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scientific investigation and treatment of trauma and/or death of victims of abuse, violence, criminal activity, and traumatic acci...

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

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

One of the well known cases that outlines the duties and responsibilities of directors is that of Re Brazilian Rubber Plantation a...

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...

U.S. government (The Malcolm, 2002). Originally a national award for manufacturing industries, the award was expanded to include h...

at regular prices, but interest increases when the store drops the price from $50 to $5. In other words, demand increases when pr...

providers fees be "normal and customary," and those care providers who have attempted to set lower fees for those without any safe...

process is made more difficult by cultural and linguistic barriers (Murty, 2002). These women frequently bear the brunt of fulfill...

issues along a continuum of health and good health is defined as a "state of complete physical, mental and social well-being" (Ada...

its critics -- has been a goal of the U.S. government for many, many years and, for the most part, has had the support of most of ...

responsible for most health care expenditures, merely because of their age and the increased need for direct care with advancing a...

the problem and to eliminate it where possible. Nester (1998) quantifies the extent of the problem relating that an estimated 1,2...

goes way beyond the paradigm of nursing as simply a "handmaiden" to physicians. The nursing professional is required to know virtu...

back for treatment and who would be left behind and not treated. In the 1800s, unless a patient was dying those in the emergency r...

a problem that is difficult to define adequately. There is much competition in the health field, and in the mental health field t...

Hence, one sees in this example that patients and physicians demand the newest and latest technologies but many insurance companie...

government and distort the issues by using unethical practices. Their dealings with government officials are sometimes damaging t...

at least not accessing the system as much as they could. For example, it was reported in BMJ that a telephone healthcare service o...

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...

Security system and others had begun to focus on the idea of a program aimed at insuring Social Security beneficiaries" (Anonymous...

characteristics of the group, interpersonal relationships within the group and the characteristics of the culture. The leader must...

(Sullivan, 2000). His regular doctor did not send him to the hospital, he sent Joseph to a nursing home with instructions to call ...

into a receiving country, this population has the same entitlement to social benefits - such as health care - as the native popula...

(HMOs), the explosive growth of Medicare and Medicare abuses and the resulting "crackdown" on Medicare policies and procedures. T...

offset incoming pathogens (Anonymous, 1996). Not surprisingly, the "erosion of the public health infrastructure" of the World Hea...

century will be healthier, longer and enriched for more people than ever before. Premature deaths, those that occur prior to age 5...

to provide a structure for keeping the peace. The same is true for international law, the rules of a classroom or the advice of a...