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Social Security, Health Care Reform, and Public Policy

success; yet each time they faced defeat. The evolution of these efforts and the reasons for their failure make for an intriguing...

A History of Children In Mental Health Facilities

with them to the first American Colonies, and mostly served as a model as to who would provide what services in the early, fledgli...

Forensic Mental Health Setting and Nursing Care

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

Nurse Role Definition

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

Reform and Ethics As They Relate to Nursing Home Care

or state agencies may seek and implement studies. II. Nursing Home Care for the Elderly Whenever nursing home care is an...

Canadian Women Immigrants and Health Care

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

Canada's Immigrant Women, Prenatal and Postnatal Health Care

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

Enteric Feeds and Health Organization Policy

How governments accomplish this purpose, of course, varies considerably. In Great Britain, the government via the National Health...

Overview of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award

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

Health Care and Economics Principles

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

Developments In Forensic Nursing

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

Health Care and Special Interest Groups

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

Health Care Crisis and Economics

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

Controversy Regarding the Elderly and Prescription Drug Coverage

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

Health Care and Situational Leadership

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

Nursing Liability and Access to Health Care by the Poor in Texas

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

Triage and its Medical and Military History

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...

President John F. Kennedy's 1963 Community Mental Health Law

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

Health Care and Elasticity of Demand

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

Community Health Care Nursing and Child Abuse Interventions

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

A Look at Medicaid Reform

the context of health care reform (Rudowitz, 2010). The new expansion will mean increases in eligibility, and increases in federal...

Hand Hygiene Programs and Health Care Organization

structure is never easy, except for at the very formation of that organization. To come into a pre-existing organizational environ...

U.S. Refugee Population, Health Policy Treatment, Prevention, and Care Services

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

Health Care and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

of business entities engaging in different types of accounting for a variety of purposes. While this diversity is a great motivati...

Heathcare Present and Future Concerns

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

Nursing Cultural Competence

and Cultural Competency in Health Care: An Australian Study by Megan-Jane Johnstone and Olga Kanitsaki. * Abstract; The authors p...

Break-Even Analysis and DRG

is that earning money in a business isnt always as simple as moving as much product as possible. All sales entail some degree of c...

The Health Care Industry and Information Technologies

field and industry out there it is important for organizations and businesses to keep up to date. It is surprising that the health...

Federal Healthcare Regulation: An Examination of the Insufficiencies

is the question of whether or not health care is a right common to all citizens or a privilege. Both sides of the issue concern th...

Health Care Industry Differentiation Strategies

high-competition field is positioning. By utilizing positioning appropriately, in conjunction with competitor and demographic rese...