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As a socially committed citizen who addresses health needs of the local, national, and global community, nursing will forever be h...

sense that it is actively intended to cause harm, but negligence occurs when it is established that any reasonable person would ha...

with advancing age. Care providers cannot set lower fees for uninsured individuals and then penalize the insured and their insure...

not want his father informed), presenting a rationale for signing a health care proxy becomes extremely problematic. Guidelines us...

protection. It seems that the purpose of the old system was typical as the facility needed communications. However, in health care...

of the true nature of their illnesses. While keeping such facts from the patients may be considered merciful it does, at times, en...

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...

are, of course, special considerations which go into treating the elderly. We know, for example, that the elderly often experienc...

medical education, it changed all aspects of medical care and the relationships that exist between physician and patient (pp. 395)...

state of the art technology. Their lives will be saved above the others. It is somewhat like the scenario when the Titanic went do...

diagnosing it. It is not as if depression is difficult to diagnose. What is difficult is getting clients into facilities and to ad...

policies in regard to the PSDA. I have been fortunate in that I was chosen to be a member of that team. Consequently, I have at ...

paralleled by the employers duty towards the worker. Legal accountability is that which is delineated by the civil and criminal la...

for further self-harm to occur. Pembrooke and Smith recommend, for example, that triage staff assume that even minor injuries repr...

Medicine has shifted from the Cartesian way of viewing illness, injury and disease as components of a machine-like body to one whi...

dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...

Most of those insured by third-party payers have had all or part of their healthcare premiums paid by employers. Competitive pres...

without mentioning their love affair with olive oil, and the esteem which this precious ingredient holds in this culture (Miller, ...

health of the individual and to their success in recuperation. The Association for Spirit at Work is comprised of medical profess...

goals and interventions which are compatible with those identified in "Healthy People 2010". Eight assessment parameters will be ...

resolve. Our nations seniors are responsible for most health care expenditures, merely because of their age and the increased nee...

who were in need of an epidural block in order to anesthetize the severe birth-related pain. Unable to hand over the several hund...

has slowly been creeping into Canadian health care as private expenses such as prescription drugs and homecare continue to cost Ca...

patients, cleaning patients up, changing the beds for patients, helping patients go to the bathroom, and many other simple, but ne...

the same holds true about the theories with which these people are treated. In the United Kingdom, nurses specializing in forensi...

from an advanced practice nurse. Patients value the nurse practitioner (NP) as a trustworthy source of medical information that a...

services. It was a clear presumption that womens contributions -- no matter how physically or mentally trying -- did not carry an...

have been seen as requiring restructuring within the health service. For example, the public research which was conducted in the e...

and sustaining without yielding, they contend that bearing is a reaction which is more passive than coping but an activity which p...