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Essays 811 - 840
goes way beyond the paradigm of nursing as simply a "handmaiden" to physicians. The nursing professional is required to know virtu...
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...
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 ...
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...
(HMOs), the explosive growth of Medicare and Medicare abuses and the resulting "crackdown" on Medicare policies and procedures. T...
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...
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...
of the true nature of their illnesses. While keeping such facts from the patients may be considered merciful it does, at times, en...
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...
for further self-harm to occur. Pembrooke and Smith recommend, for example, that triage staff assume that even minor injuries repr...
since 1947. The healthcare system is actually run by "its 10 provinces and three territories, but is governed by federal guideline...
people who are uninsured, while many more are underinsured (Reports Say Millions Getting Second-Class Health Care Treatment, 2003)...
The interplay of health issues with social policies is credited as being one of the reasons why the health indices in these countr...
of all of these organizations is to help provide quality behavioral health care while containing costs for its members. APS...
medical education, it changed all aspects of medical care and the relationships that exist between physician and patient (pp. 395)...
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...
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...