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group 85 years and older is now the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population (Dramatic changes, 2006). Furthermore, accordin...
Florida cancer center, one can successfully examine how organizational structure and governance, as well as an organizations cultu...
many professionals feel is attached to a strong desire to do the right thing. When organizations are engaging in unethical practic...
one technologically based communication modality-e-mail, a web-based forum, and so forth- involving patients and health care provi...
what actions are morally right, and which are morally wrong. As such, it is an area of study with a great deal of ambiguity. There...
past century has been the fabled "Unified Field Theory", the theoretical perspective that unifies all scientific disciplines such ...
is the question of whether or not health care is a right common to all citizens or a privilege. Both sides of the issue concern th...
purposes of this example, one might consider Southwest General Hospital in San Antonio, Texas. This facility makes for a good exam...
recently become one of the most controversial and important of all political discussions. Having dominated the debates surrounding...
U.S. government (The Malcolm, 2002). Originally a national award for manufacturing industries, the award was expanded to include h...
process is made more difficult by cultural and linguistic barriers (Murty, 2002). These women frequently bear the brunt of fulfill...
issues along a continuum of health and good health is defined as a "state of complete physical, mental and social well-being" (Ada...
its critics -- has been a goal of the U.S. government for many, many years and, for the most part, has had the support of most of ...
responsible for most health care expenditures, merely because of their age and the increased need for direct care with advancing a...
the problem and to eliminate it where possible. Nester (1998) quantifies the extent of the problem relating that an estimated 1,2...
How governments accomplish this purpose, of course, varies considerably. In Great Britain, the government via the National Health...
providers fees be "normal and customary," and those care providers who have attempted to set lower fees for those without any safe...
back for treatment and who would be left behind and not treated. In the 1800s, unless a patient was dying those in the emergency r...
a problem that is difficult to define adequately. There is much competition in the health field, and in the mental health field t...
scientific investigation and treatment of trauma and/or death of victims of abuse, violence, criminal activity, and traumatic acci...
goes way beyond the paradigm of nursing as simply a "handmaiden" to physicians. The nursing professional is required to know virtu...
government and distort the issues by using unethical practices. Their dealings with government officials are sometimes damaging t...
at least not accessing the system as much as they could. For example, it was reported in BMJ that a telephone healthcare service o...
at where it was spent in 1997 20.7% was spent on inpatient care, 25.6 on out-patient care and 14% on pharmaceuticals (Anonymous, 2...
in the world where health care is able to benefit from the best and the latest technologies (Improving Quality in a Changing Healt...
Security system and others had begun to focus on the idea of a program aimed at insuring Social Security beneficiaries" (Anonymous...
characteristics of the group, interpersonal relationships within the group and the characteristics of the culture. The leader must...
into a receiving country, this population has the same entitlement to social benefits - such as health care - as the native popula...
(HMOs), the explosive growth of Medicare and Medicare abuses and the resulting "crackdown" on Medicare policies and procedures. T...
for further self-harm to occur. Pembrooke and Smith recommend, for example, that triage staff assume that even minor injuries repr...