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government and distort the issues by using unethical practices. Their dealings with government officials are sometimes damaging t...

at least not accessing the system as much as they could. For example, it was reported in BMJ that a telephone healthcare service o...

(HMOs), the explosive growth of Medicare and Medicare abuses and the resulting "crackdown" on Medicare policies and procedures. T...

at where it was spent in 1997 20.7% was spent on inpatient care, 25.6 on out-patient care and 14% on pharmaceuticals (Anonymous, 2...

in the world where health care is able to benefit from the best and the latest technologies (Improving Quality in a Changing Healt...

medical education, it changed all aspects of medical care and the relationships that exist between physician and patient (pp. 395)...

in the western United States (Cleverley, Cleverley, & Song, 2012). Such institutions are typified by the primary goal of "sharehol...

Hospital, a "450 bed not for profit acute care hospital" (Gapenski, 2007). Lastly, of course, because much health care access in...

in the overall quality of care delivered by community health nurses (CHNs) is providing end-of-life care that is holistic and cong...

Obamas 2012 State of the Union Address portrays the view that the nation is much better than it was before Obama took office. Thi...

to gain an executive position immediately upon graduation, possibly in a specialty area such as government relations, medical staf...

there is a pressing need to "make clinical goals specific, roles explicit, [and] processes clear" (Phillips, 2005). For instance, ...

The writer looks at a scenario where a home care health organization wants to introduce an electronic patient records system. The ...

information flows between healthcare facilities; the bottom line is that legislation will have to be concerned not simply with pro...

days and Paul finally became upset and said that he would like to help the girl but her health insurance policy that her owners pa...

in the current minimum wage of $7.25, which became effective on July 24, 2009 (WHD, 2011). This history is also characterized by t...

who were in need of an epidural block in order to anesthetize the severe birth-related pain. Unable to hand over the several hund...

As a socially committed citizen who addresses health needs of the local, national, and global community, nursing will forever be h...

sense that it is actively intended to cause harm, but negligence occurs when it is established that any reasonable person would ha...

male smoker, who was admitted for surgery for a right inguinal hernia. At 99 kgs and just 153 cm tall, Mr. Taylors Body Mass Inde...

first essential step in the pursuit of any lifelong goal such as this is to develop a "five year plan". In the development of su...

and scientific research, general regulations prohibiting the cloning of humans for reproductive purposes have been applied interna...

without mentioning their love affair with olive oil, and the esteem which this precious ingredient holds in this culture (Miller, ...

health of the individual and to their success in recuperation. The Association for Spirit at Work is comprised of medical profess...

dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...

Most of those insured by third-party payers have had all or part of their healthcare premiums paid by employers. Competitive pres...

for further self-harm to occur. Pembrooke and Smith recommend, for example, that triage staff assume that even minor injuries repr...

state of the art technology. Their lives will be saved above the others. It is somewhat like the scenario when the Titanic went do...

the challenge of numerous social problems throughout its history (Jansson, 2000). During the colonial period, indentured servants ...

on a positive path. Although I have considered other areas in psychology, as I believe that my qualities are conducive to the coun...