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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...

Refusal of Care: The Ethical Dimensions

refers to instances in which patients who have been admitted to a health care facility decide to refuse treatment from doctors (Lo...

Healthcare Executives and Decision Making Ethics

as those offered by the American College of Healthcare Executives. The healthcare assessment they offer allows the respondent to r...

The Impact of Censorship on Art in South Park's "Episode 201"

cartoon South Park has become infamous due to the circumstances surrounding its censorship. The episode was quite heavily censored...

Dementia Case

are different medications Mrs. N could take for depression, if she is depressed. There is no diagnosis to that effect. It is likel...

Patient’s Possessions & Cultural Competency

arts, beliefs, values, customs, lifeways and all other products of human work and thought..." (Purnell, 2005, p. 7). It is the eth...

Formulating Nursing Theory

verifies old knowledge (Wilkerson, 1998). As this suggests, the continuation of scholarly advances in the development of nursing t...

Refusal of Palliative Care/Bioethics

this incident may have contributed to her divorce. It is also true that her mother has had a problem with alcoholism for over twen...

Wound Closure

After ensuring that the wound is clean and dry, align the wound edges and place strips on either side, without placing them under ...

Statistics in Surgical ICU

within institutions where manual charting of ventilators settings is performed well, "automatic data collection can eliminate dela...

Iatrogenic Infection

This 14 page paper looks at the issue of iatrogenic infection and how a hospital may undertake an innovation to reduce the occurre...

California Should Encourage More Adoptions

to adopt white infants, which, among other things, gives the lie to the myth that Americans love children. If they did, all childr...

Quality within Australian Nursing

quality and safety for the care they can expect to receive from nurses and midwives and other health professionals are the same" (...

Baltimore Child Protective Services

specific, desired goals, by employing combination of efforts that support, direct and utilize authority (DHR). The CPS case worker...

Care Management and the Empowerment of Independent Living

More importantly, the framework as it developed with cooperation between different authorities under way that services needed to b...

Polarity Management

are problems, the use of critical thinking models or other problem solving tool will help to find an effective resolution. The pro...

Nursing Shortage & Patient Safety

established that nurses are often involved in the "timely identification of complications," which, if acted upon swiftly, prevent ...

Roy’s Adaptation Model & Cardiac Care

As described by Araich (2001), four nursing strategies effectively summarize how a critical care nurse can use the RAM to aid a ca...

Starting a Nursery in Jeddah

and tuition for the older children. The plan will require a new building that will be specifically designed for its purpose aimed ...

Colostomy, Stoma and Peristoma Care

be optimized: "The whole patient, should be assessed and physical, mental and social factors taken...

Dynamics of A Group Meeting To Develop a Health Plan

to undertake this task in order to attain the desire goal, this needs input for all the members of the group. The goal is generall...

An Abstract & Various Assessment Instruments

testing instrument in the United States (Nurse and Sperry, 2004). First developed by Starke Hathaway and Charnley McKinley in 194...

Healthcare Profile of London SW3

areas will have different needs, this will be indicated by a number of factors, the area itself and the features as well as the ch...

Case Management and Managed Care

the caregiver needs other information, information that is clinical "for patients or covered members from all segments of integrat...

Long Term Care/Medicare Reform

majority, if not all, Medicare part D plans will offer incentives for participants to choose generic drugs. It is believed that "g...

Leininger's Culture Care Nursing Theory

caring; 2. every human culture has lay (generic, folk or indigenous) care knowledge and practices and usually some professional ca...

Collective School Perspective

at the past and the philosophies that have created the present. Resnick and Hall (1998) point out that the current educational s...

Parental Involvement in Caring for Hospitalized Children

a transition where parental involvement in hospitalization has changed. In the past, parents had been expected to leave the hospi...

Vets with PTSD

with sudden flashbacks intruding on thoughts (Fagan and Freme, 2004). Other symptoms include: an exaggerated startle reflex, sleep...

End Of Life Care And The Importance Of Advance Directives

is why it is sometimes difficult to understand the humane element of living wills and DNRs. Until one has been in the place of an...