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Essays 541 - 570

AN OVERVIEW OF PRESIDENT OBAMA'S HEALTH CARE REFORM

FY Budget overview for health care reform including Reduction of long-term growth of health care costs being saddled by bus...

Medical Informatics

four major informatics theories and a discussion of the Data, Information and Knowledge (DIK) model. This is followed by an overvi...

Comparing Perspectives Presented in the Printed Media

equivalent factors, such as the costs. The presentation on the Business Week web page is equally bland, the advertising that takes...

OBAMA HEALTHCARE EDITORIAL - BOSTON GLOBE

might seem strong at the outset; after all, enough people are blaming the Massachusetts plan for soaking the taxpayer, but this ed...

Kouzes and Posner and Health Care

and they have their error down to just about zero (Rona 2005, p. 87). Different studies indicate that hospitals have about a 97.1...

National Health Care, Choice, and Competition

The second consideration that many dont make, however, regarding the public option is that it would also create competition betwee...

Assessing Gaps in Service

method of evaluation identifies different measures where there may be a gap between the level of service expected and that gained....

Government's Sights on Healthcare Insurance

good first step would be with torte reform so that physicians are not required to order expensive and often unnecessary tests for ...

Healthcare Administration Ethics

cultural understanding. In a study conducted by Rawwas and Isakson on academic cheating, the student-participants "tend to blame...

Reforming Healthcare by Troubleshooting Ethical Problems

in other developed countries, they are essentially paying twice as much for their services, but not receiving comparable care qual...

Successful Project Management

local health authority, local health care providers, including the health visitors who will be incorporating visits to the SureSta...

Online Education/Professional Development

by trying things out)...reflective learners (learn by thinking things through, working alone) 5. sequential learners (linear, orde...

Ethical Dilemma/Canadian Nursing Practice

individual, the eight values of the CNA Code provide a framework for guidance regarding nursing behavior. The Code states that the...

TQM in the Hospital Setting

hospital setting but wrote, "The lack of empirical research fails to provide support to claims that TQM reconciles trade-offs betw...

Real-Time Information in the Hospital Setting

real-time applications, patient records are updated instantly as information is added to them. Thus the physician making rounds h...

Hospital Information Systems

interfaces with the a new computerized patient order entry system. Therapists use tablets at the patient bedside, which enhances m...

Recent Economic Effects on Home Health

In 2001, health care spending as a percentage of GDP was 14.1 percent, or $5,035 per capita (Levit, Smith, Cowan, Lazenby, Senseni...

Health Care and Free Market

insurance cost, 2004). The rising costs are bringing hardships to insured and uninsured alike; the single biggest cause for person...

The Impact of Mananged Healthcare on Laboratory Income

also increased the costs of healthcare and became one of the problems of rising costs. The insurance companies over time have so...

U.S. Healthcare System and Important Institutional or Structural Changes

of the consumer and using appropriate marketing strategies can hospital executives ensure greater customer satisfaction and repeat...

Desirable Healthcare and Markets

In a paper consisting of five pages there is skepticism in terms of whether legitimate advancement possibilities actually exist wi...

eHealth Tools of Quality Improvement

inform them as to the quality of care that home care agencies in their region are capable of providing for themselves or family me...

Financial and Managerial Accounting

the companys present and future performance, rather than past history (Managerial accounting - an introduction). They relate only ...

Corporate Crimes

is "attributed to a person who has control over or responsibility for another who negligently causes an injury or otherwise would ...

Use of Restraints in Healthcare

indicates, restraint places health practitioners between the proverbial rock and a hard place. However, there are practice standar...

Culturally Sensitive Nursing/Hispanic Client

(Kemp, 2005). In American mainstream culture, making eye contact is expected, as this indicates that the other person is listening...

Medicalization

the degree to which homosexuality may be a medical condition. The medical profession has since moved on from this approach and the...

Canadian Healthcare System

federal government provides direct health care services to specific demographic groups: "First Nations people living on reserves; ...

Healthcare: The Death of Ivan Ilyich

unnecessary, and the look of importance which implied that if only you put yourself in our hands we will arrange everything - we k...

Healthcare Administration/Conflict & Stress

inadequacies in the standard of patient care due to a clinician refusing "to consult the on call physician or group" due to a cont...