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districts in the nation had at least one alternative school and about 88 percent of high school districts had at least one alterna...

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...

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...

with advancing age. Care providers cannot set lower fees for uninsured individuals and then penalize the insured and their insure...

of all of these organizations is to help provide quality behavioral health care while containing costs for its members. APS...

to body changes due to issues of self-image and acceptance speaks to a very vulnerable group of individuals whose focus is more up...

since 1947. The healthcare system is actually run by "its 10 provinces and three territories, but is governed by federal guideline...

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...

not want his father informed), presenting a rationale for signing a health care proxy becomes extremely problematic. Guidelines us...

protection. It seems that the purpose of the old system was typical as the facility needed communications. However, in health care...

of the true nature of their illnesses. While keeping such facts from the patients may be considered merciful it does, at times, en...

Most of those insured by third-party payers have had all or part of their healthcare premiums paid by employers. Competitive pres...

for further self-harm to occur. Pembrooke and Smith recommend, for example, that triage staff assume that even minor injuries repr...

state of the art technology. Their lives will be saved above the others. It is somewhat like the scenario when the Titanic went do...

in the world where health care is able to benefit from the best and the latest technologies (Improving Quality in a Changing Healt...

U.S. government (The Malcolm, 2002). Originally a national award for manufacturing industries, the award was expanded to include h...

issues along a continuum of health and good health is defined as a "state of complete physical, mental and social well-being" (Ada...

How governments accomplish this purpose, of course, varies considerably. In Great Britain, the government via the National Health...

at regular prices, but interest increases when the store drops the price from $50 to $5. In other words, demand increases when pr...

scientific investigation and treatment of trauma and/or death of victims of abuse, violence, criminal activity, and traumatic acci...

with them to the first American Colonies, and mostly served as a model as to who would provide what services in the early, fledgli...

from an advanced practice nurse. Patients value the nurse practitioner (NP) as a trustworthy source of medical information that a...

a problem that is difficult to define adequately. There is much competition in the health field, and in the mental health field t...

back for treatment and who would be left behind and not treated. In the 1800s, unless a patient was dying those in the emergency r...

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...

find help through federal programs, although there are problems of access within these systems. If the federal or state government...