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Controlled Study of Gastrooesophageal Reflux Disease in Children and Oral Health

is clear that the issue, as Linnet et al state, merits further investigation. Lazarchik and Filler (1997) point out that dental er...

The Importance of Forensic Nursing

departments (Courson, 2004). It isnt that nurses have not been serving in these roles, they have but today, nurses receive speci...

Glenwood Resource Center Quality Measures

sets for itself for assistance in achieving its mission include customer focus, excellence, accountability and teamwork (Strategic...

Nursing Issues and the Health Issues of the West Family

her, per se, but rather with her expectations of Madeline, which are not age appropriate. The scenario says that Madeline knows be...

Call Tracking and Shand's Health Care

referrals, and so on. Messages are recorded by human workers, on message pads, then the message is placed in the appropriate locat...

Nursing and Entrepreneurial Opportunities

for APNs. One such path is to be a nurse anesthetist, who is a licensed APN who is considered to be using personal professional ju...

Best Media Selection

after work. This alone is no sufficient to determine the target market and as such the media that can be used. If we look more c...

Restraint Uses in Psychiatric Nursing

Yet both organizations also observe that, sometimes, it is necessary to use seclusion and restraint, as a last resort, in order to...

Health Care Industry, Confidentiality, and Whistle Blowing

importance of whistle blowers has been realised in the last decade, those on the inside of an organisation have the advantage of p...

New Jersey Law and Genetic Testing

have a disease, rather then the disease itself. ` These two cases are not rare. They represent a prevailing concern of legislatur...

Philadelphia and Hunger Issues

Philadelphia County in 1999 illustrates a preponderance of lower income/higher poverty rates than the attributed to the overall st...

2 Studies on Orphaned Africans Reviewed

2008, 2005). In Namibia alone, officials expect that 13 percent of all children under the age of 15 will be orphans by 2006 (Aids...

Child Development and the Impact of Socioeconomic Status

("Chaotic," 2004). This is of course known. However, there is a stigma for those with low IQ scores. Therefore, because of this an...

Training of Nursing Staff and Its Rationale

learned long ago the value of yet another Deming (1986) exhortation, that of continuous improvement. By definition, the concept i...

All About the Alexander Technique

(Goldberg, 2004). Alexanders clients found that his Technique not only helped them with breathing problems, but also a number of...

How Regulatory Agencies have Improved Outcomes

(Chen et al, 2003). Accreditation has been identified as a measure of quality, but whether this results in measurable difference...

PATIENT SAFETY AND CONSUMER-DIRECTED HEALTH CARE

had pushed through legislation mandating mandatory medical error reporting (Hosford, 2008). Additionally, and perhaps more importa...

Health Beliefs of African Americans

being mentored by an elder; 2) those who received their ability to heal as a divine gift; and 3) those who were born with the abil...

Health Care: Questions On Two Articles

There is no question HMOs are in need of some major improvement efforts. Time and time again, anecdotal accounts of personal ongo...

Evaluation of Usablity.gov

which entices the user to explore further. The target audience for this site is quite broad. As indicated in the introduction to ...

The Obama and McCain Health Care Reform Plans

remainder in expanded Health Savings Accounts" (Straight talk, 2008). As for the currently uninsured, McCains plan is to work with...

Assessment of Independent Living

she does "light housekeeping," which is also not consistent with someone who needs assistance getting out of bed. However, the stu...

Family Systems Theory

in psychoanalytical theory away from a focus on individual and towards a focus on the whole. While psychoanalysts had previously ...

TELEMEDICINE AND VALUE TO THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

radiologist must travel to a rural hospital to examine the images (Gamble et al, 2004). If he or she cant travel, then a courier w...

Alcohol Abuse and Public Health

(Time for coordinated action on alcohol, 2004). It is particularly dangerous to young people, who are more likely than anyone else...

Six Issues in Public Health

way through a crowd of smokers as they enter or leave the building (Smoke-free one year later, 2008). Smoking is a recognized caus...

Marketing and Health Care

with more knowledge than they may have had in the past. On the other hand, as they say, too much knowledge can be dangerous. Physi...

Advanced Nursing Practice and Family Theory: Lessons From the Movie “Thirteen”

begins using drugs, stealing, experimenting with sex, and seeking out more radical means of self mutilation. Each of these change...

Universal Health Plan -Stakeholder Communication

television commercials to scare the public (Greene, 2008). The couple, Harry and Louise, was sitting at their kitchen table mockin...

Social Workers in Mental Health Services

would have to provide those benefits in the same way as benefits provided to all other medical and surgical procedures covered by ...