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Health Maintenance Organizations' System Improvements

In three pages this paper examines how HMOs can be improved in order to ensure better care quality. Three sources are cited in th...

Home Health Care Performance Improvement Quality Assessment

In ten pages this literature review on home health care focuses upon performance improvement in a quality assessment that is based...

Health Care Equality

In nine pages the importance of ensuring that high quality health care is received by everyone regardless of socioeconomic positio...

Treatment in Home and in Hospital for Acute Conditions Advantages and Disadvantages

level of problems for inpatients was 20.9% compared to only 8.4% for outpatients (Wilson et al, 2002). When asked to rate the serv...

Coalition Buyers Health Care Action Group

In eleven pages a Minnesota coalition known as Buyers Health Care Action Group is discussed in terms of how it works, its efforts ...

An Efficacy Evaluation of a Private Not for Profit Wellness Center

In four pages the efficacy of this wellness center is evaluated through clinical pathways as a way of improving health care costs ...

Health Care Systems Reengineering

In nineteen pages this paper discusses health care services' infrastructure and considers reengineering and quality improvements t...

Quality of Life and Health Care Policies

In five pages this paper examines public policy with regard to health care in a consideration of whether or not it is improving th...

Health Care Organizations and TQM

the country and that is because for the most part many of the health organizations do utilize Total Quality Management. This mode...

Health Care and Organizational Performance

Zellars and Fiorito commented: "Although being effective seems an obvious requirement of staying in business, organizational effec...

Impact of Insured on St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

pay for treatment that is not covered by insurance and families without insurance are not required to pay (SJCRH, 2008). Furthermo...

Nursing & Mandatory Overtime

expectancy is increasing and more people are surviving serious illness and living longer with chronic illness. At the same time, t...

Nursing Philosophy for Professional Practice

nurses should understand these patients thoroughly, "who they are, where they live and with whom, their current health status and ...

Discussion of Change Theories for Specific Field

The paper begins by briefly identifying and explaining three of the standard change theory/models. The stages of each are named. T...

Nursing Need to Delegate

the nurse is uncertain of which tasks are appropriate to delegation, as well as the skill level of UAPs, their reluctance becomes ...

Family Health Nursing

the "niche were multiple members encounter and respond to disease and illness across the life course" (Denham, 2003, p. 143). Nurs...

Family Nurse Practitioner

either ill or injured, and therefore requires the aid of health care professionals. One might also feel that "person" underscores ...

Increased Taxes and the Affordable Care Act

This paper questions the economics of ObamaCare. Americans are benefiting but others are paying dearly for those benefits. There...

Quality Indicators and Nurse/Patient Ratios

literature and also "analysis of ICD-9-CM codes," which were reviewed by a "clinician panel," offering specific IQs that address i...

Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing

management dilemma" and is written by Orly Toren and Nurith Wagner. The authors discuss different ethical dilemmas nurse face dail...

Dementia

emotional (limbic) memories are affected, and the last group of memories to be affected as the "motor or more reptilian memories,"...

Interview With Nurse CEO

A very large meta-analysis was performed by the American Library Association in 2007 to determine the most important traits for an...

Health Care and Information Technology Utilization Increases

matter crucial in todays health care industry. The health maintenance organization (HMO) was born of an effort to reduce the rate...

Rapid Response Team: Quick Recognition And Intervention Of Problems At Va Medical Centers

being more capable of acting proactively and preventively. The philosophy of nursing is something much grander and more complex t...

Program Proposal for Diabetes Education

proposed method of resolution is to design, develop and evaluate a clinical, evidence-based "diabetic education program to increas...

Quality of Life, Nursing, and Concept Analysis

of happiness, contentment or relief, or something above ordinary existence. The patient should do more than subsist. 4. Care shoul...

Review of an Article on Nursing Research

to examine whether womens social roles mediate the impact of heart surgery on their psychological well-being" (Plach and Heidrich,...

Quality of Life and the Role of Nursing

Conroy and Nottoli (1999) report the case of Henry, an irascible octogenarian who easily was the most difficult patient in the ski...

Responsibilities of Nursing Directors

In five pages Directors of Nursing are examined in terms of their many responsibilities which include business management, human r...

Increasing Health Care Costs

The health care situation is rather complex, but solutions can be implemented once the problem is thoroughly understood. This pape...