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occur in an EMS vehicle in the summer months (McElroy, 2002). Such degradation can occur with no visible changes to the medicatio...

instruments not trustworthy? This is just another meaningless slogan, a cousin of zero defects" (Deming, 1986; p. 66). The...

100 percent and also to create a neighborhood health and daycare facility. Another proposal is the creation of a preventative diag...

its founding in the late 18th century, the United States has opened its borders to people from a variety of countries and cultures...

a serious or highly unusual medical problem, a hospital devoted to the care of patients with similar conditions may be preferred. ...

In eleven pages an organizationis first considered and then organization theory is applied to strategically managing and building ...

the "number of initial admissions with at least one readmission divided by total discharges excluding deaths" (Lagoe, et al., 1999...

respected academically and is in the business of training future health care providers as it serves the local community. All "att...

continues to battle against the ongoing nursing shortage. Today, the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that ...

2005). Theres little doubt, however, that spending in Medicaid has been on the rise - and this has constituted a huge problem (Bec...

data needing a broad bandwidth, but also the need for security as patient files are confidential and security measures are not onl...

to improving standards of public health, noting that the infant mortality rate was reduced significantly between 1980 and 1993, an...

wrong leg amputated. Ben Kolb was eight years old when he died during "minor" surgery due to a drug mix-up. These horrific cases t...

these issues(LaBar, 1997). While OSHA as an organization is necessary, it perhaps oversteps its bounds and makes arbitrary rules, ...

jobs. The evidence appears to indicate that the survivors will also suffer. There is a range of literature that outlines responses...

processed, but also in terms of the culture where employees feel appreciated. They are paid more than the average wage, on top of ...

All of the results of this reengineering, however, were not as positive. The process had not taken into consideration the fact th...

HMOs now are listed as the responsible parties for 97 percent of all Americans who have insurance coverage and are not covered thr...

of the market (Christensen, Bohmer and Kenagy, 2000). The area of disruptive technology is the same one through which personal co...

parameters of his perspective and goals, and, specifically, refers to the unique orientation of nursing. "Nurses encounter patient...

employers are increasing employees portion of premium payments or ceasing to contribute anything at all. Many employers have ceas...

to the fact that it placed requirements on HMOs that were not in place on indemnity carriers, it actually served to reduce the abi...

therefore, highly desirable to have a variety of types of LTC settings. Furthermore, alternatives to institutionalized care can o...

Managed care has caused an upheaval in the way medical services are delivered in this country. This paper discusses the largest su...

In five pages the TQM management strategy is applied to a scenario for transforming doctors into managers with a community hospita...

In two pages this paper examines how hospital administrators and staff nurses share medical liability in a definition of the term ...

In five pages this essay considers the anarchist art of Ed Kienholz in terms of the artist's attitudes and style of composition wi...

for medium and even smaller individual hospitals. Hospital administrators must both understand and communicate the fact that the ...

In six pages this paper examines the increasing U.S. practice of merging hospitals in an overview of the pros and cons of this pra...

In five pages a hospital environment is considered in a discussion of a family centered care approach with pediatric nursing being...