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Applying Economic Term Definitions to Health Care

period. It is determined by a number of factors including income, tastes and the price of complementary and substitute goods." In ...

U.S. Healthcare Policy

of many attempts at generating what would hopefully evolve into a comprehensive U.S. healthcare policy for all Americans, but the ...

State Statutes and Civil Monetary Penalties

or incentive for operating in a cost effective manner where possible. Medicare and private insurers always look at the case...

Homeless and Health Care

problems "are extremely high among the homeless population" (NCH Fact Sheet #8, 2005). In fact, homeless persons are far more li...

Legalizing Euthanasia in Canada

clear pronouncement in the case noted above that assisted suicide remains illegal, several additional cases have either ended in a...

Healthcare, Change, and Leadership

organisational changes fail at a rate of 29% (Maurer, 1997). Reengineering is higher at 30% and of most concern is the figure for ...

Turkey's Market Failure

When looking at market failure four main potential causes have been identified, these are market power abuse, the influence of ext...

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...

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...

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...

HR Employee Benefits and the Impact of Rising Employer Costs

15.4% in 2003/4 (Anonymous, 2004). The approach has been to look for new ways of satisfying the same needs, such as the use of gen...

Online Education/Professional Development

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

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...

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...

Solutions for Health Care Staffing Problems in Rural America

Resource Management Systems," 2007). Acquisition relates to recruiting employees as well as the selection process ("Contemporary P...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Problem With Socialized Medicine

health care plan. Yet, the HMO does not engage in rationing, but contemporary models of socialized medicine do see waiting lines f...

Healthcare Power and Leadership

to be appropriate for healthcare. Individuals have knowledge and expertise regardless of their level of certification and need to...

Healthcare and the Dangers of Nosocomial Infections

services. However, the greatest cost of all has been to human life, because nosocomial infections have resulted in patient deaths...

Public Policy and Healthcare

attempts by private institutions have been unsuccessful in addressing a problem. While administrated separately, Moon (2005) not...

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 ...

Nurse Practitioner Role/The Present, The Future

innumerable national health system in meeting the demands for primary care in todays society (Main, Dunn and Kendall, 2007). NPs...

Illness and Culture in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent by Julia Alvarez

differences between cultures consist of variation in their main pattern in terms of these five dimensions and that these differenc...

America's Ailing Healthcare as Depicted in Michael Moore's Documentary 'Sicko'

have reattached since he could not afford the cost of both. According to Rick, the hospital priced the reattachment of his middle...