SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Health Care Cost Reduction

Essays 1351 - 1380

Implementing Care Following Leininger’s Theory

meals to all Orthodox Jewish patients should be investigated by hospital administrators if they are not already in place. Furtherm...

Pressure Ulcers/Changing Care

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

Dieting

days and will lose between two and seven pounds. However, as soon as the client goes back to eating normally, all of the weight is...

Peplau and Orem/Core Concepts

begins with "orientation," which is a period in which the nurse and the patient become acquainted. The relationship then proceeds ...

Managed Care, HMOs & Evolution over Last Decade

the rate of such hospital mergers. One of these trends was the "phenomenon of Columbia/HCA," a for-profit hospital system that man...

Case Study : Mt McKenzie Winery

to increase sales even more outside the country, emphasizing both the U.S. and Britain first and then, considering other European ...

The Need For Consistent And Predictable Care

birth, it is critical to interact with the infant, to touch and cuddle and talk with the infant, to provide a safe and nurturing e...

Psychiatric Nursing Alternatives

they visited, and some tended to visit fairly frequently (Demling et al, 2002). Patients in general were very positive about thei...

Debate on Reduction of Fossil Fuels

2005). -- Noncompliant companies would be fined (Skinner, 2005). --The aim of one program would be to create cars that could use ...

Critical Modality of Humor

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

Laws and Drugs

background, the points which Gray (2001) makes are surprising to say the least. Gray (2001) sees the war we as a society are wagi...

Kolcaba and Holistic Care

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

Exercise as a Counter for Stress

The individual experiences a stress response that causes muscles to tense. The stimulus ends and so the individuals muscles cease...

Aircraft Safety and Stress

and Ivancevich (1998) define stress as being an: "adaptive response, moderated by individual...

Concern Over Dust Allergies

D. farinae, Euroglyphus maynei, and numerous other species) are anything but unimpressive (Weber, 2001)! They are, in fact, quite...

Reduction of Harm and Attitudes of Social Workers

the fact that there is not a single definition of harm reduction that can be applied in every situation, and harm reduction progra...

Recidivism and Drug Treatment

to the threats to internal validity are an important component of any research design. The first threat to internal validity is...

Derivatives and Airline Risk Management

Mintzberg et al, 1998). Successful and effective risk management may even be the source of a competitive advantage (Rose, 2001, P...

Overview of Critical Care Nurse Practitioner

a specialized body of knowledge, skills and experience that enables these nurses to offer a high standard of care to critically il...

Dorothea Orem and Florence Nightingale on Nursing Theories, Beliefs, and Values

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

Cancer Patients and Nursing

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

History, Etiology, and Treatment of Antibiotic Resistance

could be used therapeutically both in the treatment of his own diseases and in those of the plants and animals he found important....

Palliative Care and the Theory of Dorothea Orem

patient to re-establish the self-care capacity. Orems model defines a "self-care deficit" as when a patients condition interferes ...

Overview of a Hospital's Reduced Rate Prescription Drug Plan

to bring a new drug to market, and the developer has patent protection only for relatively few years. To recoup its investment in...

A Case Study of the Use of Collaborative Processes for a Woman with Multiple Comorbidities

points out that patients with comorbidities have additional needs that serve to increase the complexity of care. Various models of...

Quality Assurance and Nursing Management

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

The Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

goals and limitations. The greenhouse effect, that natural regulator of the earths climate, has been altered by the additio...

Substance Abusers and Harm Reduction Attitudes

media campaign and treatment received the least (32 percent), (Drug Policy Foundation [DPF], 2000; ONDCP, 2000). A RAND study indi...

Recommendations to Address the Issue of Airport Delays

American Airlines increased their flights by 18 percent to 270 flights daily (Fernandez, 2005). The average on-time arrivals at al...