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Communication in Healthcare

for any one patient can be almost overwhelming. Fortunately, numerous improvements are being made in health care that will better...

Status of American Education

of the many areas of education that has suffered due to overburdening public schools (Croddy 30). In a research study that involve...

Disease Management/Hypertension

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

Youth Suicide and Depression; Conventional Approaches To Treatment

a major relapse when they are adults (Olfson et al, 2003). Therefore treatment at an early stage may help prevent later episodes. ...

Tax on Goods

new cars. The federal excise taxes include a "gas guzzler" tax that is "imposed on new cars that fail to meet federal fuel economy...

Philosophy of Healthcare Management

justified. As they expect to see signs of slothfulness and unprofessional conduct, this is precisely what they find. Their expecta...

Special Education Legislation And Impact

something to fear" (Forest and Pearpoint, n.d.). What we do know is that it costs about twice as much to educate a child with dis...

Book Review: "Leading At A Higher Level" By Blanchard

the most successful and productive leaders know clout means having the ability to empower workers and achieve goals. Things a lea...

Book Review: "Leading At A Higher Level" By Ken Blanchard

following six leadership principles: 1) shared power and high involvement; 2) shared information and open communication; 3) energi...

Technology and Is Used for Operations Management in Healthcare Practice

also changing. In the past the systems were being used in a more limited manner, with more emphasis placed on aspects such as busi...

Managed Care, HMOs & Evolution over Last Decade

the rate of such hospital mergers. One of these trends was the "phenomenon of Columbia/HCA," a for-profit hospital system that man...

Gilmer v. Interstate/Johnson Lane Corporation

law and made arbitration significantly stronger. In an interpretation, the ADR Institute explains the effect of Gilmer this way: ...

Impact of HIV/AIDS on Nursing

noted that cases of a rare lung infection, pneumocystis carinni pneumonia, had occurred in Los Angeles and also that three young m...

Global Warming and Sea Level Rise

the Institute for the Study of Planet Earth at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and his colleagues have developed computer mod...

Refusal of Palliative Care/Bioethics

this incident may have contributed to her divorce. It is also true that her mother has had a problem with alcoholism for over twen...

Increasing FDI Levels to Libya

research such as that by the OECD as well as UNCTAD both indicates that there are positive benefits (Erdilek, 2003). In 1995 in a...

Ethical, Legal Views on Healthcare

expanded upon, specifically, in the Nurse Practice Acts that govern nursing in the individual states. New understanding relations...

Law, Policy, Research and Results in Domestic Violence

the use or attempted use of physical force or the threatened use of a deadly weapon (Section 922 (g)[9])" (Federal Domestic Violen...

Media Perception & Canadian Healthcare System

the director of health system performance studies at Fraser Institute, was quoted as saying that "It is irresponsible for a wealth...

Preparing for a Pandemic of H5N1 on the University Level

Scarborough Campus presents specific concerns in terms of a pandemic outbreak of H5N1. As of the 2005/2006 school year th...

Culturally Competent Nursing Strategies

care is to formulate a health care system and workforce that possesses the skill and understanding required to deliver quality hea...

Vote for John Edwards

called for Congress to use it control of financing to stop escalation of the war effort in Iraq (Walsh, 2007). At that time, Edwar...

Global Warming/Consensus in Newspaper Accounts

50 years" ("Global Warming"). In 2001, a similar UN report said that human activity had "likely played a role" in global warming...

AIDS in the US

US to a disproportionate degree. These groups include African Americans, Hispanics, and minority women and children (Dancy and Dut...

The Functions of the Federal Reserve

equates to the setting of interest rates for federal and treasury securities (Federal Reserve, 2007). The impact is due to the w...

The Political and Financial Impacts of Health Coverage

separation of Medicaid eligibility from assistance programs. In fact, this act was designed to increase the access for low-income...

National Security Threat Levels

needs to prepare. The standard protocol for a green national threat conditions includes taking this otherwise down time to re-eva...

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...

Improving High School Graduation Rates for Texas Minorities in the Presence of Exit-Level Testing

U.S. District Court Judge Edward C. Prado observed: "The receipt of an education that does...

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...