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concern for hospital executives is the fact that as managed care contracts increase, hospital marketing orientation decreases. Ma...

positive patient response. The authors contended that tight control of blood glucose reduces the risk of microvascular and macrov...

HIV-positive nurses being a threat to patients and other health care workers. Research clearly supports the reality of the situat...

?19a-490, Connecticut Department of Public Health Code ?19-13-D105 and Residential care homes ?19-13-D-6 (National Academy for Sta...

change and its rationale (which was based on the results of empirical research), implemented the change and then "supported the c...

quality of care is approached, while at the same time find ways to reduce costs. It has also been noted that socialized health ca...

This research team selected homeless adolescents as the focus for their study. While, in general, the concept that informed parent...

this were not a political issue then the attention would be focused elsewhere, also that with increasing costs in healthcare the n...

escalate into World War III; if he did nothing or offered a weak response, the balance of power would clearly shift in the directi...

the question of what effect an aging nursing work force has on American healthcare in general. First and foremost, the aging of ...

In five pages this research paper discusses quality care standard maintenance and the role played by nurse managers in sustaining ...

twentieth century, with accusations that it has failed to live up to the demands placed upon it by the ever-growing population, ef...

can no longer follow this model is because medical technology can now greatly prolong life-perhaps make it too long. People now ro...

In addition to these operational benefits, the state in which databases exist today enable organizations to use the data contained...

reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...

receiving additional income for having patients who use less services. As Stone (1997) indicates, she received a healthy bonus che...

advance at the time, but it created the scenario in which those receiving health care were not those paying for health care. As c...

it actually created more problems than it solved? An Overview of Fragmentation Once upon a time, medicine was a fairly str...

that is, whether it will spread (metastasize) and what symptoms that it is likely to cause (Cancer diagnosis, 2005). The term "sec...

images represent some aspect of nursing? Examination of this question shows that two of these images are particularly helpful in d...

In three pages this research paper discusses how humor can be a modality that assists nurses in patient care as well as self care....

In most states, regulations concerning private managed care companies and programs are put forth primarily by the states insurance...

prepared for this role" (McKenna, 1997, p. 87). Perhaps most significant of all was Florence Nightingales belief that env...

it (the bourgeoisie) (Tucker, p. 472). Furthermore, the bourgeoisie "cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instrume...

regulation has been broadly down controlled by the integrity of medical practitioners. This model was one which was mainly self-re...

educational providers. Todays workplace is characterized by an incontestable shortage of appropriately trained workers. Wh...

control in the long term care setting. Avoidance of infection is preferable over the need for cure, and also has the effect of in...

Today, the theories of Orem, Roy, Neuman, Rogers, King, and others seem to be more popular than older theories such as those of Fl...

some measures and assessments does not mean that it gains no attention at all, however. The World Health Organization (WHO) repor...

their wishes for the patients care. Every nursing home resident has a right to such a plan by law (Stern), and it does not only p...