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characteristics of the group, interpersonal relationships within the group and the characteristics of the culture. The leader must...
goes way beyond the paradigm of nursing as simply a "handmaiden" to physicians. The nursing professional is required to know virtu...
responsible for most health care expenditures, merely because of their age and the increased need for direct care with advancing a...
the problem and to eliminate it where possible. Nester (1998) quantifies the extent of the problem relating that an estimated 1,2...
process is made more difficult by cultural and linguistic barriers (Murty, 2002). These women frequently bear the brunt of fulfill...
issues along a continuum of health and good health is defined as a "state of complete physical, mental and social well-being" (Ada...
its critics -- has been a goal of the U.S. government for many, many years and, for the most part, has had the support of most of ...
U.S. government (The Malcolm, 2002). Originally a national award for manufacturing industries, the award was expanded to include h...
How governments accomplish this purpose, of course, varies considerably. In Great Britain, the government via the National Health...
providers fees be "normal and customary," and those care providers who have attempted to set lower fees for those without any safe...
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...
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...
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...
with advancing age. Care providers cannot set lower fees for uninsured individuals and then penalize the insured and their insure...
medical education, it changed all aspects of medical care and the relationships that exist between physician and patient (pp. 395)...
state of the art technology. Their lives will be saved above the others. It is somewhat like the scenario when the Titanic went do...
for further self-harm to occur. Pembrooke and Smith recommend, for example, that triage staff assume that even minor injuries repr...
which is where the AIDS population appears to lose its right to privacy. Schmidt (2005) notes that more currently, the Kennedy-Ka...
whoever the client might be, that is, an individual, family, group or community. The third provision indicates that nurses are als...
says that families have been sorely neglected as a great deal of nursing practice continues to focus on individuals (Denham, 2003)...
Medicine has shifted from the Cartesian way of viewing illness, injury and disease as components of a machine-like body to one whi...
goals and interventions which are compatible with those identified in "Healthy People 2010". Eight assessment parameters will be ...
disease, parents first must have access to health care services and then utilize such services. Marshall (2003) points to the im...
evaluating information (including assumptions and evidence) related to the issue, considering alternatives ... and drawing conclus...
especially in at-risk populations, can reduce the level of disability and "compress" it into a shorter period close to the end of ...
of society, ignored. They are often referred to as the underserved population. According to Gallup polls it seems that out...