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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...

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...

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...

Disease Management/Hypertension

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

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...

Medicalization

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Canadian Healthcare System

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

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...

Online Education/Professional Development

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

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...

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...

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...

Health Care, HR Departments, and Government Regulation

offer such an important and expensive benefit if they were not required to do so by law. When an individual starts a company, he...

Healthcare Decisions and Economic Considerations

direct care with advancing age. Care providers cannot set lower fees for uninsured individuals and then penalize the insured and ...

Overview of Chinese Beliefs

2002). In addition, dietary practices in Asia are often associated with religious practices and customs (Gifford, 2002). R...

Overview of STAT

In six pages this paper discusses STAT order designations and its usage by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Org...

Health Care Workders and Accountability Arenas

paralleled by the employers duty towards the worker. Legal accountability is that which is delineated by the civil and criminal la...

Hospital Cost Drivers

the importance of the demographic mix, the provision of some services will be less expensive to provide, For example, where there ...