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Nursing Management Issue/Medication Error

systems. The following examination of the problem of medication errors focuses on the context of mental health nursing within the ...

Discrepancies Between Aspirations and Reality in Health Care

group are already marginalized by virtue of having the condition; their aspirations therefore are lower than for others, because "...

The Lasting Effects of Hurricane Katrina

well be lost" (Kalb, Murr and Raymond, 2005). AIDS patients couldnt always get their medication, some patients vanished completely...

Running For A Seat In the U.S. House Of Representatives

will be addressing political concerns as opposed to focusing upon the war being waged between Democrats and Republicans. Th...

Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy - Case Study

problems?] The pharmacology interventions target the patients different health conditions, such as high blood pressure and high c...

Overcrowding in Prisons

fewer than 200,000 inmates (Golembeski and Fullilove, 2005). The Washington Post reported on December 1, 2006 that the U.S. prison...

Issues In Health Care

extent to which the managed care approach has created a complicated, ineffective health care system is both grand and far-reaching...

Issues of Concern to Prison Inmates

a company rather than career corrections officers, they are underpaid, demoralized, and the turnover is high (Friedmann, 1999). Pr...

The Impact Of Hurricane Andrew

scholarly catalogs; journals will include - but not be limited to - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Journal of En...

Hospital Downsizing/Change Initiatives

and simply "more territory to cover overall" (McConnell, 2005, p. 177). In response to this downsizing trend, the best defense tha...

Disease Management/Hypertension

management (DM) concept Disease management (DM) is defined as a "systematic clinical improvement process," which addresses both ...

Protection from Socialized Medicine

of a minimum wage. As will be discussed below, the same principles apply to health care, not because there is any market-level co...

Websites on Nursing Theorists Margaret A. Newman, Betty Neuman, and Virginia Henderson

are not listed on this introductory website. This theory remains relevant to contemporary nursing practice because it is client-c...

THE U.S. AND CANADIAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS

came to the conclusion (interestingly enough) that healthcare outcomes didnt differ based on the public vs. private option. The re...

Progressively Aging Population

the standards of care and service reimbursement. With the growing elderly population and the changes in our familial lifestyles we...

Magic Pulse Limited and Kitomba

competitive advantage. Weaknesses There are also weaknesses, the entry barriers to the business are low; as such there is a weak...

Billing, Coding and Reimbursement in the Health Care Field

the expansion of the industry was based on a business model-getting people well and making a profit doing it-rather than on doing ...

Health Care Three Ways

is relevant here is that the authors note that the goal of a CEO performance appraisal should be to link its results to the execut...

Challenges to Pathology in the NHS

Overall, the provision of pathology services account for approximately 4% of the total NHS budget (Lord Carter, 2006). It is u...

Health Care Needs in Contemporary America

the best in terms of healthcare. There are numerous other echelons of society, however, that receive healthcare in somewhat dimin...

CHALLENGES OF HEALTH CARE IN KENYA

under-five mortality and a decrease in the number of children who are fully vaccinated (Ambrose, 2006). Furthermore, the problem i...

A Case Study Concerning the Move to Electronic Patient Records

The aim is to change the NHS culture to an information culture that will maximise recourses through an appropriate infrastructure....

A Systematic Approach To Managing OHS - BSBOHS401B

a focus on controlling hazards from their source rather than dealing with individual risks, strong inspection procedures and rigor...

Improving Health Care Quality Through Public Reporting and a Reward System

Leapfrog Group, 2009). That report made the astounding observation that more deaths (some 98,000) result from preventable mistake...

The Major Problems of the U.S. Health Care System

agony? Medicine was not always the assembly line it is today. According to Pescosolido and Boyer, there were three events that ch...

The Major Problems Facing the U.S. Health Care System

agony? Medicine was not always the assembly line it is today. According to Pescosolido and Boyer, there were three events that ch...

Expanding Primary Care at Blackwell Health System

from large teaching hospitals, leaving them with the more seriously ill patients, whose care also is the most costly (Johnson and ...

Culturally Competent Care/Duke University Health System

could be applied towards unmet standards. Culturally competent care at Duke University Health System It has been determined by ...

Tax Research Issue

not taking title, or in which he has no equity" (Synopsis of IRC Section 162, 2006). Nowhere does the IRC provide any condi...

A HOSPITAL HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM

Types of medical data and information records relevant to this project. The importance of uniform terminology, coding and...