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HEALTHCARE AND NEEDS FOR AN AGING POPULATION

group 85 years and older is now the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population (Dramatic changes, 2006). Furthermore, accordin...

Best Practices and Satisfaction in Health Care

many professionals feel is attached to a strong desire to do the right thing. When organizations are engaging in unethical practic...

On-Site Childcare Programs: The Work Life Benefits

work and the demands of ones personal life is, many researchers say, critical to the establishment and maintenance of a healthy li...

TECHNOLOGY AND HOME HEALTH CARE

patients are in the hospital, using those resources that could be dedicated toward more serious problems). They also mean patients...

California Foster Care Agencies and the Criminal Justice System

for operating in isolation, or for the establishment of laws that are seen as disconnected from the reality of everyday experience...

Literature Review/Diabetic Foot Care

addressing behavior implementation. Shekelle and Vijan (2007) reviewed 105 articles pertaining to the care of diabetes in vulner...

Health Care Marketing - A Binary Approach

purposes of this example, one might consider Southwest General Hospital in San Antonio, Texas. This facility makes for a good exam...

Health Care Funding Alternatives

recently become one of the most controversial and important of all political discussions. Having dominated the debates surrounding...

The Health Care Industry and Electronic Communication

one technologically based communication modality-e-mail, a web-based forum, and so forth- involving patients and health care provi...

Health Care Ethics and Tort Law

what actions are morally right, and which are morally wrong. As such, it is an area of study with a great deal of ambiguity. There...

Cultural Considerations and the U.S. Health Care System

and others is becoming more and more diverse. Mwaura (2006) emphasizes that every culture has experienced a similar evolu...

Postpartum Doula Care

experience" in previous eras (Abramson, 2004, p. 34). This doula program recruits doulas from the community being served. The mode...

How And Why Pricing Affects Access

conditions may worsen and require treatment which will be more costly for the state or healthcare provider. This is unlikely to ha...

Improving Management at Shannondale

economic positions (McGinn and Murr, 2006). All of this development in the past several years has led to a restatement of Shannon...

Closeness and Distance: A Way of Handling Difficult Situations in Daily Care

the strategies that nurses are currently using to address these types of difficult situations. The qualitative approach utilize...

Family Systems/The Postpartum Mother

of family such as the one cited above. In many instances hospitals adhere to the traditional definition, which means that the poli...

A Personal Model of Helping

is how the people who are in treatment, or receiving care, should participate in that care. The Planetree model for example takes...

Aveyard/Believing and Doubting

explained the process further and made it clear that he would perform the catheterization, the man approved. As this indicates, fr...

Hillary Clinton’s Health Care Proposal

reform is the American Health Choices Plan. In it she addresses costs and quality and hits on topics such as long term care, canc...

Patients’ Bill of Rights

is designed to ensure that "Patients have access to needed care" and that healthcare providers are "free to practice medicine with...

Legal Due Diligence

has one location but intends to open a second site, which is the purpose of seeking venture capital. * By-laws of the company alon...

The Ethics of Pricing and Access to Health Care: A Social Justice Issue

problem of expansive pharmaceutical pricing and the social impacts for the nations poor. The Scope of the Problem One of the m...

The Impact of Bioterrorism on the Future of Health Care

to current medicines, or to increase their ability to be spread into the environment" (Miller-Boyle, 2006, p. 6). Miller-Boyle wri...

Caring and the Nurse Practitioner

now regarded as a crucial and defining component of nursing, as caring defines "nursings unique area of practice and provides dire...

Nursing Leadership, Advocacy & Responsibilities

Leadership and management while related are two distinctively different concepts. Leadership can be discerned from simply manageme...

Treating Osteoporosis

and typically occurs by the time a person reaches their 70s. In the U.S., roughly 1.5 million fractures are caused by osteoporosis...

THE RISING COSTS OF HEALTH CARE IN THE UNITED STATES

doctors and hospitals who have no problems charging a patient three dollars for an aspirin tablet. Its also easy to point the fing...

TRICARE: A POLICY ANALYSIS AND REALITY CHECK

allowing the Department of Defense to provide civilian health care to dependents of military service members, TRICARE today has di...

Performance Management through Clinical Supervision of Nurses in the NHS; Professional, Legal and Ethical Perspectives

Furthermore they state that is a strategic approach which relates to all aspects of an organization within the context the culture...

Guillain-Barre Syndrome

and specific therapy" (Newswanger and Warren, 2004, p. 2405). As patients advance through the acute phase of the illness, supporti...