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Massachusetts General Hospital and its Patient Care Delivery Model

the mid-1990s and later. The hospitals purpose in implementing the PCDM was to decrease costs of both operation and labor, while ...

An Assessment on UK Health Needs

Associated with this s the need to identify markers of health inequality, which may then be cross referenced with the levels of et...

Healthcare and Dictates of Culture

a model in which not only the biological components of illness were considered but also the psychological and sociological compone...

Analysis of Costs of Decubitus Ulcers in Elder Care Facilities

Furthermore, if the ulcers end up in hospitalization, the nursing home is responsible for those costs as well. Even if the patient...

Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and the Inclusion of a Child Life Therapist

adding a child life therapist for a neonatal intensive care unit (ICU). This person would be a trained therapist, with the sole pu...

Advanced Practice Nursing Care and Ida Jean Orlando's Theory

to identify and to relate in terms of actual patient care. Ida Jean Orlando created a conceptual view of the nursing process whic...

Public Health Issues and Sulphur Dioxide

that "number counting and statistical techniques are not the central issues" (p. 64). This is especially true when applying persp...

College Students and Anorexia

readily been recognized that early detection and treatment of these disorders is the best way to end the chronic and often debilit...

World Health Impact of Dust Storms

far as the mouth, nose or throat. Finer particles by contrast are able to reach deeper into the respiratory system, more easily i...

Antismoking Approaches and Using Beattie's 4 Quadrants Health Promotion Model

The model reflects different approaches, for example, the causes of illness may need to be focused on an individual or on a collec...

Health Issues, Diet, and the Media

There are those who believe that advertising can actually be beneficial in promoting health and nutrition; after all, television e...

Overview of Hammersmith and Fulham Primary Care Trust

the development and introduction of the NHS (Portillo, 1998). However, since that time there have been many changes and a range of...

Community Mental Health Practice and Communication

to three days more than 20 years ago. We ruefully joke that some managed care plans only allow new mothers to be hospitalized on ...

Janet Gonzalez Mena's Multicultural Issues in Child Care

Many teachers use this direct eye contact as a way of gathering their students attention, but if this goes against ones upbringing...

Overview of Pilates Exercise Fitness

similar to that of much more strenuous exercise programs (Anonymous, 1999). The inspiring combination of Zen meditation and...

Corporate Conspiracy of 'Junk Food'

had a disease, there would be a widespread and enthusiastic campaign to find a cure. However, because obesity is not considered a ...

Born Unwanted Examined Critically

boys would prove to have greater difficulties than the girls in the study. Another hypothesis was that "the effect of unwan...

Case Study on Mental Health and Social Work

which are applicable to Lisas case, but also the ways in which they can best be enacted, given these constraints. One of the most ...

Consumers and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

This paper considers the relative impact of Obamacare. Texans in particular have not always benefited from the federal mandate on...

America's Law Enforcement/Mental Health Project/Speaker notes

This paper presents the speaker notes to khmhclaw.ppt, which is a PowerPoint presentation on US Senate bill 1865, America's Law En...

Breach of PHI Confidentiality

This paper discusses patient personal health information (PHI) in terms of a major breach in confidentiality. HIPAA regulations an...

Collaboration, Accountability, Improving Quality of Care

This research paper pertains to the challenges confronting a hospital and the manner in which the hospital resolved them. Five pag...

Importance of Family Health and Fitness

This paper discusses the importance of family health and fitness, focusing particularly on the importance of regular physical acti...

Integrating EHR into Practice: Nursing's Role

This paper discusses Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and the role that nurses play in implementing and utilizing these record sy...

Chapter Questions, Theory Application

This paper pertains to chapter questions that relate to studies that utilized theory in intervention development that address heal...

The Importance of Vaccines

This paper argues that vaccines are an imperative component of human health. Failures and controversy do not negate the many adva...

Public Health and Food Safety

Families with young children, in particular, should be educated as to how to avoid the risks of food born illnesses. Community he...

Health Communication Information Strategies Overview

This paper offers an overview of health communication campaigns, their effectiveness and the strategies they utilize. Five pages i...

Treating Childhood Obesity

This 10 page paper gives an overview of childhood obesity. This paper includes how combining mental health treatment with family h...

Health Promotion, Nutrition and Behavior

This research paper pertains to issues associated with health behavior theories. Six pages in length, seven sources are cited. ...