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Impact of Managed Care

that the government did not intend when establishing Medicare in the 1960s. At present, Medicare virtually rules all of Ame...

Nursing and the Interaction Between Theory, Research, and Practice

authors state that research "and theory are key underpinnings that guide safe, effective, and comprehensive" (p. 35) practice. As...

Real-Time Information in the Hospital Setting

real-time applications, patient records are updated instantly as information is added to them. Thus the physician making rounds h...

Hospital Information Systems

interfaces with the a new computerized patient order entry system. Therapists use tablets at the patient bedside, which enhances m...

DUTIES OF A REGISTERED NURSE AT KINDRED HOSPITAL

health screening or immunization clinics and blood drives (Registered Nurses, 2010). Kin a hospital setting, RNs are known ...

Cultural Competency/Hispanic Population

six out of every ten Hispanics in the US identify themselves as being of Mexican origin (PHC, 2009). Nine of the other ten largest...

Defending the New Healthcare Reform Law

individual and small-group insurance will operate in a manner similar to large-group coverage by pooling risks (Iglehart, 2010). I...

A Case Study in Professional Responsibility

incomplete, they have not been tested for drugs and the training room that he had counted on using in their orientation is booked ...

Wit & Palliative Care

also a former student of Vivians is now in the rather awkward position of also being one of her doctors, as he is an intern and re...

Preventive Strategies, Cost Containment, and Managed Care

stability, while the goal of tertiary prevention "is to help the patient return to wellness following treatment" (Torakis and Smig...

Persistent Vegetative State Patients and Ethical Decision Making

the balloon, and certain gestures, were definite responses to the environment and evidence of consciousness, but the doctors disag...

Nursing and Kangaroo Care

article, "Mother-Infant Skin-to-Skin Contact (Kangaroo Care)," kangaroo care offers the parents the only opportunity to engage in ...

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...

A Review of Elderly Care Literature

2006, pp. 669-683). Based on this, the researchers found that hip fractures were greatly reduced in the women taking the supplemen...

Addressing a PICO issue with a Hospice Patient

inflammation and improve appetite (Hawthorn, 2010). Mary was particularly disturbed by the malodor caused the malignant lesion,...

An Article Detailing Hypertension and its Treatment

In the article titled "Five steps to more effective treatment of hypertension in primary care" author Margaret Allen...

Nursing-Sensitive Outcome Indicators

nursing quality of care" (Hart, et al, 2006, p. 256). These indicators specifically indicate that complications, such as pressure ...

The Ethical Problem of Child Labor

that the "job" of childhood is to go to school and learn the skills and knowledge that will prepare them for the working world the...

Comparing Mission and Philosophy Statements in regards to Nursing

from those of education- focused institutions, when the institution in question is a nursing school, there are similarities, as we...

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...

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...

The Affordable Care Act, Pro and Con

president has done in decades; he passed a bill that starts reforming the health care system in the United States. The new bill, w...

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...

Control and Care in a Social Work Setting

workers should not be the secular priests in the church of individual repair; they should be the caretakers of the conscience of t...

Early Childhood Education Professionals and an Administrative Training Literature Review

in the "people" business. Nothing could be further from the truth or more damaging to the organization. Managing non-profit and se...

Critique of Bohomol, Ramos and D'Innocenzo (2009)

of a research article is "an impersonal evaluation of the strengths and limitations of the research being reviewed" (Coughlan, Cro...

Andre DuBus' 1991 'Killings'

in the story where a judgment is made concerning the validity of revenge. The argument is made that a killing will not restore ...

Considerations Involving Medical Data

In five pages this paper examines the problems posed by electronic medical information and the assistance offered by SISTeM in ter...

A Proposal for a Child Care Center

and security, as well as the positive aspects of learning through mistakes; the development of cognitive skills - including proble...