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HMOs and Primary Care Physicians

In ten pages this paper discusses PCPs in terms of disadvantages associated with primary care physicians being used as gatekeepers...

Primary Care Screening Tool

In seven pages this paper examines an alcohol abuse screening too, the AUDIT, which consists of 10 questions and how it can be cut...

Managed Care and Medical Ethics

In forty five pages this research study examines medical ethics in the managed care organization environment. Thirty sources are ...

A Book Review of Cerebral Palsy and Irish Medical Care in the 1930's

In 3 pages ‘My Left Foot' by Christy Brown is reviewed and examines the story of how a man's struggles with severe paralysis...

Asthma Education Program Creation

In eight pages an asthma education program that will address both patient and family needs in terms of empowerment and information...

Prospective Payment System and Diagnosis Related Groups

In five pages the increasing costs of U.S. medical care is the focus of this paper that discusses diagnosis related groups and a p...

Respiratory Care Uses of Nitric Oxide

In twelve pages this paper assesses the benefits and complications of inhaling nitric oxide for pulmonary and vascular purposes. ...

Exercise and Conservative Care of Rotator Cuff Injuries

In five pages this paper examines exercise programs in a rotator cuff injury conservative care approach. Five sources are cited i...

Changing Views on Caring for the Mentally Ill

The treatment of the mentally ill has changed drastically since the asylums of the 19th century. This paper examines the historic...

Foster Care Changes

affects them behaviorally, and what the long-term consequences of their environments is going to be; however, as someone once said...

Working Parents and the Impact on Children

-- they moved to the suburbs and the mother is only going to work part-time while the children are in school. They are lucky becau...

Sociological Issues Regarding Primary versus Secondary Child Care and Working, Single Mothers

In six pages this paper examines the shift from primary to secondary child care necessitated by working mothers in society, with m...

Hospital Care That is Family Centered

In five pages a hospital environment is considered in a discussion of a family centered care approach with pediatric nursing being...

Examination of Charity Care

In twelve pages the writer draws upon personal experience as an NJ State Legislature's 20th District intern to discuss charity car...

Diabetes in Adolescence

between cases at the time of diagnosis (Newmark and Anhalt, 2007). Type 1 diabetes is typically due to a "lack of insulin producti...

Postpartum Doula Care

experience" in previous eras (Abramson, 2004, p. 34). This doula program recruits doulas from the community being served. The mode...

Nursing Leadership, Advocacy & Responsibilities

Leadership and management while related are two distinctively different concepts. Leadership can be discerned from simply manageme...

The Psychological Impact of Separation from their Parents on Foster Children

happening (Simms, Dubowitz and Szilagyi, 2000). Even though each case if different, there are several common reactions when chil...

Chronic Kidney Disease & HP 2010

this condition is unknown (CKD, 2005). The challenge facing this focus area of HP 2010 is to establish effective programs that wil...

Organisational Culture; A Case Study

and ever changing (Trice and Beyer, 1993). Organisational culture embodies what is and is not accepted within an organisation in t...

Learning Diabetes Self-care

of diabetes care, including blood/glucose monitoring, food intake monitoring, exercise monitoring, and insulin administration. Be...

Nursing Care for Hypertension

defined as a systolic blood pressure of greater than or equal to 140 mm/Hg) was linked most commonly to individuals whoa re overwe...

Improving Management at Shannondale

economic positions (McGinn and Murr, 2006). All of this development in the past several years has led to a restatement of Shannon...

The Importance of Hope in Palliative Care

are fatigued often have trouble dealing successfully with their illness. In this article Benzein and Berg note that "Hope, hopeles...

Closeness and Distance: A Way of Handling Difficult Situations in Daily Care

the strategies that nurses are currently using to address these types of difficult situations. The qualitative approach utilize...

Mexican-American Women/Access to Care

A 5 page research paper. A previous research paper on this topic (khmexamh) discussed mentally ill homeless Mexican American women...

MEDICAL CARE, HIPPA REGULATIONS, COBRA AND OTHER CHALLENGES

HIPAA is actually protecting patients privacy and confidentiality (McBride, 2008). Granted, the respondents were of a particular s...

Patients’ Bill of Rights

is designed to ensure that "Patients have access to needed care" and that healthcare providers are "free to practice medicine with...

Caring and the Nurse Practitioner

now regarded as a crucial and defining component of nursing, as caring defines "nursings unique area of practice and provides dire...

Self-Care Task Analysis

reflecting exactly what exceptional children go through in the classroom. The first step in making a peanut butter and jelly sand...