/A Program Proposal

grueling exam Id have to pass to earn my CCRN," she bought the necessary study materials, sent in an applications and "hit the boo...